The Aeronautical Museum Belgrade, formerly known as the Yugoslav Aeronautical Museum, is a

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located in

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, the capital of Serbia. Founded in 1957, the museum is located adjacent to

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. The current facility, designed by architect

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, was opened to the public on 21 May 1989.

History

In 1975

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, the national

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, donated of land for the museum and the museum later purchased further . Construction of the present building of the museum began in the mid-1970s. The construction work dragged on, so it was only in late 1988 that the setting of the first permanent exhibition began. The museum's new location was ceremonially opened on 21 May 1989. The museum owns over 200 aircraft previously operated by the Yugoslav Air Force (both

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and

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Serbian Air Force The Serbian Air Force and Air Defence (), is the air force of Serbia and service branch of the Serbian Armed Forces. Its mission is to guard and protect the sovereignty of Serbian airspace, and jointly with the Serbian Army, to protect territ ...

, and others, as well as aircraft previously flown by several civil airliners and private

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s. It also owns the only known surviving example of the

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glass building, with additional aircraft displayed on the surrounding grounds. The museum also displays the wreckage of a downed

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and

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, both shot down during the

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in 1999. In addition, the collection consists of more than 130 aviation engines, more radars, rockets, various aeronautical equipment, over 20,000 reference books and technical documentation as well as more than 200,000 photographs.

Collection

New 'Rocket and Radar' museum exhibition will be constructed. Existing missiles and radars in museum: *

P-15 Termit The P-15 ''Termit'' (; ) is an anti-ship missile developed by the Soviet Union's Raduga design bureau in the 1950s. Its GRAU designation was 4K40, its NATO reporting name was ''Styx'' or SS-N-2. China acquired the design in 1958 and created at ...

S-75 Dvina The S-75 (Russian: С-75; NATO reporting name SA-2 Guideline) is a Soviet-designed, high-altitude air defence system. It is built around a surface-to-air missile with command guidance. Following its first deployment in 1957 it became one of the ...

Gliders

Helicopters

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Piston-engine aircraft

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with Yugoslav Air Force markings captured and used by

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during World War II. File:P-47 YU 01.jpg,

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with Yugoslav Air Force markings. File:Polikarpov Po 2.jpg,

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Utva 213 Utva 213 Vihor was a late 1940s Yugoslavian two-seat advanced trainer. Design and development Designed and built by the Yugoslav state factory, the Type 213 was first flown in 1949, a cantilever low-wing monoplane powered by a Ranger SVG-770-C ...

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LF Mk VC used by Yugoslav RAF squadron. File:Predator MQ-1 (war trophy in Museum of Aviation, Belgrade, Serbia).jpg,

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Jet aircraft

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F-86D Sabre The North American F-86D/K/L Sabre (initially known as the YF-95 and widely known informally as the "Sabre Dog") is an American transonic jet interceptor. Developed for the United States Air Force in the late 1940s, it was an interceptor deriva ...

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Soko J-22 Orao The Soko J-22 Orao ( sr-cyr, text=Oрао, translation=eagle) is a Yugoslavian/ Serbian twin-engined, subsonic ground-attack and aerial reconnaissance aircraft. It was developed and built in collaboration by SOKO in Yugoslavia and by Avioa ...

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Operation Allied Force The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) carried out an aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The air strikes lasted from 24 March 1999 to 10 June 1999. The bombings continued until an a ...

File:F-117 Canopy (shot down over Serbia 1999, Museum of Aviation, Belgrade).jpg, Canopy of

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shot down on 27 March 1999, near the village of

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Sud-Aviation Se.210 Caravelle

Other

References

External links

Museum review by TravelDriveRace

Belgrade Aviation Museum

Музеј ваздухопловства-Београд
Званична интернет презентација Музеја ваздухопловства-Београд (у изради)
Aeronautical Museum-Belgrade
Official internet presentation of Aeronautical Museum - Belgrade (under construction)
Virtual tour through museumgallery of the planes
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