Flugwerft Schleissheim is an

aviation museum An aviation museum, air museum, or air and space museum is a museum exhibiting the history and artifacts of aviation. In addition to actual, replica or accurate reproduction aircraft, exhibits can include photographs, maps, models, dioramas ...

located in the German town of Oberschleißheim near

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...

, it forms part of the

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collection and complements the aviation exhibits on display at the main site. The museum was opened on 18 September 1992.www.deutsches-museum.de - Flugwerft history
Retrieved: 2 November 2010 Many aerospace exhibits are on display including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and

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s. The main display hangar is a restored glazed building, visitors are able to view exhibits undergoing restoration.

Aircraft on display

''List from Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim.'' www.deutsches-museum.de - Exhibit list
Retrieved: 4 May 2022

Piston engine aircraft

Aircraft Museum Munich Oberschleissheim Hall 1

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 ...

Arado Ar 66 The Arado Ar 66 was a German single-engined, two-seat training biplane, developed in 1933. It was also used for night ground-attack missions on the Eastern Front. It was engineer Walter Rethel's last design in collaboration with Arado, before ...

(remains) * Arco ultralight * Bölkow Bo 209 Monsun * Brunswick LF-1 Zaunkönig * Bücker Bü 181 Bestmann *

Cessna 195 The Cessna 190 and 195 Businessliner are a family of light single radial engine powered, conventional landing gear equipped, general aviation aircraft which were manufactured by Cessna between 1947 and 1954.Montgomery, MR & Gerald Foste ...

* Dornier Do 24 T-3 * Douglas C-47D *

Fairchild 24 The Fairchild Model 24, also called the Fairchild Model 24 Argus and UC-61 Forwarder, is a four-seat, single-engine monoplane light transport aircraft designed by the Fairchild Aviation Corporation in the 1930s. It was adopted by the United ...

* Focke-Wulf Fw 44J Stieglitz * Fokker D.VII * Heinkel He 111 (CASA 2.111B) *

Hirth Acrostar The Hirth Hi 27 Acrostar was designed by Arnold Wagner to win aerobatic competitions, in part by having handling independent of orientation, upright or inverted. A single engine, single seat low-wing monoplane, it was built in West Germany by ...

Klemm Kl 25 Klemm L 25, later Klemm Kl 25 was a successful German light leisure, sports and training monoplane aircraft, developed in 1928. More than 600 aircraft were built, and manufacturing licenses were sold to the United Kingdom and the United State ...

* Lancair IV * LFU 205 * SIAT 223 Flamingo * Müller DDMH 22 * Pützer Motorraab * Raab Krähe * Ranger M ultralight *

Udet U 12 Flamingo The Udet U 12 Flamingo was an aerobatic sports plane and trainer aircraft developed in Germany in the mid-1920s. Design and development The U 12 was a conventional, single-bay biplane of wooden construction with the wings braced by large I-str ...

* Vollmoeller *

Waco YKS-6 The Waco S Series is a family of American cabin biplanes produced by the Waco Aircraft Company starting in 1935. Development and designations The Waco closed cabin biplanes, initially known as the C (for Cabin) series were all unequal span, stag ...

* Yakovlev Yak-50

Jet and turboprop aircraft

''List from Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim.'' Lockheed F-104G 21+53 at Flugwerft Schleissheim

* Canadair CL-13 B Sabre Mk.6 * Dornier Do 128-6 Turbo Skyservant * Eurofighter EF-2000 DA 1 * Lockheed T-33A *

Lockheed F-104G 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 ...

McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy.Swanborough and Bowe ...

* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 MF *

Panavia Tornado IDS The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multirole combat aircraft, jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom and West Germany. There are three primary Tornado variants: the Tornado IDS (interd ...

* Rockwell-MBB X-31 *

Transall C-160 The Transall C-160 is a military transport aircraft, produced as a joint venture between France and Germany. "Transall" is an abbreviation of the manufacturing consortium Transporter Allianz, comprising the companies of MBB, Aerospatiale, and ...

* VFW-Fokker 614

VTOL aircraft

''List from Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim.'' * Dornier Do 31 ''E-3'' * EWR VJ 101 * VFW-Fokker VAK 191B * Dornier Aerodyne ''E1''

Human-powered aircraft

* Rochelt Musculair 2

Gliders and motorgliders

''List from Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim.'' Condor IV

Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-13 Arcus The Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-13 Arcus was an experimental tailless, single seat, Standard Class glider designed and built in Germany in the early 1990s. Though it performed as well as its conventional contemporaries, it did not offer sufficien ...

* Akaflieg Karlsruhe AK-1 * Akaflieg München Mü10 Milan * Akaflieg München Mü27 *

Akaflieg Stuttgart FS-29 The Akaflieg Stuttgart fs29 TF ''Stadt Stuttgart'' is a glider designed and built in Germany from 1972. Development The fs29 was designed and built to research the telescopic variable span wing. With the wing at full extension the fs29 could ...

* Bölkow Phoebus C * Condor IV * DFS Kranich II * DFS Olympia Meise *

Fauvel AV.36 The Fauvel AV.36 was a single-seat tailless glider designed in France in the 1950s by Charles Fauvel. Although the "AV" in ''AV.36'' stands for ''Aile Volante'' (Flying Wing), it was not a true flying wing: it featured two large fins mounted o ...

* Goevier III * Grunau Baby IIb * HKS 3 *

Horten H.IV The Horten H.IV was a German tailless flying wing glider in which the pilot was to lie in a prone position to reduce the frontal area, and hence drag. It was designed by Reimar and Walter Horten in Göttingen. Four were built between 1941 an ...

* Hütter Hü 17a *

Kaiser Ka 1 The Schleicher Ka 3 or Kaiser Ka 3, is a 1950s single seat training aircraft, training glider (sailplane), glider, mostly sold in kit form. Design and development The Ka 3 and its predecessor the Ka 1 were mostly sold as kits for home assembly ...

* Raab Krähe * Rochelt Solair 1 * Scheibe Mü 13E Bergfalke I *

Schleicher Ka 6 The Schleicher Ka 6 is a single-seat glider designed by Rudolf Kaiser, built by Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co, Germany and is constructed of spruce and plywood with fabric covering. The design initially featured a conventional tailplane and e ...

* SG-38 * SZD-9 bis 1E Bocian * Valentin Taifun 17E * Wolfmüller glider

Hang gliders

''List from Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim.'' *

Flight Design Exxtacy The Flight Design Exxtacy is a German high-wing, single or two-place, rigid-wing hang glider that was designed and produced by Flight Design.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 44. Pagefast ...

Huber Alpengleiter Huber is a German-language surname. It derives from the German word ''Hube'' meaning hide, a unit of land a farmer might possess, granting them the status of a free tenant. It is in the top ten most common surnames in the German-speaking world, ...

Laser 12.8 A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word "laser" is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". The fir ...

Lilienthal glider Lilienthal may refer to: * Lilienthal (surname) * Lilienthal, Lower Saxony, a village in Germany * Lilienthal, the former German name of Białczyn, a village in Poland * Lilienthal Glacier, Graham Land, Antarctica * Lilienthal Island, Antarctica * ...

* Pelzner hang glider *

Super Gryphon Super may refer to: Computing * SUPER (computer program), or Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer, a video converter / player * Super (computer science), a keyword in object-oriented programming languages * Super key (keyboard butt ...

Helicopters

''List from Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim.'' * Bell UH-1D *

Kamov Ka-26 The Kamov Ka-26 (NATO reporting name Hoodlum) is a Soviet light utility helicopter with co-axial rotors. Development The Ka-26 entered production in 1969 and 816 were built. A variant with a single turboshaft engine is the Ka-126. A twin turb ...

* MBB Bo 105 * RHCI Mini-500 * Sikorsky S-58 * SNCASE S.E. 3130 Alouette II

Rockets/spacecraft

''List from Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim.'' *

V-2 The V-2 (german: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit=Retaliation Weapon 2), with the technical name ''Aggregat 4'' (A-4), was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was develope ...

(Rocket motor) * Europa rocket *

Ariane 5 Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift space launch vehicle developed and operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA). It is launched from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) in French Guiana. It has been used to deliver payloads int ...

(Booster)

Aircraft engines

''List from Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim.''

Piston engines

Alvis Leonides The Alvis Leonides was a British air-cooled nine-cylinder radial aero engine first developed by Alvis Car and Engineering Company in 1936. Design and development Development of the nine-cylinder engine was led by Capt. George Thomas Smith-Cla ...

Argus As 17 The Argus As 17 was an air cooled six-cylinder in-line aircraft engine designed by the German engineering company Argus Motoren in the 1930s. Developed from the same company's smaller As 8, the engine was produced in ratings between . First dem ...

a * Argus Type 4 * BMW 132A * BMW 801 TJ * BMW 803 *

BMW M2B15 The BMW M2B15 was BMW's first flat-twin engine. Manufactured from 1920 to 1923, the M2B15 was intended to be a portable industrial engine, but it was used by several German motorcycle manufacturers to power their motorcycles. In 1920, BMW eng ...

* Daimler D.IV *

Daimler-Benz DB 601 The Daimler-Benz DB 601 was a German aircraft engine built during World War II. It was a liquid-cooled inverted V12 engine, V12, and powered the Messerschmitt Bf 109, Messerschmitt Bf 110, and many others. Approximately 19,000 601's were pr ...

Daimler-Benz DB 610 The Daimler-Benz DB 605 is a German aircraft engine built during World War II. Developed from the DB 601, the DB 605 was used from 1942 to 1945 in the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter, and the Bf 110 and Me 210C heavy fighters. The DB 610, a pa ...

de Havilland Gipsy Major The de Havilland Gipsy Major or Gipsy IIIA is a four-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted inline engine used in a variety of light aircraft produced in the 1930s, including the famous Tiger Moth biplane. Many Gipsy Major engines still power vintag ...

Farman 12We The Farman 12We was a French 12-cylinder broad arrow configuration aircraft engine that was designed and built by Farman in the early 1920s. Power output was 370 kilowatts (500 hp). Design and development The Farman company develop ...

* Haacke HFM 2 *

Hirth HM 60 The Hirth HM 60 was a four-cylinder inverted air-cooled inline aircraft engine designed in 1923 and first sold in 1924. The engine was of very high quality, and its sales success contributed to Hirth's rapid pre-war expansion. It was a popula ...

Hirth HM 504 The Hirth HM 504 is a four-cylinder air-cooled inverted inline engine. The HM 504 was a popular engine for light aircraft of the 1930s-1940s, and it was used to power a number of Germany's trainer aircraft of World War II. The engine featured a ...

Junkers L5 The Junkers L 5 was a six-cylinder, water-cooled, inline engine for aircraft built in Germany during the 1920s. First run in 1925, it was a much enlarged development of the Junkers L2. Design and development The Junkers L5 was a development of J ...

* Junkers Jumo 211F * Körting 8 SL 116 *

Lycoming GO-480 The Lycoming O-480 is a family of six-cylinder, horizontally opposed fixed-wing aircraft engines of 479.6 cubic inch (7.86 L) displacement, made by Lycoming Engines. The engine is a six-cylinder version of the four-cylinder Lycoming O-320. Desig ...

* Lycoming TIO-360 *

Oberursel U.III The Gnome 7 Lambda was a French designed, seven-cylinder, air-cooled rotary aero engine that was produced under license in Britain and Germany. Powering several World War I-era aircraft types it was claimed to produce from its capacity of alt ...

Porsche PFM 3200 The Porsche PFM 3200 was a six-cylinder horizontally opposed air-cooled aircraft engine developed by Porsche from its air-cooled line of automobile engines from the famous Porsche 911 sports car. The PFM designation was derived from the name of ...

Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp The Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp is an American air-cooled radial aircraft engine. It displaces and its bore and stroke are both . The design traces its history to 1929 experiments at Pratt & Whitney on twin-row designs. Production bega ...

Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp The Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp is an aircraft engine of the reciprocating type that was widely used in American aircraft from the 1920s onward. It was the Pratt & Whitney aircraft company's first engine, and the first of the famed Wasp ser ...

* Rumpler Aeolus *

Salmson AD.3 The Salmson AD.3 or Salmson 3 Ad was a French designed, three-cylinder, air-cooled radial aero engine. It was also produced by British Salmson in Great Britain during the 1920s. Applications (3 Ad) * Adaridi AD 3 * Farman Aviette * Peyret-Ness ...

* Walter Mikron 4-II * Wright-Lawrance L4

Gas turbine engines

* Allison 250 * Allison J33 A *

Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba is a turboprop engine design developed in the late 1940s of around . It was used mostly on the Fairey Gannet anti-submarine aircraft developed for the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy. Design and developmen ...

* Avro Canada Orenda 14 * Bristol Orpheus 703 *

General Electric J79 The General Electric J79 is an axial-flow turbojet engine built for use in a variety of fighter and bomber aircraft and a supersonic cruise missile. The J79 was produced by General Electric Aircraft Engines in the United States, and under lice ...

* Junkers Jumo 004 * Klimov RD-45 *

Lycoming T53 The Lycoming T53, (company designation LTC-1) is a turboshaft engine used on helicopters and (as a turboprop) fixed-wing aircraft since the 1950s. It was designed at the Lycoming Turbine Engine Division in Stratford, Connecticut, by a team ...

Rolls-Royce Pegasus The Rolls-Royce Pegasus, formerly the Bristol Siddeley Pegasus, is a British turbofan engine originally designed by Bristol Siddeley. It was manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. The engine is not only able to power a jet aircraft forward, but also ...

Rolls-Royce RB162 The Rolls-Royce RB.162 is a lightweight British turbojet engine produced by Rolls-Royce Limited. Developed in the early 1960s, it was specially designed for use as a lift engine for VTOL aircraft but was also used in a later variant of the Ha ...

* Rolls-Royce RB145R *

Rolls-Royce/MAN Turbo RB193 The Rolls-Royce/MAN Turbo RB.193 is a vectored thrust turbofan engine designed and manufactured by Rolls-Royce and MAN Turbo in the mid-1960s. The engine test flew in its sole application, the VFW VAK 191B VTOL fighter aircraft but production ...

Rolls-Royce/SNECMA M45H The Rolls-Royce/SNECMA M45H is an Anglo-French medium bypass ratio turbofan produced specifically for the twin-engined VFW-Fokker 614 aircraft in the early 1970s. The design was started as a collaborative effort between Bristol Siddeley and ...

* Tumansky R-29 *

Turbo-Union RB199 The Turbo-Union RB199 is a turbofan jet engine designed and built in the early 1970s by Turbo-Union, a joint venture between Rolls-Royce, MTU and Aeritalia. The only production application was the Panavia Tornado. Design and development The ...

(-101 and -104) *

Wright J65 The Wright J65 was an axial-flow turbojet engine produced by Curtiss-Wright under license from Armstrong Siddeley. A development of the Sapphire, the J65 powered a number of US designs. Design and development Curtiss-Wright purchased a license f ...

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External links

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