Ulyanovsk Aircraft Museum

Ulyanovsk Aircraft Museum, also known as Muzey Grazhdanskoy Aviatsii or Museum of the History of Civil Aviation, is a public museum that displays Soviet aircraft which are retired from service, and exhibits over 4000 items. It is located next to the Ulyanovsk Baratayevka Airport in Ulyanovsk, Russia. The museum is owned by the Ulyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation.

History The creation of the museum was led by the head of the department of educational institutions of the USSR Civil Aviation Administration Darymov Yuri Petrovich and the deputy head of the center of the CA CMEA Vladimir Pavlovich Deldyuzhov.

In 1983, the museum was opened on the territory of the Ulyanovsk Higher Civil Aviation School. In 1989, the museum was awarded the honorary title of "People's Museum". In 1999, the museum became a member of the Association of Technical Museums of the International Union ICOM.

On 14 January 2016, an exposition dedicated to Air Chief Marshal Boris Pavlovich Bugaev was opened in the first hall of the museum in connection with the renaming of the institute, which owned the museum, from "Ulyanovsk Higher Civil Aviation School" to "Ulyanovsk Civil Aviation Institute".

Exhibitions The museum contains four halls that illustrates the history of aviation from the period of the Russia Civil War to the present, as well as simulators used for training pilots. lt also includes a photo-documentary exposition which reflects the main stages in the development of the history of Civil Aviation in Russia.

The museum exhibits 41 aircraft. All of the aircraft on display were transferred here after being decommissioned, some found by search groups and aviation enthusiasts in Russia.

List of aircraft on display AircraftRegistrationAleksandrov-Kalinin AK-1 (replica)R-RDAXAero L-29 Delfin125Antonov An-2RA-40561Antonov An-2TPRA-96235Antonov An-10CCCP-11154Antonov An-14CCCP-48104Antonov An-24CCCP-46761Antonov An-26CCCP-26503Avia Av-14MCCCP-91588Ilyushin IL-14MCCCP-91588Ilyushin IL-14PCCCP-06132Ilyushin IL-18DCCCP-74250Ilyushin IL-2833Ilyushin IL-62CCCP-86650Ilyushin IL-62MRA-8650Ilyushin IL-86CCCP-86062Let L-410AS TurboletCCCP-67252Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-25P04Mil Mi-1MCCCP-17411Mil Mi-4PSCCCP-35277Mil Mi-6CCCP-21868Mil Mi-8TCCCP-25564Myasischev M-101T GzhelRA-15122Polikarpov Po-2CCCP-1988PZL-Mielec M-15-01 BelphegorCCCP-15154Tupolev ANT-4 (TB-1)CCCP H-317Tupolev Tu-104CCCP-42322Tupolev Tu-114CCCP-76490Tupolev Tu-116CCCP-76462Tupolev Tu-124ShCCCP-45017Tupolev Tu-134AKCCCP-65748Tupolev Tu-144CCCP-77110Tupolev Tu-154BRA-85061Tupolev Tu-154B-2RA-85470Yakolev Yak-12MCCCP-56360Yakolev Yak-18TCCCP-44422Yakolev Yak-18TRA-44251Yakolev Yak-40RA-87299Yakolev Yak-40RA-87357Yakolev Yak-40RA-87653Yakolev Yak-42RA-42539

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Ulyanovsk Aircraft Museum

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