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DefenseItaly returns Ethiopian imperial plane
"Tsehay", built in 1935, exhibited at the AMI museum in Vigna di Valle
The Italian Government has returned the imperial military plane "Tsehay" (sun, in Amharic) to Ethiopia. The aircraft had been confiscated in 1941 and transferred to Europe during the fascist colonial occupation.... more
AirlinesArgentina: "plane of death" stops flying
Skyvan aircraft used by the national dictatorship will be exhibited in a museum
The so-called Argentine "death plane", the Short SC.7 Skyvan aircraft (registration number P51), has officially stopped flying. The ceremony that sanctioned the definitive grounding was held in the past... more
AirlinesAirplanes. Australia, Qantas says goodbye to B-747 with last flight
It took off from Sydney to reach a store-museum in California
Half century of service and more than 250 million of passengers: Qantas B-747 airplane ended yesterday its last flight with these numbers. This event was very important and awaited: plane took off from... more
MuseumsPrimoco UAV donated two aircraft to Czech museums
They are unique machines associated with many local championships
The Czech company Primoco UAV donated two Primoco UAV One 150 unmanned aircraft to Czech museums, specifically the Military Historical Institute of the Army of the Czech Republic and its Aviation Museum... more
MuseumsEtihad Airways: opening of museum with A-380 airplane fly-by and helicopters -VIDEO
Abu Dhabi, UAE - The inauguration last Saturday
Hundreds of visitors from around the world, attended last Saturday’s official public opening celebrations of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, were treated to a low-level fly-by of the Jean Nouvel designed museum b... more
MuseumsEtihad Airways signs important partnership
Abu Dhabi, UAE - With Louvre Abu Dhabi taht will officially open on November 11
Louvre Abu Dhabi today signed the first exclusive platinum partnership with Etihad Airways during a symbolic ceremony took place under the museum’s dome. It will officially open on 11 November as an i... more
Museums“MRJ Museum” at aircraft’s development and manufacturing site
Tokyo, Japan - It will open on November 30
On November 30 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) will hold the grand opening of the “MRJ MUSEUM,” an exhibition venue dedicated to the MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet), Japan’s first passenger jet c... more
MuseumsMIA and HistoryMiami Museum unveil Hall of Aviation Gallery
Miami, Usa - Aviation industry members past and present gathered to celebrate inaugural exhibition
Miami International Airport, in partnership with HistoryMiami Museum, unveiled its Hall of Aviation on March 23 during a grand opening ceremony attended by more than 100 community leaders and employees... more
MuseumsAirbus: Concorde MSN1 airplane arrived at its new museum (VIDEO)
Toulouse, France - This model made its last flight in April 1985
One of the first Concorde jetliners built at Toulouse, France has made its final "Voyage" with the aircraft’s ground transfer to the Airbus-supported Aeroscopia museum site at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport. D... more
MuseumsItaly. Douglas DC-3 airplane transferred by crane to "Volandia" (VIDEO)
Varese, Italy - The only working model on display to public in Italy
"'Volandia'- 'Parco e Museo del volo', one of the largest aviation museums in the world- adds another piece to the collection of over 45 aircraft: the only Italian working model of a Douglas DC-3. 33... more
MuseumsSpitfire: the famous aircraft will fly again in English skies
Stoke, UK - The account of that engaging years from a veteran pilot
The Potteries Museum in Stoke, a small English city in Worchestershire region, launched an interesting initiative come on press yesterday February 19, 2012. Together with the veteran pilot Eric Carter,... more
MuseumsItalian Air Force: the return of the historical RO-37 bis aircraft
Varese, Italy - The only in the world to be restored and showed at the public
The historical RO-37 bis airplane, after almost 70 years and a long story, has been presented last Saturday at "Volandia" (Parco e Museo del Volo), created in 2007 near the Milan-Malpensa's airport (T1).... more
MuseumsItaly. "Volandia": roll-out of the historic Imam RO-37bis airplane tomorrow morning
Varese, Italy - The only restored and exhibited model in the world
Tomorrow, Saturday, January 21, 2012, at 10:45am, the ceremony roll-out of the historic RO-37bis airplane will be held at the presence of the Italian Navy Chief of Staff of the AMI, Air Force General Giuseppe... more
MuseumsItalian Air Force (AMI): yesterday presented the restored RO-43 aircraft
Rome, Italy - The plane represents the only model left
Yesterday, Thursday, November 17, after two years of planning and restoration, the only remaining RO-43 aircraft has joined the exhibition circuit at the historic Air Force Museum at Vigna di Valle (Rome). The... more
Museums"Immagini di volo" exhibition at "Caproni" museum in Trento (Italy)
Trento, Italy - Opened on last Sunday, it will last until next August, 28
It is called "Immagini di volo" ("Images of flight") the photographic exhibition that showed, on Sunday, May 29, from 10:00 am, a glance to Andrea Pozza's shootings, an expert author of air photography.... more
MuseumsTam Museum: 96 planes describe the story of aviation
Milan, Italy - Over 165 thousand people visited it in five years
Located in the municipality of São Carlos, on the outskirts of the State of São Paulo (Brazil), and created in 1993, the museum Tam, owned by Tam Airlines, among the major airlines in Brazil, is a dream c... more
Museums"Caproni": "The flight challenge. Original airplanes and helicopters from Museum's collection"
Trento, Italy - The inauguration tomorrow morning at 11; the exposition will be until next June 5
The exposition "The flight challenge. Original airplanes and helicopters from collections of the Museum", organized by the Italian Aeronautical Museum "Gianni Caproni", on the occasion of the "XIII edition... more
Museums"Gianni Caproni" Museum in Trento: the newness of the aeronautical collection
Trento, Italy - The Macchi MC-200 "Saetta" and Reggiane RE-2005 "Sagittario"
The permanent exposition of airplanes of Museum, already strong of 21 pieces of historical importance and rarity, is enriched of two aircraft that for the first time leave the storehouse to be showed in... more
Museums"Caproni" Museum in Trento. Aeronautical treasures: historical airplanes and art masterpieces from its store
Trento, Italy - Permanent aeronautical collection and collectioning of art dedicated to the flight
The "Gianni Caproni" Aeronautics Museum in Trento brings to light some of its treasures, until now never showed to the public and presents them inside two new permanent mountings dedicated to the aeronautical... more
MuseumsA new “Nose” for the Eurofighter airplane prototype DA1
Hallbergmoos, Germany - Equipped with Turbo Union RB199 engines
Eurofighter has delivered to the Deutsche Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim, Germany, a “real” radome for Eurofighter prototype DA1. The DA1, equipped with Turbo Union RB.199 engines, made its maiden fli... more
MuseumsBoeing to donate $5 million to new US Army Museum
Washington, Usa - It will open in 2015
The Boeing Company announced that it will donate $5 million to the National Museum of the United States Army to help chronicle and commemorate the Army's distinguished history, from the Revolutionary War... more
MuseumsThe exhibition area into the Parco and Museum of Flight, "Volandia"
Varese, Italy - The path is divided in five sections
The museum path in "Volandia" is divided in five exposition areas, besides the external park equipped at flight theme and wide indoor and outdoor areas dedicated to children and to the fun in general. The... more
MuseumsVolandia "Takes off": welcome on board
Varese, Italy - Inaugurated last Saturday the Malpensa Park and Flight Museum, among the world-wide largest
Born from the passion and the famous aviation tradition of the Province with wings, in a 60-thousand-meters area set up inside the Caproni's facilities old hangars, the Malpensa's Park and Flight Museum... more
MuseumsFinmeccanica and SELEX Sistemi Integrati inaugurate "Radar Museum"
Fusaro, Italy - The book “Il navigatore – Vita nomade di Carlo Calosi” has been presented
"Finmeccanica and SELEX Sistemi Integrati today opened the Radar Museum at SELEX Sistemi Integrati’s plant at Fusaro, in Campania region, Italy. The ceremony was attended by Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, C... more
MuseumsItalian Air Force: the Republic F-84G "Thunderjet" came back to Museum in Vigna di Valle, near Rome
Rome, Italy - The airplane in restoration phase at the 51st Wing in Istrana (Treviso)
"The Republic F-84G Thunderjet has come back to the Museum of AMI (Italian Air Force) in Vigna di Valle (Rome), at half of February, after a wide restoration phase. The airplane, entirely new thanks... more
Museums"Prova a volare" at the aeronautical museum "Gianni Caproni"
Trento , Italy - An interactive exhibition to become pilots... for a day
The aeronautical museum "Gianni Caproni" was inaugurated in 1992. Inside you can find historical aircraft, nine of them are unique in the world together with a lot of works of art which are in the permanent... more
Museums"Saluti, Franz": an exhibition dedicated to the pilot Francesco Baracca
Lugo di Romagna, Italy - Exposition of 24 postcards at Baracca's Museum
Francesco Baracca, also known as "Franz", was an ace of Italian aviation during the First world war. Last days in Lugo di Romagna (Ravenna) it was open an exhibition dedicated to him, at the museum... more
MuseumsItalian Aeronautics Museum "Caproni": "Prova a volare", the interactive exhibition
Trento, Italy - From the simulation of flight by the first airplanes to space exploration
"From April 19, 2008 to January 11, 2009 at 'Gianni Caproni', the Italian Aeronautics Museum in Trento, all can try the experience to become a pilot or a spaceman, thanks to the interactive exhibition... more
MuseumsThematic Park and aviation museum in Rimini
Rimini, Italy - It extends over an area of 80,000 square metres
Rimini hosts the thematic Park of the aviation which extends over an area of about 80 thousand square metres and on a pathways of over two kilometres. It offers a rare exhibition of post-war airplanes,... more
Museums"Volandia" (3): the project in details
Vizzola Ticino, Italy - Many areas for both the young and the adults
"‘Volandia 2010’ For the creation of 'Volandia' has been studied a museum project by experts of the sector, and approved by the Foundation's scientific committee. All the aircraft currently exposed wil... more
Museums"Volandia" (2): the aircraft exposed in the preview of last Saturday
Vizzola Ticino, Italy - A-109 and AB-204 helicopters, an Aermacchi C-205V airplane, a Siai Marchetti SM-80bis and the CA-1
"The overall project foresees about 16,000sm indoor and around 50,000 of open area. In the outside park there are: Agusta A-109 helicopter (in Italian Financial Police's configuration under a dome... more
Museums"Volandia": opens preview of Italy's greatest flight park and museum
Vizzola Ticino, Italy - Saturday the structure's inauguration, opening in 2010
"A theme park, but also a museum which aims at telling and celebrating the magnificent history of flight: this is - and will be - 'Volandia'. in the historical Caproni assembly shops, which have seen the... more
Museums"G. Caproni" Aeronautical Museum: the visit of the Brazil Embassy delegation
Trento, Italy - To celebrate the centenary of the first flight by Brazilian pioneer Alberto Santos Dumont
The centenary of the first flight by Brazilian pioneer Alberto Santos Dumont will be celebrated on August 25th, and on this occasion there will be the visit of a Brazilian Embassy delegation; in addition,... more
MuseumsInaugurated the hangar museums 4 and 5 dedicated to education, technology and aeronautical industry in Region Friuli Venezia Giulia
Udine, Italy - The expositive path at Parco del volo in Campoformido completed
"The lovers of history and aeronautical technology of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (FVG) have gathered in Campoformido again. The occasion was the inauguration, last June 23, of the hangar museum 4 and... more
MuseumsStarted the reconstruction works of the first historical Caproni: the first plane to fly over Malpensa
Milan, Italy - Thanks to a commendable initiative by Fondazione Museo supported by Italian Military Aviation and Varese province
The province of Varese counts an old tradition in the aeronautics field and can be actually considered the core of Italian Military Aviation, for this reason still known as "Province with wings". To value... more
MuseumsOpening on 2008 of a museum about the Arctic exploration history
Rome, Italy - It will be dedicated to the airships expeditions to the North Pole discovery
The idea to realize a museum dedicated to Arctic expeditions operated by airships has been promoted by Italian Assosiation at North Pole. The museum will be built in Svalbard and Longyearbyen Islands,... more
MuseumsConvention on the Italian Aeronautic Museum
Varese, Italy - It will be born in Milan-Malpensa airport in 2011
A convention on the new Aeronautic Museum, which will be hosted in the ex-Caproni assets at Milan-Malpensa airport from 2011, will take place tomorrow at Castello Visconti di San Vito in Somma Lombardo... more