Lietuvos aviacijos muziejus | |
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 Lithuanian Aviation Museum | |
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| Established | 1983 (1983) |
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| Location | Kaunas,Lithuania |
| Coordinates | 54°52′41″N23°53′25″E / 54.87806°N 23.89028°E /54.87806; 23.89028 |
| Type | Aerospace museum |
TheLithuanian Aviation Museum (Lithuanian:Lietuvos aviacijos muziejus) is located inKaunas,Lithuania. The museum was officially opened in 1983. The permanent collection of the museum contains more than 18 000 displays of different fields of technology. The major part of the collection is dedicated to the history of aviation in Lithuania. It includes about 40flying machines, models of airplanes,flyers,gliders andhelicopters of various times, and designed during theInterwar period of Lithuania firstcombat aircraft theANBO I by GeneralAntanas Gustaitis. The museum is located at the airfield where the aviatorsSteponas Darius andStasys Girėnas were expected to land following their attempt at a non-stop trans-atlantic flight in 1933, and holds a flyable replica of their plane.
The museum was officially opened in 1983. It has variously been called the Public Sports Aviation Museum and then until 1995 the Lithuanian Technical Museum.[1] The museum is located at the airfield where the aviators Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas were expected to land following their attempt at a non-stop trans-atlantic flight in 1933. Darius and Girėnas crashed in an area that is now Pszczelnik, near theMyślibórz area,Poland and were both killed.[2] The remains of their plane, theLituanica are on display in theVytautas the Great War Museum, rather than at the aviation museum.[3] Entry to the museum is free on the last Sunday of each month.[4]
The permanent collection of the museum contains more than 18,000 displays of different fields of technology. The major part of the collection is dedicated to the history of aviation in Lithuania. It includes about 40flying machines, models of airplanes,flyers,gliders andhelicopters of various times, and designed during theInterwar period of Lithuania firstcombat aircraft theANBO I by GeneralAntanas Gustaitis.[5] A virtual tour of the museum is available.[5] The aviation museum does have a flyable replica of theLituanica.[1]
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