Museum of Aviation in Košice

The first Museum of Aviation in Slovakia. Since 2002, it has been presenting on an area of 4 615 m² almost 400 unique exhibits, which in an unusual way bring closer the history of aviation, the development of aircraft, aircraft engines and technology from the beginnings of flying to the recent past. 

The museum also offers the visitor an interesting insight into the history of read transport. Rare collections are exhibited in a special exposition.

The visitor will be amazed by Deperdussin, Spad XIII, Avia Bk 534 Blériot XI aircraft models and the Demoiselle aircraft model with a bamboo construction, which, together with other rare exhibits, are on display in the exposition Aviation Beginnings until 1945. As the only one in Slovakia, a legendary aircraft from the period of World War II, the German fighter Messerschmitt Me-109 G-14 is included in the exposition.

Aviation and Aircraft Technology Development after 1945 is represented by aircraft of Soviet construction, namely the type Iljusin Il-14 and Il-18, Jakovlev Jak-40 and Mi-8 helicopter. Visitors are looking for aircraft technology used in Czechoslovak and Slovak military air force: Suchoj Su-25K and Su-22M4, Mig-21F (MF, R, U), Mig-29, helicopters HC-102 and Mi-24. Technical icons here are Czechoslovak-made aircraft: Aero L-29 Delfín, Let L-200 Morava and Glider Let-13 Blaník. Children and adults will be interested in a tour of interior of the government charter flight Tupolev-154M. 

The unique Gallery of Presidential Airplanes was founded by the President of the Slovak Republic Rudolf Schuster. Exhibited here are mainly military aircraft: Mirage III RS (Switzerland), French fighter Mirage IIIE, Lockheed F-104S Startfighter from Italy, Northrop NF-5FA (Greece), Mc Donell Douglas F-4F Phantom (Germany), Saab J-37 Viggen (Sweden), Saab J-35 Draken (Austria). Nanchang Q-5 from China is unique in Europe. Helicopters are represented by Sa-313 Aloutte II from Belgium, Bell UH-1 Iroquis from USA and Russian Polikarpov PO-2 Kukuruznik. From Ukraine there is SU-15MT aircraft and a launcher with an imitation of the SS-24 Scalpel missile warhead. 

GOLDEN ERA OF CZECHOSLOVAK AVIATION

The Golden Era of Czechoslovak Aviation exhibition is historically linked to the successes of our common Czechoslovak aviation industry. This period is mainly associated with the development and production of training aircraft of the Aero L-29 Delfín and Aero L-39 Albatros types, when we became the world's leading manufacturer of training aircraft. This very fruitful period is connected with Košice as a place with a long-standing tradition of flight training, personified in both of the aforementioned types of aircraft. The beginning of the exhibition was an international conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the chief designer of the L-39, Ing. Ján Vlček. The L-39 aircraft fuselage number 0001 was presented on the area. Together with the AI-25W power unit and several artifacts, they became the first exhibits of the new exhibition. After three years of restoration, repairs and replacements, another type of Albatros L-39V fuselage number 0745 was added along with the KT-04 air target. Both types represent the successes of our military aviation in the field of training our and foreign pilot trainees.

The exposition Aviation Technologies – Development of Aircraft Structures presents rare aircraft engines: Austro-Daimler (1916), Salmson Canton-Unné (1916), Walter Scolar (1936), Rolls-Royce Merlin (1940 – 1945), BMW - 801 (1942 – 1944) and Junkers Jumo 004 and other technical uniqueness that determined the development of aviation in the world. 

The Exposition of Road Transport was created in the cooperation with the Veteran Club Cassovia Retro Košice. It shows exclusive veterans of historical bicycles, motorcycles, cars and trucks. The vehicles characterize mainly Czechoslovak production. Of the more valuable exhibits, there are Tatra 57 (1932), Praga piccolo (1934) and Opel Kapitan (1950). A rarity is Citroën (1939) and the 6-cylinder Chevrolet (1940). From motorcycles are presented the pre-war ČZ Jawa – pérák and Jawa Minor Roadster and many others.