Museum of Aviation

ABOUT MUSEUM

Ukraine State Aviation Museum is the largest historical and technical museums not only in our country but also in Eastern Europe. It was inaugurated in 2003 to mark the 100th anniversary of world aviation and the 80th anniversary of the National Aviation University. The museum is housed in the former aviation-training base (UATB) KICAE (now NAU), and assigned aircraft became the kernel of the collection of civil aviation.

The museum exposition is in sustainable development - from the initial 33 items increased to more than 90 aircraft, helicopters and drones that have been in service with the Soviet Air Force and independent Ukraine or operated in civil aviation. Over the years the SAM has become the center of culture and leisure state level, which is visited by over a million citizens and guests of the city.

There are also samples of air weapons and UAVs, as well as an exposition of aircraft engines. The museum fund contains products of almost all leading aviation Design Bureaus of Soviet period – Tupolev, Yakovlev, Ilyushin, Antonov, Sukhoi, Mikoyan-Gurevich, Kamov, Mil, Beriev (in full-scale), as well as replicas from the early twentieth century. The collections are formed according to the aircraft purpose, and according to belonging to a certain Design Bureau (further DB). Tupolev DB is an exception, with a separate "Backfire Collection" that includes missile-bombers Tu-22M.