Polish Aviation Museum

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Albatros B.II
Grigorovich M-15
Curtiss Export Hawk II
De Havilland 82A Tiger Moth II
Jak-17UTI
Lim-6bis in Museum (behind it - the "MiG alley")
LWD Szpak-4T
PWS-26
PZL M-4 Tarpan
RWD-13
SAAB J 35J Draken
SAAB AJSF 37 Viggen
WSK-Mielec M-15 (Belphegor)
TS-11 Iskra
WSK TS-9 Junak 3
BŻ-1 GIL (SP-GIL)
turbojet engine SO-1
turbojet engine Lyulka AL-7F

Polish Aviation Museum (Polish: Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego w Krakowie) is a large museum of old aircraft and aircraft engines in Kraków, Poland. It is located at the site of the no-longer functional Kraków-Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport.

The collection as of 2005 consists of over 200 aircraft, including sailplanes and some 100 aircraft engines. Several of the aircraft displayed are unique on the world scale. Some of the exhibits are only in their initial stages. The museum houses a large aviation library and photographic archives.

Collection

Fixed-wing motorized aircraft

The Museum also posseses some other incomplete aircraft and some stored.

Gliders

  • IS-1 Sęp bis
  • IS-3 ABC
  • IS-4 Jastrząb
  • IS-A Salamandra
  • IS-B Komar 49
  • IS-C Żuraw
  • S-1 Swift
  • SZD-6X Nietoperz
  • SZD-8 bis Jaskółka
  • SZD-9 bis Bocian 1A
  • SZD-10 bis Czapla
  • SZD-12 Mucha 100
  • SZD-15 Sroka
  • SZD-17X Jaskółka L
  • SZD-18 Czajka
  • SZD-19-2A Zefir 2A
  • SZD-21 Kobuz 3
  • SZD-22 Mucha Standard
  • SZD-25A Lis
  • SZD-43 Orion
  • WWS Wrona bis
  • WWS-2 Żaba

The Museum also posseses gliders, some of them stored.

Helicopters

Engines

See also