Polish Aviation Museum

Polish Aviation Museum ( _pl. 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

* Aero Ae-145
* Aero L-60 Brigadýr
* Albatros B.II
* Albatros C.I (fuselage only)
* Albatros H.1 (fuselage only)
* Avia B.33 (Czech-built Ilyushin Il-10)
* Aviatik C.III (fuselage only)
* Bleriot XI (replica)
* Bücker Bü 131B Jungmann
* Cessna A-37B Dragonfly
* Cessna UC-78A Bobcat
* Curtiss Export Hawk II (fuselage only)
* Dassault Mirage 5
* De Havilland 82A Tiger Moth II
* DFW C.V (fuselage only)
* Farman IV (replica)
* Grigorovich M-15
* Halberstadt CL.II (fuselage and central wing section only)
* Ilyushin Il-14S (VEB)
* Ilyushin Il-28R
* Ilyushin Il-28U
* Yakovlev Yak-11
* Yakovlev Yak-12
* Yakovlev Yak-17UTI (Jak-17W)
* Yakovlev Yak-18
* Yakovlev Yak-23
* Yakovlev Yak-42
* Let L-200A Morava
* Levavasseur Antoinette (fuselage only)
* LFG Roland D.VI (fuselage only)
* Lisunov Li-2
* LVG B.II (incomplete)
* LWD Szpak-2
* LWD Żuraw (unrestored)
* The MAK - 30 supersonic flying target
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 PM
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 F-13
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 MF
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 bis
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 PF
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 PFM
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 R
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 U
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 UM
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 US
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 MF
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29
* North American T-6G Texan
* Northrop F-5E Tiger II
* Piper L-4A Grasshopper
* Polikarpov Po-2 LNB
* PWS-26
* WSK-Mielec M-15 Belphegor
* PZL M-4 Tarpan
* PZL P.11c
* PZL S-4 Kania 3
* PZL Szpak 4T
* PZL-104 Wilga
* PZL-105 Flaming
* PZL-106A Kruk
* PZL-130 Orlik
* RWD-13
* RWD-21
* Saab J 35J Draken
* Saab JASF37 Viggen
* Sopwith F.1 Camel (fuselage and central wing section only)
* Sukhoi Su-7 BKL
* Sukhoi Su-7 BM
* Sukhoi Su-7 UM
* Sukhoi Su-20
* Sukhoi Su-22 M4
* Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk XVIE
* Tupolev Tu-134A
* Tupolev Tu-2S
* WSK Lim-1
* WSK Lim-2
* WSK Lim-5
* WSK Lim-6bis
* WSK Lim-6M
* WSK Lim-6MR
* WSK MD-12F
* WSK SB Lim-2
* WSK SB Lim-2A
* TS-11 Iskra bis B
* TS-8 Bies
* WSK TS-9 Junak 3
* Zlin Z-26 Trener

The Museum also possesses 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 possesses gliders, some of them stored.

Helicopters

* BŻ-1 GIL
* BŻ-4 Żuk
* JK-1 Trzmiel
* Mil Mi-4 A
* Mil Mi-4 ME
* WSK Mi-2 URP
* WSK Mi-2Ch
* WSK SM-1 (licence Mil Mi-1)
* WSK SM-2

Engines

ee also

* Museums and other visitors' points of interest in Kraków

External links

* [http://www.muzeumlotnictwa.pl/ Official website of the museum] (in English and Polish)
* [http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?placesearch=Cracow%20-%20Rakowice-Czyzyny&distinct_entry=true Images from the museum collected on www.airliners.net]