Aircraft Museum Dhangadhi is an

aviation museum An aviation museum, air museum, or air and space museum is a museum exhibiting the history and cultural artifacts, artifacts of aviation. In addition to actual, replica or accurate reproduction aircraft, exhibits can include photographs, maps, Ph ...

located in

Dhangadhi Dhangadhi () is a sub-metropolitan city and the district headquarters of Kailali District in Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. It shares a border with India in the south, Godawari and Gauriganga Municipality in the North, Kailari Rural Munici ...

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

some 500 km west from

Kathmandu Kathmandu () is the capital and largest city of Nepal, situated in the central part of the country within the Kathmandu Valley. As per the 2021 Nepal census, it has a population of 845,767 residing in 105,649 households, with approximately 4 mi ...

. It was established by former Nepalese pilot Bed Upreti and his trust on September 17, 2014, as Nepal's first aircraft museum. The museum is housed inside a decommissioned Fokker-100 plane, which is 35.53 meters long and was operated by

Cosmic Air Cosmic Air Pvt. Ltd. ( Nepali: कस्मिक एयर) was an airline based in Kathmandu, Nepal. It operated scheduled domestic and international services out of Tribhuvan International Airport. After already having been forced to temporar ...

until it ceased operations in 2008. Approximately 200 miniature commercial planes and fighter jets are on display. In addition to the miniature planes, there is an aerial photo gallery and a cockpit café. The revenue generated by the museum is used to assist cancer patients. A second museum, the Aviation Museum Kathmandu, has been established in the capital of Nepal,

by Bed Upreti Trust in 2017 following the success of the Aircraft Museum Dhangadhi.

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