Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina
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Coordinates: 34°40′18.05″S 58°38′12.45″W / 34.6716806°S 58.6367917°W
Established | 13 January 1960 |
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Location | Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Type | Aviation museum |
Director | Vicecomodoro D. Walter Cesar OLMEDO (2019) |
Website | Official website (Archived) |
The Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica (MNA) (English: National Aeronautics Museum) is a museum located in the city of Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina, dedicated to the history of aviation, in particular the Argentine Air Force.
Its collection includes some unique aircraft, like the Pulqui I and Pulqui II jet prototypes, the Urubú flying wing glider, the I.Ae. 22 DL trainer, and a Latécoère XXV flown by Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
History[]
The museum was created on January 13, 1960, by decree 264/60 of the President of the Republic, its first director and main supporter being Brigadier Edmundo Civatti Bernasconi.
It was initially located at the Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, where the aircraft were displayed in the grounds without protection from the weather. In the 1980s it was proposed to relocate the museum to provide protection to the aircraft, a new facility close to the Ezeiza airport was suggested.
In 2001 was relocated to the Morón Airport and Air Base, site of Argentina's first international airport, where hangars were available to protect most of the collection.
Collections[]
Aircraft[]
Aircraft on display include:
- Fixed-wing
- Avro Lincoln II B-004, on display as B-010[1]
- Boeing 737 LV-WTK, donated by Aerolineas Argentinas[citation needed]
- Bristol Freighter
- Dassault Mirage III versions C, DA (I-002) and EA (I-011)[2]
- Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, versions A-4P and A-4C
- Douglas DC-3 TA-05, modified as antarctic transport[citation needed]
- English Electric Canberra B Mk.62 B-109, the last one to complete a mission in the Falklands War.[3]
- Fairchild Swearingen Metro II (currently[when?] under restoration)[citation needed]
- Fiat G.46, post-war military trainer.[4]
- FMA IA 22 DL (c/n 728), trainer built by the Fabrica Militar de Aviones[5]
- FMA IA 27 Pulqui I prototype, the first jet designed and built in Latin America[6]
- FMA IA 33 Pulqui II prototype 5, first swept-wing jet fighter designed and built in Latin America[7]
- FMA IA 41 Urubú, flying wing glider designed by Reimar Horten
- FMA IA 50 Guaraní II
- FMA IA 58 Pucará
- FMA IA 63 Pampa EX-03 mock-up
- Focke Wulf FW-44J, biplane trainer
- Gloster Meteor F.4 I-041, ex-EE586[8]
- Israeli Aircraft Industries Dagger
- Junkers Ju 52/3m (WNr.4043)[9][10][11]
- Latécoère XXV flown by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for Aeroposta Argentina[citation needed]
- Max-Holste 1521 Broussard
- Morane-Saulnier MS.502
- North American F-86 Sabre
- Vickers Viking 1B T-9[12]
- Rotary wing
- Bell UH-1 Huey
- Bolkow Bo 105
- Cierva C.30 autogiro[4]
- Sikorsky S-55 helicopter, H-04[citation needed]
- Sikorsky S-61R H-02 used by the Presidential flight[13]
In February 2013, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81 (ex-Austral, LV-WFN) was donated to the museum, for restoration and exhibition. This aircraft is notable for having the highest number of flight hours worldwide for its type (70,444 hours in 60,350 cycles) as of March 2012, when it was retired.[14]
Engines[]
- Napier Sabre IIA inline
- Packard DR-980 radial diesel
Other[]
Other exhibits include:
- Anasagasti car, used by the Argentine Air Force.
Facilities[]
The museum is divided in different halls, dedicated to specific themes:[15]
- Motores: displaying aviation engines.
- Malvinas: which includes a Grumman HU-16 Albatross amphibian used in the 1970s to establish a route line between Comodoro Rivadavia and Malvinas (Falkland Islands).
- Antartida: for material used in Antarctica.
- Pioneros: dedicated to Aviation pioneers.
- Torre de control: details the interior of a control tower.
- Pegaso: to host events.
- Icaro: coffee shop.
In addition there is a small gift shop.
Gallery[]
Aircraft displayed[]
Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan E-110
Bell 205 (UH-1) H-15
Boeing 737 LV-WTX
Bristol B170 Freighter
Dinfia I.Ae.22DL
de Havilland Dove
DHC-2 Beaver
Douglas A-4P Skyhawk C-207
Douglas A-4C Skyhawk C-322
Douglas DC-3 TA-05
Fairchild 82D LV-FHZ
Swearingen Metro LQ-MLV
Fiat G-46-5B
FMA I.Ae. 27 Pulqui I prototype
FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II prototype 5
FMA IA 35 Huanquero
FMA IA 50 Guaraní II
FMA IA 53 Mamboretá
FMA IA 58 Pucará prototype AX-01
FMA IA63 Pampa prototype EX-03
Focke Wulf FW-44J Stieglitz
Fokker F.27 T-42
Gloster Meteor F.4
Grumman Albatross
Iriarte Ladrillo (experimental)
Lockheed Hercules C-130B TC-60
MBB Bo.105C
Mirage IIIC
Max Holste 1521 Broussard
Morane-Saulnier MS.502 Criquet
Morane-Saulnier Ms.760 Paris
NA F-86 Sabre
Percival Prentice T.1
Rockwell Aero Commander 500
Sikorsky S-55 H-04
Sikorsky S-61 H-02
Vickers Viking
Other objects displayed[]
Automobile Anasagasti, 1914
Packard DR-980 engine
See also[]
- List of aerospace museums
References[]
Notes[]
- ^ "Individual History: Avro Lincoln B.2 RF398/8376M – Museum Accession Number 84/A/1182." Royal Air Force Museum, 2012.
- ^ "Los mirage vuelan a su destino en el museo de Moron" La Nacion, 11 December 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ^ "El Canberra B 109 se ganó un lugar en el museo aeronáutico." La Nacion, 26 June 2000. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ^ Jump up to: a b FERNANDEZ VIVAS, Leandro. "Un millón de personas visitaron el Argentina Air Fest 2010". Rumbos Aeronauticos (Issue 18, Year 9) (in Spanish). Fuerza Aerea Argentina. Retrieved 2014-05-31.
- ^ Homewood, Steve. "FMA I.Ae.22DL, EA-701 / 728, Museo Nacional de Aeronautica (Argentina)". abpic.co.uk. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ Ogden 2008, p. 510.
- ^ Rivas 2008, p. 171.
- ^ Ogden 2008, p. 510
- ^ Cicalesi & Rivas, 2009. Page 36
- ^ Brea, Esteban (13 March 2012). "Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica: Más de medio siglo de preservación" [National Aeronautics Museum: More than half a century of preservation]. Gaceta Aeronautica (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ Forsgren, Jan (2017). The Junkers Ju 52 Story. Fonthill Media. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
- ^ "Airframe Dossier - Vickers Viking 1B, s/n T-9 ARA, c/n 163, c/r LV-XET". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Archived from the original on 25 April 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "Airframe Dossier - Sikorsky S-61R, s/n H-02 FAA, c/n 61.763". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "Una nueva aeronave para el MNA" [A new aircraft for the MNA]. Aeroespacio (in Spanish). Argentina: Fuerza Aerea Argentina (Argentine Air Force). 27 February 2013. Archived from the original on 24 May 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- ^ MNA Website Archived 2010-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
Sources[]
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- Cicalesi, Juan Carlos; Rivas, Santiago (2009). Núñez Padin, Jorge Felix (ed.). Junkers F13 / W34 / K43 / Ju 52. Serie en Argentina (in Spanish). 3. Bahía Blanca, Argentina: Fuerzas Aeronavales. ISBN 978-987-20557-7-6. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
- Ogden, Bob. Aviation Museums and Collections of the Rest of the World. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 2008. ISBN 978-0-85130-394-9.
- Riega, Gilberto (March 1971). "A Buenos Aires, El Museo Nacional de Aeronautica de la Argentina" [At Buenos Aires, the Argentine National Museum of Aviation]. Le album de fanatique de l'Aviation (in French) (20): 16–17. ISSN 0757-4169.
- Rivas, Santiago. "Pioneers & Prototypes: Pulqui, Pulqui II and IA-37/48." International Air Power Review, Issue 25, 2008, pp. 162–173. Westport, CT: AIRtime. ISSN 1473-9917.
Further reading[]
- Esteban Brea (2012-03-13). "Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica: Más de medio siglo de preservación" [National Aeronautics Museum: More than half a century of preservation] (in Spanish). Gaceta Aeronautica. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
- Pavlovcic, Gabriel; Raczynski, Esteban (2011). Los Clásicos en los Cielos del Cono Sur: Nuestro Legado, Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica. Legacy (in Spanish). 2. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Argentinidad. ISBN 9789872667108. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
- Esteban Brea (2006-10-26). "La maduración del "Proyecto Morón"" (in Spanish). Pista18. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- "Río Cuarto: recuperarán un avión Junkers Ju 52" (in Spanish). Cordoba, Argentina: La Voz del Interior. 2016-02-25. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- Weissmann, Hilda. La ciudad se enseña (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Colihue SRL. ISBN 9789505816354. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- "ASOCIACIÓN AMIGOS DEL MUSEO NACIONAL DE AERONÁUTICA" (in Spanish). ANAC. 2014-10-29. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
- "El Pulqui vuelve a sobrevolar la historia" [The Pulqui overflies history again] (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina: La Nacion. 2001-10-08. Retrieved 24 Apr 2019. (Article about Pulqui I restoration and history, and when the MNA reopened at Moron)
- Cater, Phil; Caballero, Ricardo (May 2013). "The Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica Buenos Aires". IPMS Magazine. United Kingdom: International Plastic Modellers Society. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
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