Established Built in 1979 Type Aviation museum Website website Phone +34 915 09 16 90 | Location Madrid Public transit access Line 10 (Madrid Metro) Province Community of Madrid | |
Address A-5, Km. 10,700, 28024 Madrid, Spain Hours Open today · 10AM–2PMWednesday10AM–2PMThursday10AM–2PMFriday10AM–2PMSaturday10AM–2PMSunday10AM–2PMMondayClosedTuesday10AM–2PMSuggest an edit Similar Museo Naval de Madrid, Museo del Traje, Monument to Alfonso XII, National Archaeological Museum, Railway Museum | ||
The Museo del Aire, full title in Spanish Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica o Museo del Aire, is an aviation museum located in the outskirts of Madrid at Cuatro Vientos Airport, Spain. The museum was founded in 1981, and offers six exhibition galleries and it has about 150 aircraft on display.
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Cuatro Vientos was inaugurated in 1911 and is Spain’s first military airfield. The airfield, although surrounded by construction, is still in use.
Museum displays
The museum facilities extend over a surface of more than 66,000 m2, including outdoor displays and seven hangars. There are mainly planes and helicopters, many of which have previously served in the Spanish Air Force. Visitors will also find hundreds of miniature aircraft models, uniforms, engines, weapons and many other aviation related objects.
Aircraft on display include a Vilanova Acedo, Spanish version of the Blériot XI built in 1911, the Jesús del Gran Poder, a special version of the Breguet 19 used on the transatlantic flight to Asia and America between 1928 and 1929, a few aircraft of the Spanish Republican Air Force, as well as the famous de Havilland Dragon Rapide used by Francisco Franco from the Canary Islands to Tétouan at the start of the military rebellion which began the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
Of special interest are also the Spanish versions of the Heinkel He 111 and the Junkers Ju 52.
Visitors
Ways to get there
There is no access from the airport to the museum, and this is surrounded by a confusing number of roads.
Aircraft exhibits
Source: Odgen 2009The museum has over 150 aircraft exhibited in outdoor and indoor displays. Over 50 others are not on display, but can often be seen around the site.
List of selected aircraft on display (individual examples already noted or illustrated in Wikimedia projects)