An aviation museum , air museum , or air and space museum is a museum exhibiting the history and artifacts of aviation . In addition to actual, replica or accurate reproduction aircraft , exhibits can include photographs , maps , models , dioramas , clothing and equipment used by aviators .
5-570: The Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen is an aerospace museum located in the German town of Friederichshafen near Lake Constance . The museum exhibits the aircraft designs of Claude Dornier , the Dornier company and aerospace products of Airbus . Displayed at the museum are Dornier aircraft types (including licensed-production), unmanned aerial vehicles , models and historical photographs, plus aerospace equipment including satellites . Exhibits include
10-715: The Dornier Do 335 ), Bristol Siddeley Pegasus 5–2 (Main engine for the Dornier Do 31 ), Rolls-Royce RB 162-4D (Lift engine for the Dornier Do 31) GEOS , ISEE-B , Ulysses – First inter-planetary probe to the poles of the sun, European Remote-Sensing Satellite 47°40′13.84″N 9°31′4.22″E / 47.6705111°N 9.5178389°E / 47.6705111; 9.5178389 Aviation museum Aviation museums vary in size from housing just one or two aircraft to hundreds. They may be owned by national, regional or local governments or be privately owned. Some museums address
15-523: The following aircraft types, among other things like a car and Startrek memorabilia: Bell UH-1D , Breguet Atlantic , Canadair CL-289 , Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet , Dornier Merkur , Dornier Do J Wal (Replica), Dornier Do 27 , Dornier Do 28 A1 , Dornier Do 28 D Skyservant , Dornier Do 29 , Dornier Do 31 E1 , Dornier 228 , Dornier 328 , Dornier Kiebitz , Fiat G.91 . A number of aircraft engines used by Dornier aircraft types are also displayed, among them : Daimler-Benz DB 603 (Powered
20-645: The ground or fly some of them. Museums that do not fly their aircraft may have decided not to do so either because the aircraft are not in condition to fly or because they are considered too rare or valuable. Museums may fly their aircraft in air shows or other aviation related events, accepting the risk that flying them entails. Some museums have sets of periodicals, technical manuals, photographs and personal archives. These are often made available to aviation researchers for use in writing articles or books or to aircraft restoration specialists working on restoring an aircraft. This aerospace museum–related article
25-513: The history and artifacts of space exploration as well, illustrating the close association between aeronautics and astronautics . Many aviation museums concentrate on military or civil aviation, or on aviation history of a particular era, such as pioneer aviation or the succeeding "golden age" between the World Wars, aircraft of World War II or a specific type of aviation, such as gliding . Aviation museums may display their aircraft only on
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