- Source: China Aviation Museum
The China Aviation Museum (Chinese: 中国航空博物馆; pinyin: Zhōngguó Hángkōng Bówùguǎn) is an aviation museum located in Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the People's Liberation Army Air Force and co-sponsored by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China. The museum is a national first-class museum accredited by the National Cultural Heritage Administration.
The China Aviation Museum was first opened to the public on 11 November 1989, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army Air Force. Part of the museum is located inside a cave in the side of Datangshan Mountain. The cavern was originally part of the tunnels and underground bunker system of Shahezhen Airbase, and is 586 metres (1,923 feet) long by 11 metres (36 feet) high by 40 metres (130 feet) wide.
Collection
There are more than 200 aircraft on display, with an emphasis on the Korean War and the Cold War. The collection includes many unique machines, including a 1903 Wright Flyer replica.
Aircraft on display include:
Aérospatiale Alouette III helicopter
Bell UH-1H Huey helicopter
de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver
de Havilland Mosquito
Douglas DC-8-21 (N220RB) once used by ORBIS International for eye surgery from 1982 to 1994
Fairchild PT-19
Harbin Z-5
Harbin/CHDRI Z-6
Hawker Siddeley Trident
Ilyushin Il-18V four-engine turbo-prop transport that was Mao Zedong's personal VIP aircraft
Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik
Lavochkin La-11
Lenin biplane
Lisunov Li-2
Lockheed D-21 Mach 3+ reconnaissance drone
Lockheed F-104 Ex Italian Air Force
Martin RB-57D Canberra
MiG-9
MiG-17 fighter (Cut-away)
MiG-23 Ex Egypt Air Force
Mil Mi-4
Mil Mi-8
Mil Mi-24
Nanchang A-5
Nanchang CJ-5
Nanchang CJ-6
Nanchang J-12
Nanjing Aviation College AD200 canard ultralight two seater student project sport aircraft
North American P-51 Mustang
North American F-86 Ex Pakistan Air Force
Northrop F-5E
Northrop F-5F
Shenyang F-5
Shenyang F-6
Shenyang F-7
Tachikawa Ki-55
Tupolev Tu-2
Tupolev Tu-124
Vickers Viscount
Yakovlev Yak-11
Yakovlev Yak-17UTI
Many bombs, guns and radar systems
See also
List of aerospace museums
References
External links
Chinese Aviation Museum homepage (in Chinese)
Datangshan info and links
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Lockheed D-21
- Hong Kong
- Prabowo Subianto
- Daftar monumen A-4 Skyhawk
- Chongqing
- Bandar Udara Internasional Kemayoran
- Boeing 747-400
- Bandar Udara Internasional San Francisco
- Registrasi pesawat
- Daftar museum di Tokyo
- China Aviation Museum
- List of aviation museums
- Tupolev Tu-4
- Civil Aviation Administration of China
- Lockheed D-21
- China National Aviation Corporation
- List of surviving Curtiss C-46 Commandos
- Antonov An-12
- KJ-1 AEWC
- Beijing Air and Space Museum