Chinese Aviation Museum

Chinese Aviation Museum is located in the Xiaotangshan Town of Changping District, about 20 kilometers away from the downtown. One can arrive there by taking a bus. Focusing on plane heritages, integrating aviation review, aviation popular science, aviation sports and recreation, it is the largest theme museum in Asia. It was being built since October 1986, and opened to the public in November 1989. In October 1990, it was formally named as “Air Force Aviation Museum”, and known as “Chinese Aviation Museum” by the public.

The museum occupies an area of more than 700,000 square meters, with the exhibition acreage more than 200,000 square meters. The acreage of cave depot exhibition hall is 23,200 square meters; the acreage of roofed exhibition hall is 3,500 square meters; the acreage of hypaethral exhibition hall is more than 190,000 square meters. Now there is a collection of 119 types and 299 planes, among which there are 47 pieces of Grade A cultural heritages such as the Transporter-5 that undertook the mission of spreading the ashes of Premier Zhou Enlai, 47 pieces of Grade B cultural heritages, with great values of collection and study. It also owns 2,468 pieces of large-scale models such as ground-air missile, radar, aviation bomb, aviation camera, aviation costume, aviation parachutes, aviation tyre, etc., more than 10,000 pieces of other cultural heritages, more than 20,000 volumes of aviation books, and 1021 pieces of gifts of friendly relationships.

The exterior exhibition area of the aviation museum, according to the visiting route, is divided into: transporter, helicopter, special purpose plane, special plane for great men, bomber, fighter, aviation radar, missile and guns, etc. To meet the requirements of the situation and the development of aviation, various special-topic high-quality exhibitions have been held, such as “Review of a hundred years of aviation”, “Review of the development of air force equipment”, “Exhibition of the establishment and development of air control in the nation”, “Commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the victory of anti-Japanese war”, “Exhibition of aviation tyres”, “Exhibition of aviation kit”, “Exhibition of gifts from aviation industries both abroad and at home”, etc. A batch of high quality plane models, data and pictures have been introduced, and large-scale light boxes or colorful lamps are used to illuminate the dismantled plane and engine. The models in the whole exhibition hall have a clear layout, with explanatory words and pictures, so that audiences are greatly moved. It has received almost 10 million audiences including leaders of the Party, the nation and the army since its establishment. Mr. Yang Shangkun, the former President of China, wrote the inscription of “Ambition in the blue sky”. The museum has also received more than 200 foreign delegations including the American Congress Delegation.

Publishes at : 07-09-23 21:10

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