Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum je muzeum v New York City ležící na North River (New York-New Jersey) Pier 86 na západní straně Manhattanu. Muzeum se skládá z letadlové lodi z druhé světové války USS Intrepid, jaderné ponorky USS Growler, and a Lockheed A-12 supersonic reconnaissance plane (often mistaken for the later SR-71 Blackbird).
It is located in a tourist area, next to the New York Passenger Ship Terminal, the Circle Line pier, and near the New York consulate of the People's Republic of China and a heliport.
The museum serves as a hub for the annual Fleet Week events. Visiting warships dock at the cruise ship terminals to the north, and events are held on the museum grounds and the deck of the Intrepid.
Muzeum prošlo v letech 2006 - 2008 důkladnou renovací.
History
Muzeum bylo otevřeno v roce 1982 na Pier 86 after Zachary Fisher, a prominent New York real estate developer and philanthropist, succeeded in saving the Intrepid from the scrap heap in 1978. The USS Intrepid became a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
V září 2001 sloužila letadlová loď jako dočasné polní ústředí FBI pro vyšetřování útoků z 11. září.
Renovace v letech 2006-2008
On October 1, 2006, the Intrepid closed for repairs and renovations to herself and her pier. Intrepid was moved down the Hudson by tugboat to The Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor, New Jersey (previously the Military Ocean Terminal) to undergo restoration.
Pier 86, temporarily bereft of exhibits
The scheduled move was delayed on November 6, 2006 when the ship's propellers stuck in the thick Hudson River mud, preventing the assembled tugboats from moving the ship out of her berth. A second successful attempt was made on December 5, 2006 after extensive dredging operations. The aircraft carrier was later floated to Staten Island where her museum facilities were upgraded and expanded before returning to her renovated pier in Manhattan.
The carrier was towed back into place on the Hudson River on October 2, 2008 and reopened to the public on November 8. Additional aircraft would be displayed on the flight and hanger decks and the British Concorde was moved from a barge into an exhibit space on the pier.
Vybrané expozice
- USS Growler (1989), a diesel electric submarine which carried out nuclear deterrent patrols armed with Regulus missiles.
- USS Edson (1989), a Forrest Sherman class destroyer replaced by a supersonic Concorde airliner in 2004.
- British Airways Concorde G-BOAD (2004), on display on a barge at the museum.
- USCGC Tamaroa (WAT/WMEC-166), a former Navy tug-turned-cutter which was released by the Intrepid museum and is now a museum ship in Baltimore.
- The "Intrepid" houses a large collection of aircraft including a British Royal Navy "Supermarine Scimitar", Navy F-14 Tomcat,an Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon, a Marine Corps AV-8 Harrier, a Lockheed A-12 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft (predecessor of the SR-71), a French Dassault Étendard IV, and a Polish MiG-21. The helicopter collection includes two Vietnam-era UH-1 Hueys, and two AH-1 Cobra gunships - a Marine Corps AH-1J Sea Cobra, and a fully restored Army AH-1 Cobra .
- Armoured fighting vehicles captured from Iraq during the Gulf War
Midtown Manhattan
- Hotel Pennsylvania
- Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
- Madison Square Garden
