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Los Angeles, California: United DC-8 Jet

Retired passenger jet is propped on some poles next to the former aeronautics wing of the California Science Museum.

California Science Museum

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700 Exposition Park Dr, Los Angeles, CA
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California Science Museum, south of Exposition Blvd., west side of Figueroa St.
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DC8 passenger jet.

United DC-8 Jet

Hidden behind the California Science Museum sits a United Airlines DC-8 in all its glory. The building it is in front of used to be the space wing of the Science Museum. Now the building is empty and all that is left is this plane and a Lockheed F-104.

[MattandKasey, 01/01/2012]

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