National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (U.S. Air Force Museum)

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, is the world’s largest military aviation museum. With free admission and parking, the museum features more than 350 aerospace vehicles and missiles and thousands of artifacts amid more than 19 acres of indoor exhibit space.

The entrance to the National Museum of the United States Air Force is on Springfield Street at historic Wright Field (Gate 28B), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, six miles northeast of Dayton, Ohio.
There is only one entrance to the museum, and it places you at the extensive gift shop.
The penny press machine is in the back of the gift shop at the entrance to the exhibit hangars.
Although the museum closes at 5PM (Open daily 9 to 5), the gift shop stays open later and you can still press your pennies as long as the gift shop remains open.

The gift shop sells Passport books that hold 48 pennies for $5.99 plus tax. The books are in the gift shop just to the left of the penny machines.

Parking and admission are free.

Pennies are $0.51 each, supply your own penny

Machine 2 - is located through the gift shop by the exit. Designs are:
1) F16
2) B17
3) F22
4) P51

Machine 3 (Museum #2) is located through the gift shop by the exit. Designs are:
1) Wright Flyer
2) Eagle head in US Flag
3) Space Shuttle attached to rockets
4) Air Force shoulder patch

Machine 4: (Museum #3/ New 2013) is located through the gift shop by the exit. Designs are:
1) A-10
2) B-2
3) SR-71
4) XB-70

Token Machine 1: (2013) is located in Hangar 2 by the flight simulators, on the left as you enter. Designs are:
1) A-10
2) F-15
3) F-16
4) P-51
All have the Museum Logo on the back.

Token Machine 2: (2015) located in building 4 near the space shuttle:
1) North American XB-70 Valkyrie
2) Lockheed C-141C Hanoi Taxi Starlifter,
3) Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
4) Apollo 18 Command Module
All have the Museum Logo on the back.

Token Machine 3: is located in Hangar 4 by the exit from FDR’s Sacred Cow plane:
1) Douglas VC-118 The Independence,
2) Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000 Air Force One,
3) Douglas VC 54C Sacred Cow,
4) Lockheed VC-121E Columbine III,
All have the Museum Logo on the back.

Retired machine and designs:

Retired 1 1) Wright Bros. Flyer, 2) Apollo Command Module, 3) B-17 bomber, 4) F-22 Raptor fighter jet.
Retired designs: 1) USAF Museum - Dayton, OH (3 buildings)

7/12/25 The retired 3 building penny may have come from location 7366 as it is shown there as retired design 4.

10/15: Token Machine 2 added. GSY
6//28/25: Penny Machines 2, 3, and 4 are all still rolling well. All 3 are located in the very front, through the gift shop before the exit. All 3 token machines are by the exits as well.

6/3/26 All the penny and token machines are now located near the exit and working fine. DWT

7/30/26 all machines at the end after the gift shop. Machine 4 is rolling great