Guard-Lee Inc is an Apopka, Florida based manufacturer of full size, high fidelity aerospace replicas including aircraft, spacecraft, rockets, and space suits. The company also restores historic spacecraft and rockets. The company has created scale models of aircraft, rockets and space craft for numerous NASA centers including nearby

Kennedy Space Center The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers. Since December 1968 ...

, the

Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ...

, Walt Disney World and Universal Studios and the US Air Force. In 2006, the company prepared the forward fuselage of a 747 donated by Northwest Airlines to the

National Air and Space Museum The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, also called the Air and Space Museum, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Established in 1946 as the National Air Museum, it opened its main building on the Nat ...

at the

Charlotte Aircraft Corporation Charlotte Aircraft Corporation is a company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina which deals in used aircraft and aircraft parts. The company was founded by Jenks Caldwell Sr. in 1953. Today the company is run by his son Jenks Caldwell Jr. ...

facility at the Laurinburg-Maxton Airport in Maxton, NC. The company is listed among NASA's supplier of scale models of spacecraft and aircraft.

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