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National Vigilance Park

WHERE: Next to National Cryptologic Museum in Annapolis Junction, MD

WHEN: Dawn to Dusk

WHAT: Historic surveillance aircraft

If this park has a single goal, it’s to help Americans appreciate the appropriate use of covert surveillance, its pivotal role through history, and those who risked their own lives to accomplish it. Many of these lives could not be properly honored for years after their deaths. Now a C-130 aircraft serves as the centerpiece to the Vigilance Park. It is painted to resemble Flight 60528, which was brought down in 1958 after accidentally flying into Soviet airspace. Other vintage surveillance aircraft grace the rest of the park, including a vintage C-130 from 1957. Even the trees in the park are meant to represent airframes that were lost during vital missions. Throughout the park you’ll find signs and benches explaining everything you see.

 

Other Maryland Attractions: National Cryptologic Museum | National Vigilance Park | Surratt House Museum

Washington DC attractions: Arlington National Cem. | Capitol Hill | FDR Memorial | Illuminations Tour | International Spy Museum | Jefferson Memorial | Korean War Memorial | Lincoln Memorial | National Cryptologic Museum | National Law Enforcement Memorial | National Law Enforcement Museum | National Museum of Crime & Punishment | Smithsonian Air & Space | Smithsonian African Art | Smithsonian American Art | Smithsonian Mus. of History | Smithsonian Native American | The Pentagon | The Supreme Court | U.S. Holocaust Memorial Mus. | U.S. Marine Corps Memorial | U.S. Naval Observatory | Vietnam War Memorial | Washington Monument | White House Tours | White House Visitors Center | White House Photo Op

 

 
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