South Dakota Air and Space Museum, Rapid City, South Dakota

B-52 Stratofortress

B-25 Mitchell

F-111 "Aardvark"

B-1B Lancer

On the way from the Black Hills to the Badlands, we saw a sign for the South Dakota Air and Space at Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City, South Dakota. The sign showed a B-1B Lancer at the museum so of course we had to stop.

We had planned to visit the Badlands and the national park facility featuring a minuteman missile silo that day so we opted out on the tour of the air force base which also featured a visit to a missile silo. In hindsight, we should have taken a tour since the missile silo national park is closed on Sunday.

It was a nice museum, especially for the price....FREE!