Page "Washington Dulles International Airport" Paragraph 10

* On June 12, 1983, the Space Shuttle Enterprise " landed " at Dulles atop a modified Boeing 747 after touring Europe and before returning to Edwards AFB.

Two years later, Enterprise returned and was placed in a storage hangar near Runway 12 / 30 to await the construction of a planned expansion to the National Air and Space Museum.

Enterprise left Dulles on April 27, 2012, for its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.