Favourite Aviation Museum

[quixoticguide]

What's your favourite aviation museum?

Share your experience here!

[KriVa]

That would have to be Duxford, for now...

[quixoticguide]

Difficult to choose a favorite museum

- Belgrade

[quixoticguide]

Rand Airport, South Africa

[cathay belgium]

Hi,
In europe Duxford by far ! Followed by Riga Airport!
In USA.. Museum of Flight in Seattle and National Museum of Aviation in Washington ! ( both )
But still dreaming of Palmdale Blackbird Park !

CxB

[Apuneger]

Hi,

Honestly, I haven't visited that many aviation museums in the past, but here are a few that I enjoyed very much:

- Flugausstellung Hermeskeil

A very nice museum with a big collection of military and civil aircraft, both Western and Russian built.

Here a couple of pics to give you an idea of the collection:

More photos are available here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsk6RZPYf

- Ailes Anciennes Toulouse

Also a nice place with restored aircraft, but it's been quite a few years since I visited it. If you're near Toulouse airport, it's definitely worth a visit.

Best regards,
Ivan

[cathay belgium]

Hi,

Offcourse Toulouse ! Great museums near the Airbus-factory ( Hamburg visit is much much better )
BTW we organised an avgeek-trip to there few years ago ,... Maybe we need another trip

CXB

[quixoticguide]

Hi,

Offcourse Toulouse ! Great museums near the Airbus-factory ( Hamburg visit is much much better )
BTW we organised an avgeek-trip to there few years ago ,... Maybe we need another trip

CXB

We can go to State Aviation Museum Kiev

[Comet]

Hi,

Honestly, I haven't visited that many aviation museums in the past, but here are a few that I enjoyed very much:

- Flugausstellung Hermeskeil

A very nice museum with a big collection of military and civil aircraft, both Western and Russian built.

Here a couple of pics to give you an idea of the collection:


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More photos are available here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsk6RZPYf

- Ailes Anciennes Toulouse

Also a nice place with restored aircraft, but it's been quite a few years since I visited it. If you're near Toulouse airport, it's definitely worth a visit.

Best regards,
Ivan

That looks like my kind of aviation museum. Too many concentrate on military aircraft and civil aircraft are almost invariably ignored, which is a shame for vintage airliner enthusiasts.

I visited the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow last year and loved that one - not a museum for airliners unfortunately but it was great to see so many Soviet-era military aircraft which I had never seen before. The MiG-29 was a real highlight.

[sn26567]

How about the museum of the Mikoyan brothers (you know? One of them was a Red Army general, his brother was the aviator who created the MiG fighter aircraft together with his Russian colleague Gurevitsh) in Sanahin, Armenia? But it has only one aircraft, a MiG-21.

The museum is still tended by a lady of the Mikoyan family.

MiG-21 in the Mikoyan Museum of Sanahin, Armenia

[MD-11forever]

I have visited the
- National Air and Space museum in Washington D.C.
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles Airport

I must say I was quite impressed by those two...

[Homo Aeroportus]

+30 years back (ouch !) :

Commemorative (back then Confederate) Air Force Museum, Mesa AZ.
Quite a number of interesting warbirds, well preserved and some in flying condition.

Then Wright-Patt in Dayton OH.
I remember that B-36 “Peacekeeper” monster bomber with huge wingspan and six (piston !) engines.
Have been told they have opened an extension last year. Maybe worth a refresher visit then.

H.A.

[quixoticguide]

China Aviation Museum near Beijing is also a huge place

[quixoticguide]

Iran Aviation Museum