HAL Aerospace Museum is India's first

aerospace 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, cl ...

located at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited premises, in

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

. Established in 2001, the Museum is part of the HAL Heritage Centre and Aero Space Museum, and showcases the growth of the Indian aviation industry and

HAL HAL may refer to: Aviation * Halali Airport (IATA airport code: HAL) Halali, Oshikoto, Namibia * Hawaiian Airlines (ICAO airline code: HAL) * HAL Airport, Bangalore, India * Hindustan Aeronautics Limited an Indian aerospace manufacturer of fight ...

for six decades. The museum houses displays of various

aircraft An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines ...

and

helicopters A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...

Aircraft engine An aircraft engine, often referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system. Most aircraft engines are either piston engines or gas turbines, although a few have been rocket powered and in recent years many ...

models, Flight simulators, a mock

Air Traffic Control Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airs ...

Tower and exhibit of Indian aviation history. The Museum is maintained by HAL (one of Asia's largest

Aerospace Aerospace is a term used to collectively refer to the atmosphere and outer space. Aerospace activity is very diverse, with a multitude of commercial, industrial and military applications. Aerospace engineering consists of aeronautics and astrona ...

companies).

Gallery

File:HAL heritage centre and aerospace museum bangalore 8089.JPG, HAL heritage center. File:HAL Museum Wall of fame 1940, 1950, 1960 7966.JPG, HAL Museum Wall of fame 1940, 1950, 1960. File:Adour Mk 811 by Augustus.jpg, Adour Mk 811. File:HAL HJT-36 Sitara at HAL Aerospace Museum HALMUS01.jpg,

HAL HJT-36 Sitara The HAL HJT-36 ''Sitara'' ( Sitārā: "''star''") is a subsonic intermediate jet trainer aircraft designed and developed by Aircraft Research and Design Centre (ARDC) and built by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force and ...

(IJT), intermediate jet trainer prototype. File:LCA at HAL Aerospace Museum HALMUS02.jpg, HAL Tejas mock-up (LCA) light weight multi-role fighter. File:Canberra rear at HAL Aerospace Museum HALMUS04.jpg,

English Electric Canberra The English Electric Canberra is a British first-generation, jet-powered medium bomber. It was developed by English Electric during the mid- to late 1940s in response to a 1944 Air Ministry requirement for a successor to the wartime de Havil ...

jet-powered bomber. File:Ajeet at HAL Museum 7694.JPG, HAL Ajeet subsonic jet trainer & light fighter aircraft. File:Advanced Light Helicopter by HAL 7738.JPG, A prototype HAL Dhruv ALH (Advanced Light Helicopter) File:Westland Sea King MK 42 at HAL Museum 7725.JPG, Westland Sea King Mk.42 medium-lift transport/utility helicopter. File:Lakshya at HAL Aerospace Museum HALMUS03.jpg,

DRDO Lakshya Lakshya ("target" in Sanskrit) is an Indian remotely piloted high speed target drone system developed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) of DRDO. A variant ''Lakshya-1'' is used to perform discreet aerial reconnaissance of battl ...

high performance reusable aerial target system.

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