Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina

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Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica
"Brigadier Edmundo Civati Bernasconi"
Main hall, with Gloster Meteor (foreground), Huanquero (background left), Focke Wulf 44 (background right), and Urubú (hanging from roof)
EstablishedJanuary 13, 1960 (1960-01-13)
LocationMorón, Buenos Aires, Argentina
TypeAviation museum
DirectorVicecomodoro Walter Olmedo (2019)
Websiteargentina.gob.ar/museomoron

The National Aeronautics Museum "Brigadier Edmundo Civati Bernasconi" (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica) is an Argentine museum located in the city of Morón, Buenos Aires. Established in 1960, the museum is 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 the museum 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.

McDonnell Douglas MD-81 LV-WFN in 2009; donated to the museum in 2013

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.[1]

Facilities

The museum is divided in different halls, dedicated to specific themes:[2]

In addition there is a small gift shop.

Collections
Part of the collection in one of the hangars

Aircraft

Aircraft on display include:

Latecoere 25, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, 1975
Percival Prentice, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, 1972
Gloster Meteor, at the previous location of the MNA, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, 1975
IA 35 Huanquero, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, 1975
Fixed-wing
Rotary wing

Engines

Other

Other exhibits include:

Aircraft displayed
  • Avro Lincoln B.2
    Avro Lincoln B.2
  • Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan E-110
    Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan E-110
  • Bell 205 (UH-1) H-15
    Bell 205 (UH-1) H-15
  • Boeing 737 LV-WTX
    Boeing 737 LV-WTX
  • Bristol B170 Freighter
    Bristol B170 Freighter
  • English Electric Canberra
    English Electric Canberra
  • Dinfia I.Ae.22DL
    Dinfia I.Ae.22DL
  • de Havilland Dove
    de Havilland Dove
  • DHC-2 Beaver
    DHC-2 Beaver
  • Douglas A-4P Skyhawk C-207
    Douglas A-4P Skyhawk C-207
  • Douglas A-4C Skyhawk C-322
    Douglas A-4C Skyhawk C-322
  • Douglas DC-3 TA-05
    Douglas DC-3 TA-05
  • Fairchild 82D LV-FHZ
    Fairchild 82D LV-FHZ
  • Swearingen Metro LQ-MLV
    Swearingen Metro LQ-MLV
  • Farman replica
    Farman replica
  • Fiat G-46-5B
    Fiat G-46-5B
  • FMA I.Ae. 27 Pulqui I prototype
    FMA I.Ae. 27 Pulqui I prototype
  • FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II prototype 5
    FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II prototype 5
  • FMA IA 35 Huanquero
    FMA IA 35 Huanquero
  • FMA IA 50 Guaraní II
    FMA IA 50 Guaraní II
  • FMA IA 53 Mamboretá
    FMA IA 53 Mamboretá
  • FMA IA 58 Pucará prototype AX-01
    FMA IA 58 Pucará prototype AX-01
  • FMA IA63 Pampa prototype EX-03
    FMA IA63 Pampa prototype EX-03
  • Focke Wulf FW-44J Stieglitz
    Focke Wulf FW-44J Stieglitz
  • Fokker F.27 T-42
    Fokker F.27 T-42
  • Gloster Meteor F.4
    Gloster Meteor F.4
  • Grumman Albatross
    Grumman Albatross
  • Iriarte Ladrillo (experimental)
    Iriarte Ladrillo (experimental)
  • Latécoère 25
    Latécoère 25
  • Lockheed Hercules C-130B TC-60
    Lockheed Hercules C-130B TC-60
  • MBB Bo.105C
    MBB Bo.105C
  • Mirage IIIC
    Mirage IIIC
  • Max Holste 1521 Broussard
    Max Holste 1521 Broussard
  • Morane-Saulnier MS.502 Criquet
    Morane-Saulnier MS.502 Criquet
  • Morane-Saulnier Ms.760 Paris
    Morane-Saulnier Ms.760 Paris
  • NA F-86 Sabre
    NA F-86 Sabre
  • Percival Prentice T.1
    Percival Prentice T.1
  • Rockwell Aero Commander 500
    Rockwell Aero Commander 500
  • Sikorsky S-55 H-04
    Sikorsky S-55 H-04
  • Sikorsky S-61 H-02
    Sikorsky S-61 H-02
  • Vickers Viking
    Vickers Viking

Other objects displayed

See also

References

Notes
  1. "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.
  2. MNA Website Archived 2010-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Individual History: Avro Lincoln B.2 RF398/8376M – Museum Accession Number 84/A/1182." Royal Air Force Museum, 2012.
  4. Cater & Caballero (IPMS Magazine May 2013)
  5. "100 Años.....Celebración en Aeroparque". Museo Nacional de Aeronautica. 21 February 2010. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  6. "Los mirage vuelan a su destino en el museo de Moron" La Nacion, 11 December 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  7. "El Canberra B 109 se ganó un lugar en el museo aeronáutico." La Nacion, 26 June 2000. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  8. 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.
  9. Homewood, Steve. "FMA I.Ae.22DL, EA-701 / 728, Museo Nacional de Aeronautica (Argentina)". abpic.co.uk. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  10. Ogden 2008, p. 510.
  11. Rivas 2008, p. 171.
  12. Ogden 2008, p. 510
  13. Cicalesi & Rivas, 2009. Page 36
  14. 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.
  15. Forsgren, Jan (2017). The Junkers Ju 52 Story. Fonthill Media. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  16. "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.
  17. "Airframe Dossier - Sikorsky S-61R, s/n H-02 FAA, c/n 61.763". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 30 May 2017.

Sources
  • 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.
  • Cicalesi, Juan Carlos; Rivas, Santiago (2009). Núñez Padin, Jorge Felix (ed.). Junkers F13 / W34 / K43 / Ju 52. Serie en Argentina (in Spanish). Vol. 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.

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