As part of the moving process, two aircraft (a Douglas C-124 Globemaster II and C-133 Cargomaster) were relocated to the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. On May 16, 1998, after a $33 million grass roots capital campaign, the museum moved indoors to a location more accessible to the public, between Omaha and Lincoln, that allowed the aircraft to be protected from the elements to which they had previously been exposed. Ownership of the museum transferred from the Air Force to the state of Nebraska in 1970. Over the following years, the outdoor museum's name changed to the Strategic Air Command Museum or SAC Museum. General Curtis LeMay's vision of a museum that preserved historic aircraft had become a reality. The museum, then located at Offutt, began with its first airplane in 1959 as the Strategic Aerospace Museum. became the headquarters of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command in 1948, and continues as the headquarters of U.S. Offutt Air Force Base, south of Omaha and adjacent to Bellevue, Nebraska. The objective of the museum is to preserve and display historic aircraft, missiles, and space vehicles, and provide educational resources. It is located near Ashland, Nebraska, along Interstate 80 southwest of Omaha. The Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum is a museum focusing on aircraft and nuclear missiles of the United States Air Force during the Cold War.
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