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

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

located in Surčin,

Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

, the capital of Serbia. Founded in 1957, the museum is located adjacent to Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport. The current facility, designed by architect Ivan Štraus, was opened to the public on 21 May 1989.

History

In 1975 JAT, 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, 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 Fiat G.50.Marinkovic, Vlado
"Air Museum."
''pbase.com,'' 11 September 2010. Retrieved: 9 September 2013. The most valuable collections are housed in geodesic glass building, with additional aircraft displayed on the surrounding grounds. The museum also displays the wreckage of a downed

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F-117 Nighthawk and

F-16 Fighting Falcon The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic Multirole combat aircraft, multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superio ...

, both shot down during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia 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 * S-75 Dvina

Gliders

Helicopters

File:S-55.jpg, Sikorsky (SOKO) S-55-5 File:Ka 25-1.jpg, Kamov Ka-25PL File:Mi-8 at the Aeronautical Museum Belgrade.jpg, Mi-8

Piston-engine aircraft

File:Yu Hurricane.jpg, Hawker Hurricane Mk IVRP with Yugoslav Air Force markings File:Yu Yak-3.jpg, Yak-3 File:Bf109 messerschmitt.JPG,

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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, Republic P-47D Thunderbolt with Yugoslav Air Force markings. File:Polikarpov Po 2.jpg,

Polikarpov Po-2 The Polikarpov Po-2 (also U-2 before 1944, for its initial Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Aircraft designations, ''uchebnyy'', 'training', role as a flight instruction aircraft) was an all-weather multirole Soviet Union, Soviet b ...

File:Fizir FN.jpg, Fizir FN File:Kraguj.jpg, Soko J-20 Kraguj File:Utva 213.jpg, Utva 213 File:Yu Spitfire.jpg,

Supermarine Spitfire The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and other Allies of World War II, Allied countries before, during, and after World War II. It was the only British fighter produced conti ...

LF Mk VC used by Yugoslav RAF squadron. File:Predator MQ-1 (war trophy in Museum of Aviation, Belgrade, Serbia).jpg, MQ-1 Predator File:Ju52 Luftfahrtmuseum am Flughafen Belgrad.jpg, Junkers Ju 52/3m (exF-BBYB) outside the building File:C-47 in front of the Aeronautical Museum Belgrade.jpg, C-47

Jet aircraft

File:Belgr f84 thunderjet.JPG, Republic F-84 "Thunderjet" File:F-86D-Yu.jpg, F-86D Sabre File:Mig-21 yu.JPG, MiG-21F-13 File:Airplane J-22 orao.JPG, Soko J-22 Orao prototype File:Folland Gnat YU.jpg, Folland (Fo.141) Gnat F Mk.1 File:F-16 tail.jpg, Tail and canopy of F-16CG shot down during the Operation Allied Force File:F-117 Canopy (shot down over Serbia 1999, Museum of Aviation, Belgrade).jpg, Canopy of

F-117 The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is an officially retired American single-seat, subsonic, Twinjet, twin-engined, stealth aircraft, stealth attack aircraft developed by Lockheed Corporation, Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works division and operated ...

shot down on 27 March 1999, near the village of

Buđanovci Buđanovci (Serbian Cyrillic: Буђановци) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the municipality of Ruma, Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,244 residents (2022 cens ...

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File:Caravelle yu.JPG, JAT 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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