Aviodrome

The Aviodrome Museum in Lelystad Netherlands is an aviation museum, which primarily deals with the history of Dutch civil aviation. The museum is located on the grounds of the airport Lelystad and has an extensive collection of different aircraft. It was created in 2003 from the former Aviation Museum named Aviodome (without the " r") at Amsterdam -Schiphol Airport.

Insolvency and rescue

The museum came into financial difficulties in 2011, went bankrupt and provisionally closed on 23 December 2011 at November 2011. The liquidator had used for the case that there is no investor to March 2012, announced the dissolution of the museum and auction of the exhibits.

Negotiations with the Libéma Group, an operator of several Dutch amusement parks, but led on 23 March 2012 for the successful sale of the museum. Libéma announced that approximately 5.4 million euros to invest to get the collection complete and continue the museum with a new concept to want. The reopening took place on 28 April 2012.

Attractions

The aircraft are housed in two hangars, one of these halls is also used as a workshop. Some larger machines are also outside the halls and can be seen partly from the inside for visitors.

One of the main attractions of this museum is the Uiver fill in the last flying Douglas DC-2 in the world. A machine of the same name and the same type won in 1934 for the KLM, the MacRobertson Air Race from Mildenhall, England to Melbourne in the handicap standings and finished second in the speed rating. The museum also operates Aviodrome still a Lockheed Constellation 749 in KLM colors. An orange Douglas DC- 3 is also owned by the museum, but this machine is not in airworthy condition. By the end of May 2006, the DC-3 " Fifi Kate" was ( in military livery ) a permanent resident in Lelystad.

Other exhibits include the following machines belong. However, you fly, unlike the above-mentioned, no more.

  • Antonov An-2 ( rides available)
  • Boeing 747- 200SUD ( KLM colors)
  • De Havilland D.H.104
  • Douglas DC -3 ( KLM colors)
  • Douglas DC-4
  • Fokker spin
  • Fokker F -27 ( 3 -built copy of the best selling turboprop )
  • Fokker 50 (prototype)
  • Wright Flyer ( Replica )

From other aircraft parts are shown. These include the cockpit of an SE 210 Caravelle and a Fokker 100 and parts of the prototype of the Fokker F- 27th

On December 18, 2004 exactly 101 years after the flight of the Wright brothers, which was acquired by the KLM Boeing 747- 200SUD " Louis Bleriot " transferred via channels and roads in the museum. After the machine has been rebuilt and can be visited inside. This is, according to the former Lufthansa 747-200 " Schleswig -Holstein", the second Boeing 747 in a museum and the first 747 with an extended upper deck.

Terminal building

Besides the two large halls there is a replica of the first terminal building of the airport Schiphol. In this there are ticket counters where tickets can be purchased for rides, as well as the cafe and some rooms where kept regularly lectures or films.

Gallery

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Hall with flight plan

Airline desk

The Uiver front of the building

Lelystad Airport De Havilland Dove
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