Volandia

Volandia
Location within Italy
Established 2010[1]
Location Via per Tornavento, 15,
Case Nuove 21019 Somma Lombardo (VA),
Italy[2]
Coordinates 45°37′48″N 8°42′24″E / 45.630080°N 8.706800°E / 45.630080; 8.706800
Type Aviation museum
Collection size 45 aircraft on display plus cars, motorbikes, scale models and historically significant artifacts[3]
Nearest car park On site (no charge)
Website www.volandia.it

Volandia (full name: Volandia – Parco e museo del volo, Italian for Park and Museum of Flight) is an Italian aviation museum, located near the Malpensa Airport in the comune of Somma Lombardo, in the Province of Varese. Housed in the former industrial premises of the Caproni company at Vizzola Ticino, the museum was established in 2010.

The museum covers an area of ca. 60,000 m² (645,000 sq ft)[4] of which 20,000 m² (215,000 sq ft) are indoors.[5] It opened in 2010, after a 10-year preparation phase.[1]

Its collection is composed of approximately 45 aircraft, including the Caproni Ca.1 (an important milestones of Italian aviation) and other significant Caproni aircraft from the Ca.18 to the C-22J, a Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 (an Italian World War II torpedo bomber), examples of the Aermacchi MB-326, 339 and 346 trainers, Agusta helicopters and other flying machines, as well as cars, motorbikes, scale models and historically significant artifacts.[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Orlando Mastrillo (8 May 2010). "Volandia "decolla", il museo del volo è realtà" [Volandia "Takes off", the aviation museum becomes reality]. Varese News (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2015. External link in |work= (help)
  2. ↑ "Velivoli". Volandia – Parco e museo del volo (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2015. External link in |work= (help)
  3. 1 2 "Info". Volandia – Parco e museo del volo (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2015. External link in |work= (help)
  4. ↑ "Volandia". Volandia – Parco e museo del volo (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2015. External link in |work= (help)
  5. ↑ "Volandia, il Parco e Museo del Volo di Malpensa". Giorgio Ciarini – Aviation Photography and Journalism (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2015. External link in |work= (help)

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