While a new American Airlines is taking shape under a merger with US Airways, on Saturday the airline’s museum celebrated 20 years of chronicling the legacy of the company and the aviation industry.

WHY IT RATES: For travel agents working with clients who love aviation history, a visit to the American Airlines museum is a great addition to any itinerary.-Donald Wood, Breaking News Senior Writer.

Model planes hang from the ceiling of the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum on Thursday, August 23, 2018 in Fort Worth. The newly renovated museum reopens Labor Day Weekend.

On National Aviation Day, American Airlines honors the incredible achievements of the aviation industry and reflects on the boundless potential it holds for the future. In a field where innovation and ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Visitors to the newly renovated American Airlines’ C.R. Smith Museum can sit at the controls of an MD-80 cockpit.

American supports several endeavors that offer hands-on instruction and interactive learning for young minds, including the American Airlines CR Smith Museum's award-winning Aviation STEM Summer Camp.

The museum also houses the best collection of historic and contemporary American aircraft on display outside the U.S. and Canada, with some of the planes dramatically suspended in the air.

The final flight of American Airlines N259AA was only about 8 feet in the air over a distance of 40 feet, ... Lori Moffitt, a worker at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium, ...