Museu Aeroespacial

Museu Aeroespacial is a national aviation museum located in the West Side of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the Administrative Region of Realengo. The place is known as "the Brazilian Aviation cradle".[1]

Museu Aeroespacial
Established18 October 1976
LocationCampo dos Afonsos, Brazil
TypeAviation museum
Websitewww.musal.aer.mil.br

Address

Av. Marechal Fontenelle, 2000 - Campo dos Afonsos (Realengo), Rio de Janeiro/RJ

History

The Museu Aeroespacial (Aerospace Museum) was inaugurated on 18 October 1976 at the installations of the old Escola de Aeronáutica (former Brazilian Air Force officer graduation school, replaced by the Academia da Força Aérea), at Afonsos Air Force Base—the "Cradle of Military Aviation", in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The idea of an "Aeronautical Museum" dates from 1943 when the Minister of Aeronautics, Dr. Salgado Filho, determined its organization, but the initial work and subsequent attempts were interrupted by lack of suitable space and installations.

Given the explanatory memorandum from Lieutenant Brigadier Joelmir Campos do Araripe Macedo, Minister of Aeronautics, President Emilio Garrastazu Medici established the Nucleus of the Aerospace Museum on July 31, 1973, through Decree No. 72552. Building and hangar restoration started in January 1974, at the same time as the collection and restoration of aircraft, engines, weapons, documents, photographs, maps, paintings, memorabilia and other items of historical value.

The Aerospace Museum is part of the University of the Air Force's campus (UNIFA), being administratively subordinate to the Historic-Cultural Institute of Aeronautics (INCA) since 1986.

Exhibits[1]

The following aircraft are on permanent display at the museum, some of them in flyable condition:

DesignationFAB desigIdentityNotesImage
Aerotec UirapuruT-23PP-ZTT
Beechcraft D17S StaggerwingUC-432778
Beechcraft AT-11 KansanT-111371
Beechcraft D18SUC-452856
Bell 47JH-13J8510not on display Sept. 2012
Bell 206 JetRangerVH-48571
Bensen B-8MPP-ZWRGyrocopter
Boeing-Stearman A75L3K132
Bücker Bü 131D-2 JungmannFAB 07
CAP-4 PaulistinhaPP-TJR
Caudron G.3
Cessna L-19 Bird DogL-19E3155
Cessna AT-17 BobcatUC-78B22
Cessna T-37T-37C0922
CNNA HL-6BPP-RHW
Consolidated PBY CatalinaC-10A6527Canso A
Curtiss C-46 CommandoC-462058
Curtiss FledglingJ-2K-263
Curtiss P-40NP-40N4064
Dassault Mirage IIIEBRF-103E4913
De Havilland DH.89 Dragon RapidePP-VAN
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth12HI105
De Havilland Canada DHC-5 BuffaloC-1152371
Douglas A-20K HavocA-20K6085
Douglas B-26 InvaderA-265159
Douglas C-47 SkytrainC-472009
Douglas DC-3PP-AVJAerovias Brasil
Eipper Quicksilver MXLMicrolight
Embraer EMB 326 XavanteAT-264525frame on display carries AT-26-4462 Sept. 2012
Embraer EMB-110 BandeiranteYC-952130Prototype
Aeritalia/Macchi/EMBRAER AMXYA-14201Prototype
Fairchild 22-C7GPP-TBD
Fairchild 24-W41 ForwarderUC-61A2683
Fairchild PT-19 CornellPT-190500
Fairchild PT-26 CornellPT-260310not on display Sept. 2012
Fairchild C-119 Flying BoxcarC-119G2305not on public display Sept. 2012, can be seen in adjacent maintenance hangar
Fairchild Hiller FH-1100PP-EFN
Focke-Wulf Fw 4411AvN161
Focke-Wulf Fw 58B-2 WeiheAT-Fw1530
Fokker S.11T-210789not on display Sept. 2012
Fokker S.12T-220811not on display Sept. 2012
Fouga CM.170 MagisterT-241720
Gloster Meteor F.8F-84460
Gloster Meteor T.7TF-7F4309
Grumman G-44A Widgeon14
Grumman HU-16 AlbatrossSA-166529
Grumman S-2A TrackerP-16A7016
Grumman S-2E TrackerP-16E7037
Hawker Siddeley 125VU-932113
Hawker Siddeley 748C-912504
IPT-0 Bichinho IIPT-KYL
Jacobs Hols der TeufelHendrich Kurt's Glider
Lockheed F-80S Shooting StarF-80C4201
Lockheed F-104S StarfighterMM6890Aeronautica Militare (Italian AF), marked 9-51, Sept. 2012
Lockheed P-2E NeptuneP-2E7010
Lockheed T-33 Shooting StarATF-33A4364
Lockheed Model 18 LodestarC-60A2006
Lockheed 188 ElectraPP-VJMVarig
Morane-Saulnier MS.760 ParisC-412932carries C-41-2932, Sept. 2012
Muniz M-713no marks, Sept. 2012
Neiva PaulistinhaL-63095
Neiva RegenteYL-423120
Neiva RegenteL-423225not on display Sept. 2012
Neiva UniversalYT-251830
Nieuport 21E.1N2102
North American B-25 MitchellB-25J5127
North American F-86K Sabre0014FA Venezolana
North American T-6D TexanT-6D1559
North American T-6D TexanT-6D1617not on display Sept. 2012
North American T-28A TrojanN-703Marinha
Northrop F-5BF-5B4800
Pilatus P-3O-33182
Piper L-4PP-TUF
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt420339marked 419662, Sept. 2012
Santos-Dumont 14-bisReplica
Santos-Dumont DemoiselleReplica
Stearman A-76K210
Stinson SR-10E ReliantUCSR102653
Vickers ViscountVC-902101Presidential Airplane
Vultee BT-15 ValiantBT-151072
Waco CJCC66
Waco CPF-5C80
Waco CSOF154no marks, Sept. 2012
Waco RNFK162
Westland Wasp HAS.1N-7039Navy
Also on site Sept. 2012:
PT-ZJA Embraer EMB-140, PP-ZVB Embraer/FMA CBA 123 Vector, PP-ZTU glider, PP-ZDB IPT-16 Surubim, PT-ZBN dismantled, Boeing 737-2N3 VC96-2116 732, K162 biplane, VU9-2654 Embraer EMB 121 Xingu, 5701 Embraer EMB-314-ALX-Super Tucano, 4634 Aermacchi MB.326, U7A-2632 Embraer EMB-810, Embraer AT-26 Xavante-4462, G-19-0151 Embraer EMB-201 Ipanema, Lockheed B-34/PV-1 no marks, 4904 Dassault Mirage III, Douglas C-47 2015

See also
  • List of aerospace museums

Notes
  1. Ogden (2008)

References
  • Ogden, Bob (2008). Aviation Museums and Collections of The Rest of the World. UK: Air-Britain. ISBN 978-0-85130-394-9

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