Museo del Aire (Madrid)

Museo del Aire
Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica
Image of the museum
Established Built in 1979
Location Madrid
Coordinates 40°22′07″N 3°48′03″W / 40.368744°N 3.80085°W / 40.368744; -3.80085
Type Aviation museum
Public transit access Line 10 (Madrid Metro)
Website website

The Museo del Aire, full title in Spanish Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica o Museo del Aire, is an aviation museum located in the outskirts of Madrid at Cuatro Vientos Airport, Spain. The museum was founded in 1981, and offers six exhibition galleries and it has about 150 aircraft on display.[1]

Cuatro Vientos was inaugurated in 1911 and is Spain’s first military airfield. The airfield, although surrounded by construction, is still in use.

Museum displays

The museum facilities extend over a surface of more than 66,000 m2, including outdoor displays and seven hangars. There are mainly planes and helicopters, many of which have previously served in the Spanish Air Force. Visitors will also find hundreds of miniature aircraft models, uniforms, engines, weapons and many other aviation related objects.

Aircraft on display include a Vilanova Acedo, Spanish version of the Blériot XI built in 1911, the Jesús del Gran Poder, a special version of the Breguet 19 used on the transatlantic flight to Asia and America between 1928 and 1929, a few aircraft of the Spanish Republican Air Force, as well as the famous de Havilland Dragon Rapide used by Francisco Franco from the Canary Islands to Tétouan at the start of the military rebellion which began the Spanish Civil War in 1936.[2]

Of special interest are also the Spanish versions of the Heinkel He 111 and the Junkers Ju 52.

Visitors

Ways to get there

There is no access from the airport to the museum, and this is surrounded by a confusing number of roads.

Aircraft exhibits

Source: Odgen 2009[3]

The museum has over 150 aircraft exhibited in outdoor and indoor displays. Over 50 others are not on display, but can often be seen around the site.

List of selected aircraft on display (individual examples already noted or illustrated in Wikimedia projects)

Designation Displayed identity Notes Image
Aerotécnica AC-12Z.2–6commons
Aerotécnica AC-14Z.4-06commons
Boeing KC-97GTK.1-03'123-03'
Bolkow Bo.105LOHHR.15–21'ET-140'commons
Breguet 19GR-'Cuatro Vientos'commons
Breguet 19TR Bidon72'Jesus del Gran Poder'commons
Bristol F.2BB21
CASA 2.111E (Heinkel 111H)T.8B-97'462-04'
CASA 352L (Junkers Ju.52)T.2B-211'911-16'commons
CASA C-101 AviojetXE.25-01commons
CASA C-207 AzorT.7-6'405-15'commons
CASA C-212 AviocarXT.12-1'54-10'commons
Caudron G.3BC-6commons
Cierva C.6C.6-Bcommons
Cierva C.19EC-AIMcommons
Cierva C.30AXVU.1-1
Consolidated PBY-5A CatalinaDR.1-1
de Havilland Dragon RapideG-ACYRcommons
de Havilland Canada DHC-4 CaribouT.9–25commons
Dornier Do 24T-3HD.5-2'58-2'commons
Douglas C-47 DakotaT.3–36'721-9'
Farman F.402SF-002commons
Fieseler Fi 156 StorchL.16–23commons
Grumman HU-16BAD.1B-8
Heinkel 111E-3B.2–82'25–82'
Hispano HS-34EC-AFJ
Hispano HA-1112K1L TripalaC.4J-2commons
Hispano HA-1112M1L BuchonC.4K-158commons
Hispano HA-200 SaetaA.10C-104commons
Lockheed F-104G StarfighterC.8–15'104-15'commons
McDonnell F-4C Phantom IIC.12–37'12–29'commons
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1742commons
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-2122–26E German AFcommons
Mil Mi-2CCCP-23760Icona '34'commons
Nieuport IVM.N.N.5
North American T-6GE.16–90'793-6'commons
North American B-25J Mitchell130338'74-17'
North American F-86 SabreC.5-175'1–175'commons
Polikarpov I-15CA-125commons
Slingsby T.34 SkyEC-RAT
Transavia PL-12 AirtrukVH-TRQcommons
Vilanova Acedo (Blériot XI)-commons
Westland Whirlwind 2ZD.1B-22'803-4'commons

Gallery

See also

References

  1. "Presentación del Museo del Aire" (in Spanish). Spanish Air Force. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  2. Alpert, Michael BBC History Magazine April 2002
  3. Ogden (2009)

Bibliography

External links

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