The Lithuanian Aviation Museum is located in

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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

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s of various times, and designed during the

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of Lithuania first combat aircraft the

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. 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

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, 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,

Antonov An-24.jpg, Former

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An-2 Kaunas.jpg, Biplane

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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 {{aerospace-museum-stub