The Colonel Jaime Meregalli Aeronautical Museum in an
aviation museum
An aviation museum, air museum, or air and space museum is a museum exhibiting the history and cultural artifacts, artifacts of aviation. In addition to actual, replica or accurate reproduction aircraft, exhibits can include photographs, maps, P ...
located in
Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones
Ciudad de la Costa is a city in Canelones Department of Uruguay, on the banks of the Río de la Plata between the streams Arroyo Carrasco and Arroyo Pando. It is considered an extension of the metropolitan area of Montevideo which it borders to th ...
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History
Originating from an exhibition at
Capitan Boiso Lanza Air Base, the museum was founded on 8 August 1954 by Colonel (Av.) Jaime Meregalli. The museum was moved a number of times in its early years, first to
Air Base No. 1 in
Carrasco and shortly thereafter to the
Cilindro Municipal in downtown
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
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It became the Colonel Jaime Meregalli Aeronautical Museum on 17 March 1993.
On 4 December 1997, the museum suffered a fire which damaged a number of aircraft in the collection.
Eventually, in 2013, it was moved to
Carrasco International Airport.
Collection
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Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan
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Beechcraft T-34B Mentor
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Bell UH-1B Iroquois
The Bell UH-1 Iroquois (nicknamed "Huey") is a utility military helicopter designed and produced by the American aerospace company Bell Helicopter. It is the first member of the prolific Huey family, as well as the first turbine-powered helico ...
* Bell UH-1H Iroquois
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Bleriot XI
* Castaibert VI
* Castaibert VI
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Cessna A-37B Dragonfly
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Curtiss-Wright SNC-1 Falcon
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de Havilland DH.60 Gipsy Moth
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de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
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DFS SG 38 Schulgleiter
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Douglas C-47A Skytrain
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Douglas DC-3
The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner
manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company, which had a lasting effect on the airline industry in the 1930s to 1940s and World War II.
It was developed as a larger, improved 14-bed sleeper version ...
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Fairchild PT-19
The Fairchild PT-19 (company designation Fairchild M62) is an American monoplane primary trainer aircraft that served with the United States Army Air Forces, RAF and RCAF during World War II. Designed by Fairchild Aircraft, it was a contempora ...
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Farman
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FMA IA 58 Pucará
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Focke-Wulf Fw 44 J
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Hiller OH-23F Raven
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Lockheed 18 Lodestar
The Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar is a passenger transport aircraft of the World War II era.
Design and development
Sales of the 10–14 passenger Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra, which first flew in 1937, had proved disappointing, despite the air ...
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Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star
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Lockheed T-33A
* Neybar N.1
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North American AT-6G Texan
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North American B-25 Mitchell
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Piper AE-1
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Potez 25 A.2
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Ryan Navion
The Ryan (originally North American) Navion is a single-engine, unpressurized, retractable gear, four-seat aircraft originally designed and built by North American Aviation in the 1940s. It was later built by Ryan Aeronautical Company and ...
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Santos-Dumont 14-bis – Replica
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Stinson 108-3
References
Further reading
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External links
{{Commons category, Museo Aeronáutico de la Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya
Official websiteAssociation of Friends of the Aeronautical Museum
Aerospace museums
Museums in Uruguay