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| Established | 1919 |
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| Location | Paris – Le Bourget Airport Le Bourget, France |
| Coordinates | 48°56′50″N2°26′6″E / 48.94722°N 2.43500°E /48.94722; 2.43500 |
| Type | Aviation museum |
| Website | museeairespace.fr |
TheMusée de l'air et de l'espace (French pronunciation:[myzedəlɛʁedəlɛspas],lit. 'Air and Space Museum') is a Frenchaerospace museum, located at the south-eastern edge ofParis–Le Bourget Airport, north of Paris, and in thecommune ofLe Bourget.[1] It was inaugurated in 1919 after a proposal by the celebrated aeronautics engineerAlbert Caquot (1881–1976).
Occupying over 1.5 sq km of land and hangars, it is one of the oldest aviation museums in the world. The museum's collection contains more than 19,595 items, including 150 aircraft, and material from as far back as the 16th century. Also displayed are more modern air and spacecraft, including the prototype forConcorde, and Swiss and Sovietrockets. The museum also has the only known remaining piece — the jettisoned main landing gear — ofL'Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird), the 1927 aircraft which attempted to make the firsttransatlantic crossing from Paris to New York. On 8 May 1927 Charles Nungesser and François Coli aboard L'Oiseau blanc, a 450-hp Lorraine-powered Levasseur biplane[2] took off fromLe Bourget. The aircraft jettisoned its main landing gear (which is stored at the museum), which it was designed to do as part of its transatlantic flight profile, but then disappeared over the Atlantic, only two weeks beforeLindbergh's monoplane completed its successful solo non-stop transatlantic flight to Le Bourget from the United States.
Other items of interest range include:
The museum completed a new 3,000 m2 (32,000 sq ft) storage hangar in 2024.[4]
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48°56′50″N2°26′06″E / 48.9471°N 2.4349°E /48.9471; 2.4349
