“We want to distinguish between any scratches that occurred during shipping versus something that was built into the vehicle.
“This is a battle-scarred X-Wing fighter,” explained Margaret Weitekamp, the museum’s space history chair, in the report. Star Wars fans will be able to view the X-Wing’s restoration process over the next year in Virginia, though it’ll take a keen eye to spot intentional battle damage and the pedestrian bumps and scrapes from the mega-craft’s shipment and reassembly.
Credit: Lucasfilm / Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum - photo by Jim Preston
