U.S. Air Force Academy IMAX

Usafa · United StatesPublished figures

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 26/100 — a modest premium screen, 272 m² of dome surface. No source states the projector, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 October 2026.

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~IQ 26provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: Not recorded
Screen: 15.2 m dome (~272 m² of surface)
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 124
Screen type: Dome
Opened: 1959
Operator

⚠ Still trading, but no longer an IMAX venue. Planetarium reopened to the public 4 March 2019 after a 15-year closure with 8K fulldome projection; it screens IMAX-produced films but is not an IMAX-branded theatre.

This is a dome. The area above is the projected surface, worked out from the diameter by convention rather than measured — and it wraps above and behind you, so it isn't the same thing as the frontal area of a flat screen. Treat the score as a rough peer of the flat screens around it, not a like-for-like comparison.

Nobody we can cite states what projects the picture in this room, so the projector scores at the floor — neither credited with laser nor assumed to be xenon. Treat the score as indicative.

Why IQ 26

Screen size15/38

15.2 m dome, scored on projected surface · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection11/36

Not recorded · no source on file

Full 1.43 frame0/18

a dome has no frame aspect ratio, so this axis does not apply

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

How big, really?

Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m

1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
3U.S. Air Force Academy (est.) · 18 m wide, height not published
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Published figures

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Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: not established
Operating status: verified not-imax (2019)

No source on file names the projector in this room. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.

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