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The National Aeronautics Museum "Brigadier Edmundo Civati Bernasconi" ( es, Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica) is an Argentine
museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make th ...
located in the city of Morón, Buenos Aires. Established in 1960, the museum is dedicated to the history of
aviation Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes airplane, fixed-wing and helicopter, rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as aerostat, lighter- ...
, in particular the
Argentine Air Force "Argentine Wings" , mascot = , anniversaries = 10 August (anniversary) 1 May (Baptism of fire during the Falklands War) , equipment = 139 aircraft , equipment_label = , battles = * Operation Independence * Operation Soberanía * Falkl ...
. Its collection includes some unique
aircraft An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to flight, fly by gaining support from the Atmosphere of Earth, air. It counters the force of gravity by using either Buoyancy, static lift or by using the Lift (force), dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in ...
, like the Pulqui I and Pulqui II jet prototypes, the Urubú flying wing glider, the I.Ae. 22 DL trainer, and a Latécoère XXV flown by
Antoine de Saint Exupéry Antoine is a French given name (from the Latin ''Antonius'' meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin. The name is used in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West Greenland, Haiti, French Guiana ...
.


History

The museum was created on January 13, 1960, by decree 264/60 of the President of the Republic, its first director and main supporter being
Brigadier Brigadier is a military rank, the seniority of which depends on the country. In some countries, it is a senior rank above colonel, equivalent to a brigadier general or commodore, typically commanding a brigade of several thousand soldiers. ...
Edmundo Civatti Bernasconi. It was initially located at the
Aeroparque Jorge Newbery Jorge Newbery Airfield ( es, link=no, Aeroparque "Jorge Newbery", ), commonly known as Aeroparque, is an international airport northeast of downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina. The airport covers an area of and is operated by ''Aeropuertos Argen ...
, where the aircraft were displayed in the grounds without protection from the weather. In the 1980s it was proposed to relocate the museum to provide protection to the aircraft, a new facility close to the Ezeiza airport was suggested. In 2001 the museum was relocated to the
Morón Airport and Air Base Morón Airport ( es, Aeropuerto de Morón) is southwest of the center of Morón, a western suburb of Buenos Aires in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. The airport is located within a densely populated metropolitan area. The runway len ...
, site of Argentina's first
international airport An international airport is an airport with customs and border control facilities enabling passengers to travel between countries around the world. International airports are usually larger than domestic airports and they must feature longer r ...
, where
hangars A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft. Hangars are built of metal, wood, or concrete. The word ''hangar'' comes from Middle French ''hanghart'' ("enclosure near a house"), of Germanic origin, from Frankish ...
were available to protect most of the collection. In February 2013, a
McDonnell Douglas MD-81 The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a series of five-abreast single-aisle airliners developed by McDonnell Douglas. It was produced by the developer company until August 1997 and then by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The MD-80 was the second gener ...
(ex- Austral, ''LV-WFN'') was donated to the museum, for restoration and exhibition. This aircraft is notable for having the highest number of flight hours worldwide for its type (70,444 hours in 60,350 cycles) as of March 2012, when it was retired.


Facilities

The museum is divided in different halls, dedicated to specific themes: * ''Motores'': displaying aviation engines. * ''Malvinas'': which includes a
Grumman HU-16 Albatross The Grumman HU-16 Albatross is a large, twin–radial engined amphibious seaplane that was used by the United States Air Force (USAF), the U.S. Navy (USN), and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), primarily as a search and rescue (SAR) aircraft. Origi ...
amphibian used in the 1970s to establish a route line between
Comodoro Rivadavia Comodoro Rivadavia () is a city in the Patagonian province of Chubut in southern Argentina, located on the San Jorge Gulf, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, at the foot of the Chenque Hill. Comodoro Rivadavia is the most important city of the S ...
and Malvinas (
Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...
). * ''Antartida'': for material used in
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
. * ''Pioneros'': dedicated to Aviation pioneers. * ''Torre de control'': details the interior of a
control tower 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 air ...
. * ''Pegaso'': to host events. * ''Icaro'': coffee shop. In addition there is a small gift shop.


Collections


Aircraft

Aircraft on display include: ;Fixed-wing *
Avro Lincoln The Avro Type 694 Lincoln is a British four-engined heavy bomber, which first flew on 9 June 1944. Developed from the Avro Lancaster, the first Lincoln variants were initially known as the Lancaster IV and V; these were renamed Lincoln I and I ...
B.2 ''B-004'', on display as ''B-010''Cater & Caballero (IPMS Magazine May 2013) *
Beechcraft AT-11 The Beechcraft Model 18 (or "Twin Beech", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. Continuously produced from 1937 to November ...
Kansan *
Blériot XI The Blériot XI is a French aircraft of the pioneer era of aviation. The first example was used by Louis Blériot to make the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft, on 25 July 1909. This is one of the most fa ...
*
Boeing 737 The Boeing 737 is a narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Renton Factory in Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retains the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating with two u ...
LV-WTK, donated by
Aerolíneas Argentinas Aerolíneas Argentinas, formally Aerolíneas Argentinas S.A., is Argentina's largest airline and the country flag carrier. The airline was created in 1949 from the merger of four companies and started operations in . A consortium led by Iberia ...
*
Bristol Freighter The Bristol Type 170 Freighter is a British twin-engine aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company as both a freighter and airliner. Its best known use was as an air ferry to carry cars and their passengers over relatively s ...
1A *
Dassault Mirage III The Dassault Mirage III () is a family of single/dual-seat, single-engine, fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by French aircraft company Dassault Aviation. It was the first Western European combat aircraft to exceed Mach number, Mach 2 ...
versions C, DA (''I-002'') and EA (''I-011'') *
de Havilland Beaver The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver is a single-engined high-wing propeller-driven short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft developed and manufactured by de Havilland Canada. It has been primarily operated as a bush plane and has been used ...
*
de Havilland Dove The de Havilland DH.104 Dove is a British short-haul airliner developed and manufactured by de Havilland. The design, which was a monoplane successor to the pre-war Dragon Rapide biplane, came about from the Brabazon Committee report which, ...
*
DINFIA IA 35 __NOTOC__ The DINFIA IA 35 Huanquero was a 1950s Argentina, Argentine twin-engined general-purpose monoplane aircraft built by the DINFIA. Development The IA 35 Huanquero was the first aircraft design from the DINFIA organisation (Argentina) to ...
b Huanquero ''A-305'' *
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single-seat subsonic carrier-capable light attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s. The delta-winged, single turbojet engined Skyhawk was designed a ...
, versions A-4P (''C-207'') and A-4C (C-322) *
Douglas C-47 The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (Royal Air Force, RAF, Royal Australian Air Force, RAAF, Royal Canadian Air Force, RCAF, Royal New Zealand Air Force, RNZAF, and South African Air Force, SAAF designation) is a airlift, military transport ai ...
A-85-DL ''TA-05'', modified as antarctic transport *
Douglas C-54 The Douglas C-54 Skymaster is a four-engined transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and the Korean War. Like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain derived from the DC-3, the C-54 Skymaster was derived from a civilia ...
(cabin) *
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 ...
B Mk.62 ''B-109'', the last one to complete a mission in the
Falklands War The Falklands War ( es, link=no, Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial ...
*
Fairchild 82 The Fairchild 82 and the 34-42 Niska were a family of utility aircraft produced in Canada in the mid-1930s, based on designs by Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada)'s parent company in the United States. Design and development In 1929-1930, Fairchi ...
D ''LV-FHZ'' (ex-''T-152'', msn 66) *
Fairchild Swearingen Metro II The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (previously the Swearingen Metro and later Fairchild Aerospace Metro) is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in Sa ...
(currently under restoration) * Farman HF.7 *
Fiat G.46 The Fiat G.46 was a military Trainer (aircraft), trainer developed in Italy shortly after World War II. Design and development The G.46 was a conventional, low-wing monoplane with Conventional landing gear, tailwheel undercarriage, the main u ...
, post-war military trainer *
Hercules C-130 The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally design ...
B * FMA IA 22 DL (c/n 728), trainer built by the
Fabrica Militar de Aviones Fabrica means a device in Latin, and derivative words mean "factory" in French (''fabrique''), Italian (''fabbrica''), Portuguese (''fábrica''), Romanian (''fabrica'') and Spanish (''fábrica'') among other Romance languages. It may also refer to ...
* FMA IA 27 Pulqui I prototype, the first jet designed and built in
Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived ...
* FMA IA 33 Pulqui II prototype 5, first swept-wing jet fighter designed and built in
Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived ...
* FMA IA 41 Urubú,
flying wing A flying wing is a tailless fixed-wing aircraft that has no definite fuselage, with its crew, payload, fuel, and equipment housed inside the main wing structure. A flying wing may have various small protuberances such as pods, nacelles, blis ...
glider designed by Reimar Horten *
FMA IA 50 Guaraní II The I.A. 50 Guaraní II is an Argentine utility aircraft designed at the DINFIA (successor to the "Instituto Aerotecnico" - AeroTechnical Institute) in the early 1960s. Design and development In the early 1960s, the Argentine state aviation co ...
''F-31'' and ''LQ-JXY'' * FMA IA 53 Mamboretá *
FMA IA 58 Pucará The FMA IA 58 Pucará ( qu, Fortress) is an Argentine ground-attack and counter-insurgency (COIN) aircraft manufactured by the Fábrica Militar de Aviones. It is a low-wing twin-turboprop all-metal monoplane with retractable landing gear, capa ...
*
FMA IA 63 Pampa The IA-63 Pampa is an advanced jet trainer with combat capability, produced in Argentina by Fabrica Militar de Aviones (FMA) with assistance from Dornier of Germany. Design and development Preliminary design studies for a replacement for the ...
''EX-03'' mock-up * Focke Wulf FW-44J, biplane trainer *
Fokker F.27 The Fokker F27 Friendship is a turboprop airliner developed and manufactured by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It is the most numerous post-war aircraft manufactured in the Netherlands; the F27 was also one of the most successful Europe ...
-600 ''T-42'' *
Gloster Meteor The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies of World War II, Allies' only jet aircraft to engage in combat operations during the Second World War. The Meteor's development was heavily reliant on its ground-breaking turb ...
F.4 ''I-041'', ex-''EE586'' * Grumman HU-16B Albatross *
Hiller UH-12 The Hiller OH-23 Raven is a three-place, military light observation helicopter based on the Hiller Model 360. The Model 360 was designated by the company as the UH-12 ("UH" for United Helicopters),Donald, David. ''The Complete Encyclopedia of ...
E *
Hughes 369 The MD Helicopters MD 500 series is an American family of light utility civilian and military helicopters. The MD 500 was developed from the Hughes 500, a civilian version of the US Army's OH-6A Cayuse/Loach. The series currently includes the M ...
HE * Israeli Aircraft Industries Dagger *
Junkers Ju 52 The Junkers Ju 52/3m (nicknamed ''Tante Ju'' ("Aunt Ju") and ''Iron Annie'') is a transport aircraft that was designed and manufactured by German aviation company Junkers. Development of the Ju 52 commenced during 1930, headed by German aero ...
/3m (WNr.4043) * Latécoère XXV flown by
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, simply known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (, , ; 29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of s ...
for
Aeroposta Argentina :''This article contains machine-translated text from the Spanish Wikipedia article Aeroposta Argentina S.A. You can help by improving this Spanish to English translation.'' Aeroposta Argentina S.A. was an early pioneering airline in Argentina ...
* Max-Holste 1521 Broussard * Morane-Saulnier MS.502 *
Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris The Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris is a French four-seat jet trainer and liaison aircraft designed and manufactured by Morane-Saulnier. The Paris was based upon an earlier proposed trainer aircraft, the MS.755 Fleuret. Following the failure of t ...
* North American F-86F Sabre * Percival Prentice T.1 *
Rockwell Aero Commander The Aero Commander 500 family is a series of light-twin piston-engined and turboprop aircraft originally built by the Aero Design and Engineering Company in the late 1940s, renamed the Aero Commander company in 1950, and a division of Rockwell ...
500U *
Vickers Viking The Vickers Viking was a British single-engine amphibious aircraft designed for military use shortly after World War I. Later versions of the aircraft were known as the Vickers Vulture and Vickers Vanellus. Design and development Resear ...
1B ''T-9'' *
Wright Flyer The ''Wright Flyer'' (also known as the ''Kitty Hawk'', ''Flyer'' I or the 1903 ''Flyer'') made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft—an airplane—on December 17, 1903. Invented and flown b ...
replica ;Rotary wing *
Bell UH-1 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 helic ...
H * Boeing Chinook * Bolkow Bo 105 *
Cierva C.30 The Cierva C.30 is an autogyro designed by Juan de la Cierva and built under licence from the Cierva Autogiro Company by A V Roe & Co Ltd (Avro), Lioré-et-Olivier and Focke-Wulf. Design and development Before the experimental Cierva C.19 M ...
autogiro An autogyro (from Greek and , "self-turning"), also known as a ''gyroplane'', is a type of rotorcraft that uses an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift. Forward thrust is provided independently, by an engine-driven propeller. ...
*
Sikorsky S-55 The Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw (company model number S-55) was a multi-purpose helicopter used by the United States Army and United States Air Force. It was also license-built by Westland Aircraft as the Westland Whirlwind in the United Kingdom ...
helicopter, ''H-04'' *
Sikorsky S-61R The Sikorsky S-61R is a twin-engine helicopter used in transport or search and rescue roles. A developed version of the S-61/SH-3 Sea King, the S-61R was also built under license by Agusta as the AS-61R. The S-61R served in the United State ...
''H-02'' used by the Presidential flight


Engines

* Napier Sabre IIA inline *
Packard DR-980 The Packard DR-980 is an American nine-cylinder air-cooled aircraft Diesel engine first certificated in 1930. The engine was unpopular despite its economy and reliability due to the unpleasant nature of its diesel exhaust fumes an ...
radial diesel


Other

Other exhibits include: *
Anasagasti The Anasagasti was the first automobile to be built in Argentina; it was manufactured by Horacio Anasagasti of Buenos Aires from 1912 to 1914. History Horacio Anasagasti was a student of German engineer Otto Krause. Shortly after creating his ...
car, used by the
Argentine Air Force "Argentine Wings" , mascot = , anniversaries = 10 August (anniversary) 1 May (Baptism of fire during the Falklands War) , equipment = 139 aircraft , equipment_label = , battles = * Operation Independence * Operation Soberanía * Falkl ...
* Pampa tractor


Gallery


Aircraft displayed

Image:AvroLinconB2VI.jpg, Avro Lincoln B.2 File:E-110 Beech 18 Argentine Airforce (7310442434).jpg, Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan ''E-110'' File:H-15 Bell 205 UH-1 (8164165838).jpg, Bell 205 (UH-1) ''H-15'' File:LV-WTX Boeing 737 Aerolineas Argentinas (7310854168).jpg, Boeing 737 ''LV-WTX'' File:TC-330 Bristol B170 Freighter Fuerza Aerea Argentina (7310839554).jpg, Bristol B170 Freighter Image:Canberra B-109 Museo Moron.JPG, English Electric Canberra File:E.a.-701 Dinfia I.Ae.22DL (7307046706).jpg, Dinfia I.Ae.22DL File:F-12 DH104 Dove Argentine Airforce (8164169390).jpg, de Havilland Dove File:P-05 DHC-2 Beaver Fuerza Aerea Argentina (8164164610).jpg, DHC-2 Beaver File:C-207 Douglas A-4P Skyhawk (7310427820).jpg, Douglas A-4P Skyhawk ''C-207'' File:C-322 Douglas A-4C Skyhawk (7310434418).jpg, Douglas A-4C Skyhawk ''C-322'' File:TA-05 Douglas DC-3 Fuerza Aerea Argentina (7310804244).jpg, Douglas DC-3 ''TA-05'' File:LV-FHZ Fairchild 82D (7310492834).jpg, Fairchild 82D ''LV-FHZ'' File:LQ-MLV Swearingen SA226TC Metro (8164120613).jpg, Swearingen Metro ''LQ-MLV'' File:Farman III (1).jpg, Farman replica File:E.a-441 Fiat G-46-5B (8164148796).jpg, Fiat G-46-5B image:FMA IAe27.jpg , FMA I.Ae. 27 Pulqui I prototype File:Pulqui II Argentine Museum.jpg, FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II prototype 5 File:FMA IA-35.jpg, FMA IA 35 Huanquero File:FMA-IA-50.jpg, FMA IA 50 Guaraní II File:FMA-IA-53.jpg, FMA IA 53 Mamboretá File:AX-01 IA58 Pucara Fuerza Aerea Argentina (7307048254).jpg, FMA IA 58 Pucará prototype ''AX-01'' File:EX-03 IA63 Pampa Argentine Airforce (7307045530).jpg, FMA IA63 Pampa prototype ''EX-03'' File:E.e-122 Focke-Wulf Fw.44J Stieglitz (8164152332).jpg, Focke Wulf FW-44J ''Stieglitz'' File:T-42 Fokker Fk.27 Fuerza Aerea Argentina (7310479070).jpg, Fokker F.27 T-42 File:C-041 Gloster Meteor F.4 (8164115201).jpg, Gloster Meteor F.4 File:BS-02 Grumman G-64 Albatross Fuerza Aerea Argentina (8164126911).jpg, Grumman Albatross File:Iriarte Ladrillo.jpg, Iriarte ''Ladrillo'' (experimental) File:Late01.jpg, Latécoère 25 File:TC-60 Lockheed 100 Hercules C-130B (8164172104).jpg, Lockheed Hercules C-130B TC-60 File:LV-LGR MBB Bo.105C (8164142622).jpg, MBB Bo.105C Image:MirageIIICC-721.jpg, Mirage IIIC File:PG-336 Max Holste 1521 Broussard (8164168086).jpg, Max Holste 1521 Broussard File:LV-ZIV Morane-Saulnier MS.502 Criquet (8164166412).jpg, Morane-Saulnier MS.502 Criquet File:E-207 Ms760 Paris Argentine Airforce (8164149358).jpg, Morane-Saulnier Ms.760 Paris File:C-122 NA F-86 Sabre Argentine Airforce (7307046176).jpg, NA F-86 Sabre File:E-390 Percival P.40 Prentice T1 (8164151272).jpg, Percival Prentice T.1 File:T-137 Aero Commander 500 Fuerza Aerea Argentina (7310800982).jpg, Rockwell Aero Commander 500 File:FAA H-04.jpg, Sikorsky S-55 H-04 File:H-02 Sikorsky S-61 Fuerza Aerea Argentina (8164125835).jpg, Sikorsky S-61 H-02 File:T-9 Vickers Viking Fuerza Aerea Argentina (7313012018).jpg, Vickers Viking


Other objects displayed

Image:anasagasti01.jpg, Automobile
Anasagasti The Anasagasti was the first automobile to be built in Argentina; it was manufactured by Horacio Anasagasti of Buenos Aires from 1912 to 1914. History Horacio Anasagasti was a student of German engineer Otto Krause. Shortly after creating his ...
, 1914 File:Packard DR 980 Museo NAciona de Aeronautica de Argentina.JPG,
Packard DR-980 The Packard DR-980 is an American nine-cylinder air-cooled aircraft Diesel engine first certificated in 1930. The engine was unpopular despite its economy and reliability due to the unpleasant nature of its diesel exhaust fumes an ...
engine File:Tractor_Pampa_(2).jpg, Pampa tractor, 1952


See also

*
List of aerospace museums This is a list of aviation museums and museums that contain significant aerospace-related exhibits throughout the world. The aviation museums are listed alphabetically by country and their article name. Afghanistan * OMAR Mine Museum, Kabul - inc ...


References


Notes


Sources

* * * Ogden, Bob. ''Aviation Museums and Collections of the Rest of the World''. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 2008. . * * Rivas, Santiago. "Pioneers & Prototypes: Pulqui, Pulqui II and IA-37/48." ''International Air Power Review'', Issue 25, 2008, pp. 162–173. Westport, CT: AIRtime. .


Further reading

* * * * * * * (Article about Pulqui I restoration and history, and when the MNA reopened at Moron)


External links

*
Museum
on Argentine Air Force (archived, 2 Jun 2008)
Museum news
official blog site
pictorial
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