Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina

Coordinates: 34°40′18.05″S 58°38′12.45″W / 34.6716806°S 58.6367917°W / -34.6716806; -58.6367917

Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica (MNA)
Main hall, with Gloster Meteor (foreground), Huanquero (background) and Urubu (hanging from roof)
Established 13 January 1960
Location Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Type Aviation museum
Website Official website (Archived)

The Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica (MNA) (English: National Aeronautics Museum) is a museum located in the city of Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina, dedicated to the history of aviation, in particular the Argentine Air Force.

Its collection includes some unique aircraft, like the Pulqui I and Pulqui II fighter prototypes and a Latécoère XXV flown by Antoine de Saint Exupéry.

History

Gloster Meteor, at the previous location of the MNA, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, 1975
IA 35 Huanquero, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, 1975

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 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.

Collections

Latecoere 25, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, 1975
Percival Prentice, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, 1972
McDonnell Douglas MD-81 LV-WFN in 2009; currently donated to the museum

Aircraft on display include:

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.[3]

Other exhibits include:

  • an Anasagasti car, which was used by the Argentine Air Force.

Facilities

The museum is divided in differents halls, dedicated to specific themes:[4]

In addition there is a small gift shop.

Aircraft displayed

Other objects displayed

See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Cicalesi & Rivas, 2009. Page 36
  2. 1 2 FERNANDEZ VIVAS, Leandro. "Un millón de personas visitaron el Argentina Air Fest 2010". Rumbos Aeronauticos (Issue 18, Year 9) (in Spanish). Fuerza Aerea Argentina. Retrieved 2014-05-31.
  3. ↑ "Una nueva aeronave para el MNA" [A new aircraft for the MNA]. Aeroespacio (in Spanish). Argentina: Fuerza Aerea Argentina (Argentine Air Force). 27 February 2013. Retrieved 2014-05-24.
  4. ↑ MNA Website Archived 2010-06-07 at the Wayback Machine.

Sources

  • Cicalesi, Juan Carlos; Rivas, Santiago (2009). Núñez Padin, Jorge Felix, ed. Junkers F13 / W34 / K43 / Ju52. Serie en Argentina (in Spanish). 3. Bahía Blanca, Argentina: Fuerzas Aeronavales. ISBN 978-987-20557-7-6. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-24.

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). 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.
  • Luis Bogado (2014-06-14). "AVRO 671 La Cierva C.30A – Matr. LV-FBL – Morón" (in Spanish). Arqueologia Aeronautica. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  • "Río Cuarto: recuperarán un avión Junkers JU52" (in Spanish). Cordoba, Argentina: La Voz del Interior. 2016-02-25. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
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