Open daily April to November at 8 Euro admission for adults, it has over 100 aircraft and 60 aviation motors. They are exhibited via both indoor and external displays, some outdoor craft cruelly treated by the surrounding higher altitude pine forest climate.
For us the outdoor stars were the old Russian MIGs and Sukhois from the Cold War eras, but jet fighter fans can also see the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter (grimly dubbed Widowmaker in Luftwaffe service); Saab’s Viggen, Tornado and Phantoms. Most brutal is Mach 2-capability of the two-jet-engines-and-stub-wings layout that created BAC-English Electric’s Lightning supersonic warriors.
The cafeteria is within a Concorde mock-up and the variety of civilian planes is outstanding, especially Russian Ilyushins, Antovs.
More familiar for Brits are the VC10 (in UAE livery in our pictures), Viscount and the American Lockheed Super Constellation of the type that regularly plied the Atlantic from Heathrow to New York via Shannon and Iceland. The museum example was used in an historic German political mission to recover thousands of captured Germans many years after WW2 ended.
