Aviation Museum in Ukraine

Aviation Museum in Ukraine

The first Ukrainian State Museum of Aviation was opened in Kiev. In the area of 15 hectares are presented the main types of aircraft and helicopters that served in the Soviet and Ukrainian Air Forces. The first visitors to the exhibition, which was established on the basis of academic airfield National Aviation University, became former president Leonid Kuchma, members of the Cabinet of Ministers, and of course, pilots and aircraft builders.

The opening of the museum was timed to several anniversaries: the centenary of world aviation, the 80-th Air Ukraine, and 70-th anniversary of National AviationUniversity. People visited the winged cars, and congratulated the university on the anniversary, wishing the scientists and educators to further strengthen the capacity of the domestic aviation industry.

Artifacts brought from the military units and factories. In the center of the exhibition is the layout of the first aircraft of the Wright brothers, a sample of 1903. Original, as is known, crashed in the first flight. All the other machines are real ones, many of whom came to the museum on their own.

In this museum there are some really unique items. Such as the Tu-104 th, tail number 0101 - the first in his series, and a private jet Voroshilov. Its interior is decorated with mahogany and other elements of luxury. Legend has it that after a very difficult but successful landing Clement Efremovich donated a car squadron, who piloted it.

A special pride of the museum - a supersonic bomber Tu-22M0. It was he who in 1969 was delivered to a hydrogen bomb test at Novaya Zemlya. Now being renovated a few more unique vehicles, which will eventually take their place in the exhibition.