Polish Aviation Museum

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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.

Contents 1 Collection 1.1 Fixed-wing motorized aircraft 1.2 Gliders 1.3 Helicopters 1.4 Engines 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] Collection

[edit] 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)
• 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Engines

AI-14R AI-24WT Alfa Romeo 126 RC 34 Argus As 10c Argus As 410 Argus As 5 Argus As 7 Argus As 8 Armstrong Siddeley Genet Austro-Daimler DM 200 Avia M-332 Avia M-337 Benz Bz.IVd BMW 132 Z BMW 801 D2 BMW IIIa Bramo 323 Fafnir Breda (lic. SPA 6a) Bristol Cherub I Bristol Pegasus X Clerget Blin 9B Daimler-Benz DB 600 G Farman 12 WE Farman 9 EFR Gnome-Rhône 9KRd Mistral Gnome-Rhône 9Ab Jupiter GTD-350 Hirth HM 504A Hirth HM 508 Hirth HM 60R Hispano-Suiza 12X Hispano-Suiza 82 Isotta Fraschini Bianchi V 4B Junkers Jumo 205 Junkers Jumo 211 Junkers L 8 Klimow M-103 Klimov VK-105 PF Le Rhône 9 Liberty L-12 LIT-3 (lic. Ivchenko AI-26) Lorraine-Dietrich 12 EB Lyulka AL-7F Maybach HSLU Maybach Mb.IV Mercedes Benz F-7502 Mercedes D.IIIa Mercedes D.IVa

Mercedes D IVb Mercedes E 4F Mikulin AM-34 Mikulin AM-35A Mikulin M-42 Mikulin AM-38F NAG C III Praga Doris 208B Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp PZInż. Junior PZInż. Major Typ 4 PZL Pegaz II PZL Pegaz VIII PZL WN-3 R-11 R-13 R-27 RAF 3A Napier RAF 4A Daimler RD-10A RD-500 RD-9B Renault 12FE Renault 6Q11 Rolls-Royce Eagle Mk IX Rolls-Royce Kestrel II S Rolls-Royce Merlin Mk XX 9D21 R-11 (SCUD) Salmson 9 AD Salmson Z-9 Siemens-Halske Sh 14 Wójcicki's ramjet engine Sunbeam Mohawk Shvetsov ASh-21 Shvetsov ASh-62 IR Shvetsov ASh-82 FN Shvetsov M-11 D Shvetsov M-11 FR Walter HWK 109-501 Walter HWK 109-507 Walter Minor 4-III Walter Mistral K-14 Wright R-2600-23 Cyclone 14 Wright Whirlwind R-975 WSK Lis-2 WSK NP-1 WSK SO-1

[edit] See also

• Museums and other visitors' points of interest in Kraków

[edit] External links

• Official website of the museum (in English and Polish)
• Satellite image from WikiMapia
• Images from the museum collected on www.airliners.net

Coordinates: 50°04′39.61″N, 19°59′32.7″E