Musée de l'Air

The Musée de l'air et de l' espace is a French museum dedicated to aviation and space technology, which is located in Paris at Le Bourget airport.

History

It was founded in 1919 at the suggestion of Albert Caquot, making it one of the oldest museums of its kind in the world. Today, the most important part of the collection includes about 300 aircraft that are issued to a large extent. In addition there exists a collection of rockets and spacecraft and a planetarium. An extensive collection of aircraft engine is no longer accessible to the public. The extensive library can be visited by appointment. After the change of use of the airport Le Bourget the present premises in 1975 were related. Admission to the exhibition is free. Special admission cost.

Exhibits

Below is a selection of the exhibited aircraft.

Aircraft until 1918

Aircraft 1919-1945

  • Junkers F 13, 1919
  • Breguet 19, 1926
  • Potez 53, 1933
  • Polikarpov I -153, 1934
  • DFS Habicht, 1936,
  • Martin B -26, 1941
  • Focke- Wulf Fw 190, 1941
  • Supermarine Spitfire XVI, 1942
  • Heinkel He 162 A "people's fighter ", 1944
  • Fieseler Fi 103 "V1", 1944

Aircraft since 1945

Military Aircraft

  • Leduc 010, prototype, 1947
  • Nord 1500 Griffon, prototype, 1955
  • Leduc 022, prototype, 1956
  • Transall C- 160 series engine, 1963

Commercial aircraft

  • Two Concorde is one of the prototype of the series
  • Boeing 727, 1966
  • Boeing 747, fully accessible
  • Mercure 100, walkable

Aircraft engines

  • BMW 801, 1942
  • Junkers Jumo 004, 1943
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