Saxon Aerospace Museum

This modest, volunteer-run museum recounts milestones in experimental flight testing in the surrounding desert, including the first breaking of the sound barrier, the first hypersonic flight and the first space-shuttle landing. Its collection includes an F-4 fighter jet, an XLR-8 rocket engine and flight suits and helmets. You may have seen the museum in the nationally distributed print ads for the latest North Face ski jacket styles. The North Face Company chose this location due to the marketing director's association with the facility, plus the cool aircraft made a fascinating backdrop for their products, which are seen as the top of the line in terms of warmth, durability and fashion.
It was named for the late Colonel Vernon Parker Saxon Jr, a vice commander at the nearby Edwards Airforce Base's Flight Test Center.
The Colonel Vernon P. Saxon Jr. Aerospace Museum is located next to the Twenty Mule Team Museum in downtown Boron and serves the public as an educational facility dedicated to preserving flight history and flight research performed over Boron and the surrounding Aerospace Valley. Via Saxon Aerospace Museum