The Lithuanian Aviation Museum is located in
Kaunas
Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai ...
,
Lithuania
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. The museum was officially opened in 1983. The permanent collection of the museum contains more than 18 000 displays of different fields of technology. The major part of the collection is dedicated to the history of aviation in Lithuania. It includes about 40
flying machines
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, models of airplanes,
flyers,
gliders and
helicopter
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s of various times, and designed during the
Interwar period
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of Lithuania first
combat aircraft the
ANBO I __NOTOC__
The ANBO I was a single-seat aircraft developed in Lithuania, proposed as a trainer for the Army It was a low-wing, braced monoplane of conventional tailwheel configuration. The fuselage structure was of fabric-covered welded steel t ...
by General
Antanas Gustaitis
Antanas Gustaitis (March 26, 1898 – October 16, 1941) was an officer in the Lithuanian Armed Forces who modernized the Lithuanian Air Force, which at that time was part of the Lithuanian Army. He was the architect or aeronautical engineer who ...
.
The museum is located at the airfield where the aviators Darius and Girėnas were expected to land following their trans-atlantic flight. However, the remains of their plane are on display in the
Vytautas the Great War Museum
The Vytautas the Great War Museum ( lt, Vytauto Didžiojo karo muziejus) is a museum in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was built in Art Deco and early functionalism style.
Originally it was established in 1921 by Vladas Nagevičius but later it was deci ...
, rather than at the aviation museum.
The museum organizes exhibitions, exchanges publications with aviation museums, historians in different countries of the world.
Exhibits
LAM 2008-09 Lituanica.jpg, Lituanica replica
LAM 2008-09 Anbo-1.jpg, ANBO I __NOTOC__
The ANBO I was a single-seat aircraft developed in Lithuania, proposed as a trainer for the Army It was a low-wing, braced monoplane of conventional tailwheel configuration. The fuselage structure was of fabric-covered welded steel t ...
Antonov An-24.jpg, Former Lithuanian Air Force
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airplane Antonov An-24
LT LY-HBQ.jpg, Former Lithuanian State Border Guard Service
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helicopter Kamov Ka-26
Aero L-29.jpg, Jet plane Aero L-29
Aero is a Greek prefix relating to flight and air. In British English, it is used as an adjective related to flight (e.g., as a shortened substitute for aeroplane).
Aero, Ærø, or Aeros may refer to:
Aeronautics Airlines and companies
* Aero (Po ...
An-2 Kaunas.jpg, Biplane 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 ...
LAM 2008-09 Mig-21.jpg, MiG-21
Lithuanian glider BrO-18 Boružė by Br.Oškinis, 1975.jpg, Glider BrO-18 ''Boružė'' (Ladybird), 1975. Smallest glider in the world.
References
Museums in Kaunas
Aerospace museums
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