Colonel Jaime Meregalli Aeronautical Museum
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Former name
- National Aviation Museum
- Aeronautical Museum
Established8 August 1954
LocationCiudad de la Costa, Canelones
Museo Aeronáutico Cnel. (Av.) Jaime Meregalli | |
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| Established | 8 August 1954 |
| Location | Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones |
| Coordinates | 34°50′23″S 56°00′59″W / 34.839681°S 56.016266°W |
| Type | Aviation museum |
| Founder | Colonel (Av.) Jaime Meregalli |
| Website | fau |
The Colonel Jaime Meregalli Aeronautical Museum in an aviation museum located in Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones.
Originating from an exhibition at Capitan Boiso Lanza Air Base, the museum was founded on 8 August 1954 by Colonel (Av.) Jaime Meregalli. The museum was moved a number of times in its early years, first to Air Base No. 1 in Carrasco and shortly thereafter to the Cilindro Municipal in downtown Montevideo.[1] It became the Colonel Jaime Meregalli Aeronautical Museum on 17 March 1993.[2] On 4 December 1997, the museum suffered a fire which damaged a number of aircraft in the collection.[3] Eventually, in 2013, it was moved to Carrasco International Airport.[2]
Collection
- Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan[1]
- Beechcraft T-34B Mentor[4]
- Bell UH-1B Iroquois[4]
- Bell UH-1H Iroquois[3]
- Bleriot XI[4]
- Castaibert VI[1][4]
- Cessna A-37B Dragonfly[3]
- Curtiss-Wright SNC-1 Falcon[1]
- de Havilland DH.60 Gipsy Moth[1]
- de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk[1]
- DFS SG 38 Schulgleiter[4]
- Douglas C-47A Skytrain[5]
- Douglas DC-3[1]
- Fairchild PT-19[1]
- Farman[1]
- FMA IA 58 Pucará[2]
- Focke-Wulf Fw 44 J[1]
- Hiller OH-23F Raven[4]
- Lockheed 18 Lodestar[1]
- Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star[1][4]
- Lockheed T-33A[4]
- Neybar N.1[1]
- North American AT-6G Texan[1][4]
- North American B-25 Mitchell[1]
- Piper AE-1[4]
- Potez 25 A.2[1]
- Ryan Navion[4]
- Santos-Dumont 14-bis – Replica[1]
- Stinson 108-3[4]
