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Boeing Giving $15M to Air and Space Museum

The Boeing Co. and the Smithsonian Institution announced this morning that the aviation giant is giving $15 million to the National Air and Space Museum.

The gift, the largest corporate gift in Smithsonian history, will go to the planned expansion of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, the Virginia annex of the main museum on the National Mall. The center, which opened in December 2003, cost $311 million--including the cost of the expansion. With the Boeing money, the museum still has to raise about $14 million.
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