Aviation Aerospace Museum MUSAL Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Aerospace / Aviation Museum MUSAL in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
The Museu Aeroespacial – MUSAL (Aerospace Museum) was created in 1971, as an initiative of the then Aeronautics Minister, Ten.-Brig.-do-Ar Joelmir Campos de Araripe Macedo. That year saw the completion of the transference of the Air Force Academy to Pirassununga, leaving vacant the hangars at the Campo dos Afonsos, where since then the MUSAL is housed. Being subordinated to the Historic and Cultural Aeronautics Institute, the MUSAL is responsible for the keeping of a collection of more than fifty airplanes, as well as photographies, slides, maps and a library holding more than four thousand volumes, all of which are important documents of the history of aviation in Brazil. The MUSAL may be visited in the following hours (entrance is free):� Tuesdays to Fridays: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM Saturdays, Sundays and holidays: 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM closed national holidays The Museum has loaned artifacts to other museums for short periods not exceeding 45 days; no artifact exchange program with other institutions. The auditorium has 104 seats. The building plans for the future are currently with the construction of new office facilities and one display room. Enlargement of the museum’s aircraft display area by constructing five hangars and two buildings; project awaits funding approval. The conservation program contents large objects: periodic preservation work for aircraft received in air-worthy condition; extensive restoration executed on aircraft requiring such work, followed by periodic preservation and maintenance work. The indoor exhibition square footage is around 50,700. There have methods of exhibitry like as wall panels, display cases, labels only in front of large artifacts and thematic displays. Visitors per year: 41,000. The Museu Aeroespacial is not a foundation but a military organization within the Brazilian Air Ministry and subordinated to the Air Minister’s Office. The Museu Aeroespacial is unable to execute fund raising programs owing to existing regulations within the Brazilian Air Force which prohibit such activities. However, it is the current intention of the Air Minister’s Office to exempt the museum from such restrictions, giving it substantially more latitude to raise money.� The library accessible to the public. Public programs: 2 large-scale events per year, two air shows per year with static and flying displays of military and civilian aircraft; both events are one-day affairs, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.� Publications: participates in the editing of some publications issued by the “Instituto Cultural Historico da Aeronautica”. Tours for the public and school groups, guided tours for large groups.

Aircraft/spacecraft model collection: 64 on display, 40 in storage Aerotec A-122 Aerotec T-23 (3) Aerotec A-122B Beechcraft AT-11-BH Beechcraft UC-43-BH Beechcraft D-18S Beechcraft TC-45H Bell 47G-2 Bell H-13G Bell H 13J Bell 47G-2 Bensen B-8M Boeing B-17G-95-DL Bucker Bu 131D-2 Caudron G.3 Cessna L-19A Cessna L-19E (2) Cessna UC-78 Cessna T-37C CNNA HL-6B Consolidated PBY-5A Consolidated PBY-6A Curtiss Fledling Curtiss P-40N-20CU DeHavilland DH-82A Douglas A-20K-10DO Douglas A-26C Douglas C-47B Douglas C-47A EAY CAP-4 Embraer EMB-100 Embraer EMB-400 (2) Fairchild C-82A-FA (2) Fairchild C-119G-FA Fairchild PT-19A-FA Fairchild PT-19B-FA Fairchild PT-19 (FG) (3) Fairchild F-22 C7G Fairchild F-24R Fairchild-Hiller FH-1100 FMA Focke Wulf PW-44J FG-Focke Wulf FW-58B-2 Fokker 8.11 Fokker S.12	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7 Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 (2) Grumman J4F-2 Grumman SA-16A IPT-02b Nhapeczn IPT-0-B Bichinho IPT-16 Surubim Lockheed C-60A-5-LO Lockheed F-80C-10-LO Lockheed AT-33A-20-LO Lockheed P2V-5 Lockheed PV-1 Lockheed L-188A Morane Sauhier 7GD Microleve QS MX Microleve QS MXL Muniz M-7 Neiva L-6 Neiva N-591 Neiva YL-42 Neiva N-621 Niess 5FG (2) Nieuport 21E1 North American B-25J-25-NC North American AT-6C North American AT-6G North American AT-6D North American T-28B-1 Pilatus P.3-04 (2) Piper J3F-65 Piper J4A Piper J5A Republic P-47D-30-RE Republic P-47D-40-RA Santos Dumont� Santos Dumont Demoiselle Stearman A75L3 Stearman A76C3 Stearman PT-18 Stinson SR-10D Vickers Viscount V.782 Vultee BT-15 (2) WACO CJC WACO CPF-5 WACO CSO WACO RNF Weltensegler Hols der Teufel Westland Wasp HAS.21

and its address is: Av. Marechal Fontenelle, 2000 Campo dos Afonsos – Marechal Hermes 21740-000 Rio de Janeiro – RJ Phones: +55 21 357 5212 +55 21 357 5213 +55 21 357 5214 Local buses, routes 917 – Bonsucesso/Mal. Mallet and 745 – Cascadura/Bang� leave downtown Rio de Janeiro and pass close to the Museum.
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