The Aviation Museum Hannover-Laatzen (german: link=no, Luftfahrtmuseum Hannover-Laatzen) is a permanent exhibition in Laatzen of the

history of aviation The history of aviation extends for more than two thousand years, from the earliest forms of aviation such as kites and attempts at tower jumping to supersonic and hypersonic flight by powered, heavier-than-air jets. Kite flying in Chin ...

. 38 airplanes, 800 aircraft models, and more than 30 aircraft engines are displayed on . Among the vast array of exhibits one can find an original Jumo 004A, one of the first jet engines in history, as well as a

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 The Focke-Wulf Fw 190, nicknamed ''Würger'' (" Shrike") is a German single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank at Focke-Wulf in the late 1930s and widely used during World War II. Along with its well-known counterpart, ...

, a

Messerschmitt Bf 109 The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was, along with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force. The Bf 109 first saw operational service in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War an ...

and a

Supermarine Spitfire The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II. Many variants of the Spitfire were built, from the Mk 1 to the Rolls-Royce Grif ...

. Aircraft from the postwar era include a MiG-15, an F-104 and an

An-2 The Antonov An-2 ("kukuruznik"—corn crop duster; USAF/DoD reporting name Type 22, NATO reporting name Colt) is a Soviet mass-produced single-engine biplane utility/agricultural aircraft designed and manufactured by the Antonov Design Bureau ...

History

The entrepreneur Günter Leonhardt was already interested in gliding as a teenager and volunteered for the Luftwaffe. After the Second World War, Leonhardt created the Nelke shipping company, together with the businessman Karl Nelke. His passion was aviation, and he built a large private collection. For this he rescued several

Ju-52 The Junkers Ju 52/3m (nicknamed ''Tante Ju'' ("Aunt Ju") and ''Iron Annie'') is a transport aircraft that was designed and manufactured by German aviation company Junkers. Development of the Ju 52 commenced during 1930, headed by German aero ...

from a Norwegian lake in the Arctic Circle, which had sunk there in 1940. In 1992, he partially transferred his collection to the Aviation Museum Laatzen-Hannover, located on the premises of the company he by then owned. The company Nelke was sold in 1994. On 11 April 2013, the Aviation Museum Laatzen-Hannover, the Aeronauticum in Nordholz, the Helicopter Museum Bückeburg and the Ju-52 Museum in Wunstorf have joined together to form the "Association of Aviation Museums of Lower Saxony" ("Arbeitsgemeinschaft Niedersächsischer Luftfahrtmuseen").

Exhibits

Exhibits include civilian and military aircraft. In addition to the aircraft collection are numerous items of everyday use, such as vehicles and clothing. Further emphasis is set on: the early days of aviation, daring pilots, the salvage of the Ju 52 in the Arctic Circle, the history of gliding and women in aviation. Exhibits are mostly arranged in chronological order, starting with the birth of aviation and ending with modern civil aviation.

Airplanes

Antonov An-2 The Antonov An-2 ("kukuruznik"—corn crop duster; USAF/DoD reporting name Type 22, NATO reporting name Colt) is a Soviet mass-produced single-engine biplane utility/agricultural aircraft designed and manufactured by the Antonov Design Bure ...

* Dornier Do 28 D-2 * Filter Schwan I *

Focke-Wulf Fw 44 The Focke-Wulf Fw 44 ''Stieglitz'' ("Goldfinch") is a 1930s German two-seat biplane. An early design by Kurt Tank, it was produced by the Focke-Wulf company as a pilot training and sports flying aircraft. It was also eventually built under lice ...

Stieglitz * Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8 *

Fokker Dr.I The Fokker Dr.I (''Dreidecker'', "triplane" in German), often known simply as the Fokker Triplane, was a World War I fighter aircraft built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. The Dr.I saw widespread service in the spring of 1918. It became famous as the ...

, replica *

Fokker E.III The Fokker E.III was the main variant of the ''Eindecker'' (literally meaning "one deck") fighter aircraft of World War I. It entered service on the Western Front in December 1915 and was also supplied to Austria-Hungary and Turkey. Design an ...

, replica * Grade Eindecker, replica * HFB 320 Hansa Jet * Horväth III, replica * Ikarus Windspiel 2 * Junkers F 13 a, replica * Klemm L 25 D *

Lilienthal Normalsegelapparat The Lilienthal ''Normalsegelapparat'' (German: "Normal soaring apparatus") is a Glider aircraft, glider designed by Otto Lilienthal in Germany in the late 19th century. It is considered to be the first aeroplane to be serially produced, exampl ...

, replica * Lockheed F-104 Starfighter * Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2 *

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (russian: Микоя́н и Гуре́вич МиГ-15; USAF/DoD designation: Type 14; NATO reporting name: Fagot) is a jet fighter aircraft developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich for the Soviet Union. The MiG-15 was one of ...

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet aircraft, jet fighter aircraft, fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan, Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB, De ...

(as Signpost) *

Nieuport 17 The Nieuport 17 C.1 (or Nieuport XVII C.1 in contemporary sources) was a French sesquiplane fighter designed and manufactured by the Nieuport company during World War I. An improvement over the Nieuport 11, it was a little larger than earlier N ...

, replica * Piaggio P.149 D * Rheinflug RW-3b * Rieseler R III/22, replica * Ryan M-2 NYP Spirit of St. Louis, replica *

Scheibe L-Spatz 55 The Scheibe ''Spatz'' (German: " Sparrow") is a German glider with a mixed metal and wood construction that was built in 1952 until 1962. Later versions were known as the L-Spatz, the letter L standing for ''Leistung'', which is German for "per ...

* Schneider Grunau Baby II *

DFS SG 38 Schulgleiter The Schneider DFS 108-14 SG-38 ''Schulgleiter'' () is a German high-wing, cable-braced, single-seat primary glider that was designed by Schneider, Rehberg and Hofmann at Edmund Schneider's factory at Grunau in 1938, hence the designation. It ...

Two seater glider *

Sopwith Camel The Sopwith Camel is a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft that was introduced on the Western Front in 1917. It was developed by the Sopwith Aviation Company as a successor to the Sopwith Pup and became one of the b ...

, replica * Stampe SV-4c * Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XIV *

Tipsy Nipper The Tipsy Nipper T.66 is an aerobatic light aircraft, developed in 1952 by Ernest Oscar Tips of Avions Fairey at Gosselies in Belgium. It was designed to be easy to fly, cheap to buy and cheap to maintain. It was designed for both factory prod ...

* Ultralight-Aircraft A. K. Meyer FFB I Flamingo * Yakovlev Yak-18

Helicopters

* Aérospatiale Alouette II 8,8-cm-FlaK 36

Other

* Equipment for pilots * Junkers Ju 52/3m fuselage * Flugmotoren und Triebwerke * WWII Anti-Aircraft Gun * Instrument Panels and Equipment * Various aircraft models

Gallery of museum exhibits

File:F-104 Luftfahrtmuseum Hannover-Laatzen.JPG,

F-104 Starfighter The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic air superiority fighter which was extensively deployed as a fighter-bomber during the Cold War. Created as a day fighter by Lockheed as one of the "Century Series" of fi ...

File:F-104 cockpit, Luftfahrtmuseum Hannover-Laatzen.JPG, F-104 cockpit File:Bf 109 G2 1, Luftfahrtmuseum Hannover-Laatzen.JPG,

G-2 File:Fw 190 A8 1, Luftfahrtmuseum Hannover-Laatzen.JPG,

A-8 File:Fw 190 A8 2, Luftfahrtmuseum Hannover-Laatzen.JPG, Fw 190 A-8 File:Spitfire Mk XIV 1, Luftfahrtmuseum Hannover-Laatzen.JPG, Spitfire Mk XIV File:Spitfire Mk XIV 2, Luftfahrtmuseum Hannover-Laatzen.JPG, Spitfire Mk XIV File:Jumo 004 Stretch.jpg,

Junkers Jumo 004 The Junkers Jumo 004 was the world's first production turbojet engine in operational use, and the first successful axial compressor turbojet engine. Some 8,000 units were manufactured by Junkers in Germany late in World War II, powering the Mess ...

jet engine File:8.8 cm Flak, Luftfahrtmuseum Hannover-Laatzen.JPG, 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 File:Fliegerpokal Wick.jpg,

Helmut Wick Helmut Paul Emil Wick (5 August 1915 – 28 November 1940) was a German flying ace of World War II. He was a wing commander in the Luftwaffe (air force) of Nazi Germany, and the fourth recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak L ...

Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe The ''Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe'' (Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe) was a Luftwaffe award established on 27 February 1940 by ''Reichsmarschall'' Hermann Göring, the ''Reich'' Minister of Aviation and Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe. It was of ...

References

External links

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Luftfahrt-Museum Laatzen-Hannover bei hannover.de
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