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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 Edmundo Civatti Bernasconi.

It was initially located at the Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, 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, site of Argentina's first international airport, where hangars were available to protect most of the collection.

In February 2013, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81 (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.¹

Facilities

The museum is divided in different halls, dedicated to specific themes:²

• Motores: displaying aviation engines.
• Malvinas: which includes a Grumman HU-16 Albatross amphibian used in the 1970s to establish a route line between Comodoro Rivadavia and Malvinas (Falkland Islands).
• Antartida: for material used in Antarctica.
• Pioneros: dedicated to Aviation pioneers.
• Torre de control: details the interior of a control tower.
• Pegaso: to host events.
• Icaro: coffee shop.

In addition there is a small gift shop.

Collections

Aircraft

Aircraft on display include:

• Avro Lincoln B.2 B-004, on display as B-010³⁴
• Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan⁵
• Blériot XI⁶⁷
• Boeing 737 LV-WTK, donated by Aerolíneas Argentinas
• Bristol Freighter 1A⁸
• Dassault Mirage III versions C,⁹ DA (I-002) and EA (I-011)¹⁰
• de Havilland Beaver¹¹
• de Havilland Dove¹²
• DINFIA IA 35b Huanquero A-305¹³
• Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, versions A-4P (C-207) and A-4C (C-322)¹⁴
• Douglas C-47A-85-DL TA-05, modified as antarctic transport¹⁵
• Douglas C-54 (cabin)
• English Electric Canberra B Mk.62 B-109, the last one to complete a mission in the Falklands War¹⁶¹⁷
• Fairchild 82D LV-FHZ (ex-T-152, msn 66)¹⁸
• Fairchild Swearingen Metro II (currently[when?] under restoration)
• Farman HF.7¹⁹
• Fiat G.46, post-war military trainer²⁰²¹
• Hercules C-130B
• FMA IA 22 DL (c/n 728), trainer built by the Fabrica Militar de Aviones²²²³
• FMA IA 27 Pulqui I prototype, the first jet designed and built in Latin America²⁴²⁵
• FMA IA 33 Pulqui II prototype 5, first swept-wing jet fighter designed and built in Latin America²⁶²⁷
• FMA IA 41 Urubú, flying wing glider designed by Reimar Horten²⁸
• FMA IA 50 Guaraní II F-31 and LQ-JXY²⁹
• FMA IA 53 Mamboretá³⁰
• FMA IA 58 Pucará³¹
• FMA IA 63 Pampa EX-03 mock-up³²
• Focke Wulf FW-44J, biplane trainer³³
• Fokker F.27-600 T-42³⁴
• Gloster Meteor F.4 I-041, ex-EE586³⁵³⁶
• Grumman HU-16B Albatross³⁷
• Hiller UH-12E³⁸
• Hughes 369HE³⁹
• Israeli Aircraft Industries Dagger
• Junkers Ju 52/3m (WNr.4043)^40414243
• Latécoère XXV⁴⁴ flown by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for Aeroposta Argentina
• Max-Holste 1521 Broussard⁴⁵
• Morane-Saulnier MS.502⁴⁶
• Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris⁴⁷
• North American F-86F Sabre⁴⁸
• Percival Prentice T.1⁴⁹
• Rockwell Aero Commander 500U⁵⁰
• Vickers Viking 1B T-9⁵¹⁵²
• Wright Flyer replica⁵³

• Bell UH-1H⁵⁴
• Boeing Chinook
• Bolkow Bo 105
• Cierva C.30 autogiro⁵⁵⁵⁶
• Sikorsky S-55 helicopter, H-04⁵⁷
• Sikorsky S-61R H-02 used by the Presidential flight⁵⁸⁵⁹

Engines

• Napier Sabre IIA inline
• Packard DR-980 radial diesel

Other

Other exhibits include:

• Anasagasti car, used by the Argentine Air Force
• Pampa tractor

Gallery

Aircraft displayed

Other objects displayed

See also

• List of aerospace museums

Notes

Sources

• Cater, Phil; Caballero, Ricardo (May 2013). "The Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica Buenos Aires". IPMS Magazine. United Kingdom: International Plastic Modellers Society. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
• Cicalesi, Juan Carlos; Rivas, Santiago (2009). Núñez Padin, Jorge Felix (ed.). Junkers F13 / W34 / K43 / Ju 52. Serie en Argentina (in Spanish). Vol. 3. Bahía Blanca, Argentina: Fuerzas Aeronavales. ISBN 978-987-20557-7-6. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
• Ogden, Bob. Aviation Museums and Collections of the Rest of the World. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 2008. ISBN 978-0-85130-394-9.
• Riega, Gilberto (March 1971). "A Buenos Aires, El Museo Nacional de Aeronautica de la Argentina" [At Buenos Aires, the Argentine National Museum of Aviation]. Le Album de Fanatique de l'Aviation (in French) (20): 16–17. ISSN 0757-4169.
• Rivas, Santiago. "Pioneers & Prototypes: Pulqui, Pulqui II and IA-37/48." International Air Power Review, Issue 25, 2008, pp. 162–173. Westport, CT: AIRtime. ISSN 1473-9917.

Further reading

• Esteban Brea (2012-03-13). "Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica: Más de medio siglo de preservación" [National Aeronautics Museum: More than half a century of preservation] (in Spanish). Gaceta Aeronautica. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
• Pavlovcic, Gabriel; Raczynski, Esteban (2011). Los Clásicos en los Cielos del Cono Sur: Nuestro Legado, Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica. Legacy (in Spanish). Vol. 2. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Argentinidad. ISBN 9789872667108. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
• Esteban Brea (2006-10-26). "La maduración del "Proyecto Morón"" (in Spanish). Pista18. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
• "Río Cuarto: recuperarán un avión Junkers Ju 52" (in Spanish). Cordoba, Argentina: La Voz del Interior. 2016-02-25. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
• Weissmann, Hilda. La ciudad se enseña (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Colihue SRL. ISBN 9789505816354. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
• "ASOCIACIÓN AMIGOS DEL MUSEO NACIONAL DE AERONÁUTICA" (in Spanish). ANAC. 2014-10-29. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
• "El Pulqui vuelve a sobrevolar la historia" [The Pulqui overflies history again] (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina: La Nacion. 2001-10-08. Retrieved 24 Apr 2019. (Article about Pulqui I restoration and history, and when the MNA reopened at Moron)

External links

• Official website
• Museum on Argentine Air Force (archived, 2 Jun 2008)
• Museum news official blog site (in Spanish)
• pictorial

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