FAI Recommended Museums

The FAI Recommendede Museum Program exists to recognize worthy and notable museum collections of an aeronautical nature which are used to further the education of the public, particularly children, in the history and practice of air sport, aeronautics and astronautics, and/or commercial or military aviation. Museums are nominated by FAI Member National Ari Sport Control organizations (NAC's), previously known as National Aero Clubs.


Museum Links

Click on the links below to visit any on-line versions of FAI's Recommended Museums:

AUSTRALIA

  1. Air World Antique Aircraft Museum

FINLAND

  1. Suomen Ilmaillumuseo (Finland Aviation Museum)
    - Antique Aircraft
  2. Keski-Suomen Ilmailumuseo (Central Finland Aviation Musuem)
    - Military and Civil Aircraft
    - Suomeski
    - English
    - Svenska
    - Deutsch

GERMANY

  1. Deutsches Segelflugmuseum
    - Gliding
    - Hang Gliding
  2. Herman-Oberth-Raumfahrt-Museum e.V.
    - Space Flight
  3. Deutsches Museum München, Luftfahrtabteilung
    - Antique Aircraft
    - Balloons
    - Gliders
    - Helicopters
    - Military Aircraft
  4. Otto-Lilienthal-Museum
    - Hang Gliding
  5. Ballonmuseum Gersthofen
    - Gas Ballooning (Deutsch)

ISRAEL

  1. Israel Air Force Museum
    - Military Aircraft

ITALY

  1. Museo Aeronautico "Gianni Caproni"
    - Antique Aircraft designed by Gianni Caproni

NEW ZEALAND

  1. Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum
    - Military Aircraft

SOUTH AFRICA

  1. South African Air Force Museum - Swartkops
    - Historic and Military Aircraft
  2. South African Air Force Museum - Ysterplaat
    - Historic and Military Aircraft

SPAIN

  1. Fundacion Infante de Orleans
    - Historic and Antique Aircraft

SWEDEN

  1. The Andrée Museum
    - Andrée's Polar Balloon Flight
  2. Flygvapenmuseum (Royal Swedish Air Force Museum)
    - Military Aircraft
  3. Segelflygmuseum (Museum of Gliders)
    - Gliders

SWITZERLAND

  1. Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (Swiss Transport Museum)
    - Airliners
    - Air Traffic Control
    - Gliders
    - Light Aircraft
    - Model Aircraft
    - Space Craft

UNITED KINGDOM

  1. Scottish National Aviation Museum - Museum of Flight

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

  1. National Soaring Museum
    - Gliders


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Application Form

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Helicopter at the Keski-Suomen Ilmaillumuseo in Finland

 


Children on a tour at the Israel Air Force Museum

 


Part of the Collection of the Museo Aeronautico "Gianni Caproni" in Italy

 


From the Fundación Infante de Orleans in Spain

 


A view of the National Soaring Museum in the USA