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Cabeza - Photo credits / Frédéric Bourget Paris-Le - Aéroport design : musée de l’Air et l’Espace Graphic MUSEUM MAP 8 YAKOVLEV YAK-3 NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM OF FRANCE to the north Aéroport de Paris – Le Bourget terrace Pioneers Hall Aircraft on stationary display 3, esplanade de l’Air et de l’Espace BP 173 – 93352 Le Bourget CEDEX 01 49 92 70 00 www.museeairespace.fr to the tarmac Normandie-Niemen Hall The last existing original aircraft of the Normandie-Niemen OPENING HOURS Control Hall Fighter Group tower control of the Eight Pillars ENTRANCE The musuem is open all year from Tuesday to tower 9 DOUGLAS C-47 SKYTRAIN Sunday except on January 1 and December 25: access - from 10am to 5pm, from October 1 to March 31; to the tarmac - from 10am to 6pm, from April 1 to September 30. Free entry on the first Sunday of each month. Auditorium Roland Great War Hall to the south Garros terrace Download the “Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace” on your smartphone to enjoy exclusive World War II Hall app THE ABSOLUTE MUST-SEE DURING YOUR VISIT One of the most produced aircraft in history content during your visit! TO THE MUSEUM 10 DASSAULT MYSTÈRE IV A-01 EXIT 1 CLOCK: CHARLES AND ROBERT’S BALLOON, KNOWN AS “CHARLIÈRE” Normandie- Join us on social media : Ariane 1 and 5 Niemen Hall Prototype Hall Space Hall The first French fighter to break the sound barrier to the tarmac 11 DASSAULT MIRAGE 2000-01 Grande Galerie / Pioneers Hall An example of “balloon mania” at the end of the 18th century 2 DUPUY-DE-LÔME AIRSHIP BASKET Interwar Hall to the tarmac World War II Hall Cocarde Hall, French military aviation Helicopter Hall The prototype of one of the current French Air and Space Force aircraft to the tarmac 12 CONCORDE F-WTSS AND CONCORDE F-BTSD Grande Galerie / Pioneers Hall A 19th century arm-powered airship basket Aircraft on stationary display Cocarde Hall 3 POSTER: NADAR. LE GÉANT. FRANKFURT Grande Galerie Pioneers Hall An illustration of our graphic collections Languages Concorde Hall available The 001 prototype of the legendary supersonic airliner and the record-breaking Concorde Sierra Delta to the tarmac Security Super Hornet post 13 SOYUZ T-6 CAPSULE 4 SANTOS-DUMONT DEMOISELLE Ticket office Prototype Hall Information Gift shop L’Hélice Café The must-see Jaguar A91 Space Hall Grande Galerie / Pioneers Hall A genuine spaceship and one of the few objects to return One of the first mass-produced airplanes from space 5 NIEUPORT XI BÉBÉ 6 BRÉGUET XIX TF SUPER BIDON 7 PESCARA HELICOPTER 14 BOEING 747-128 POINT D’INTERROGATION Grande Galerie / Great War Hall Helicopter Hall Tarmac An aircraft emblematic of the World War I fighters Interwar Hall The beginnings of the helicopter The Jumbo Jet, the aircraft that revolutionised air transport The first aircraft to fly east-west from Paris to New York GUIDE MAP FLIGHT BOOK A QUICK PEEK INTO HISTORY... EMBARK ON A JOURNEY THROUGH AIR AND SPACE CONQUEST HISTORY The idea of an aeronautical conservatory appeared DOUGLAS AD-4NA SKYRAIDER as soon as the armistice of 1918. This innovative World War II Hall project was proposed to the Ministry of War by Pioneers Hall Prototype Hall Space problems also exist on aircraft carriers. Admire the ingenious solution found to stow the Skyraider and its Albert Caquot, director of the technical section The ‘‘Pioneers of the air’’ exhibition offers a journey through Recognisable from their metallic livery, the aircraft on display GO IN SEARCH OF time, from the first ascent in a balloon to aviation. Rare items, show the technological profusion of the postwar and “jet” eras, massive wingspan. of aeronautics. The agreement was given on 26 wooden and canvas aircraft, wicker airship baskets and ancestral from the first French jet aircraft to the vertical take-off and THE MUSEUM’S LITTLE- December 1918. DASSAULT MIRAGE F-1 C kites bear witness to the time of trial and error and the first landing (VTOL) prototype aircraft. KNOWN TREASURES spectacular flights. Cocarde Hall, French military aviation From 1919, the first “aeronautical collections” Concorde Hall Would you like to see through the metal or canvas were housed in a hangar at the Voisin factory in Great War Hall The only place in the world where you can visit two Concorde, fuselage of our aircraft? Then the Mirage F-1C is for you, to Issy-les-Moulineaux. During the winter of 1919, The ‘‘Great War’’ exhibition illustrates the development of the legendary French-British supersonic airliner! An exhibition penetrate the secrets of a fighter plane, where almost all the collected items were exhibited at the 6th military aviation, from its early beginnings in 1914 to its recalls the extraordinary observation of a solar eclipse in 1973 PAUL BERT PRESSURE CHAMBER the space is used. International Aeronautical Exhibition at the Grand affirmation as a weapon in its own right. It shows the growing by the Concorde prototype. Pioneers Hall Palais. On 23 November 1921, the aeronautical role of aviators and how air superiority became a critical issue But what on earth could this device be used for? Quantum SNECMA C-400P2 ATAR VOLANT museum was inaugurated in Chalais-Meudon in a for belligerents. World War II Hall teleportation, fitting room, space capsule project? Finding out Prototype Hall A prototype is for experimenting, sometimes even in very former aerostatic workshop built during the Great War. The aircraft on display bear witness to the air battles of the more about this object will take your breath away. Space Hall Second World War. American or French fighters, flying bombs surprising configurations. Go to the ATAR Volant (‘‘Flying Due to a lack of space, part of the collections were This hall tells the story of the conquest of space and the use or parachute drops, they show the use of the air force by the FABRE HYDRO-AEROPLANE ATAR’’) and look at the pilot’s seat. Would you be willing to moved in 1936 to Paris, on Boulevard Victor (15th of space by human beings, from the first French rockets to the different participants during World War II. Pioneers Hall embark on a flight in it? conquest of the Moon and the exploration of the solar system. Meet in front of the Fabre, the first seaplane in history. Look at arrondissement). The name “Musée de l’Air” was Normandie-Niemen Hall chosen. Although it closed its doors to visitors, the Probes, satellites and other space suits provide a better its engine, its wings! But in which direction does it fly? A clue: TRENT-900 TURBOJET ENGINE understanding of this formidable adventure. This commemorative space tells the story of the Normandie- the (fearless) pilot’s seat! Concorde Hall Chalais-Meudon site was kept for the museum’s Niemen Fighter Group and its pilots who fought the How big can an aircraft engine get? To find out, visit the reserves. Interwar Hall Germans alongside the Soviets during the Second World War. ZEPPELIN LZ113 REAR GONDOLA Trent-900, the engine powering the Airbus A380, whose Closed in September 1939 and partially destroyed This place evokes the golden age of Le Bourget airport, witness Decorations, uniforms and simple everyday objects bring to Great War Hall size is close to the fuselage of some aircraft. in June 1940, the hall on Boulevard Victor was to the era of the great North Atlantic raids of the 1930s, life the adventure of this famous unit. Meet in front of the gondola of the Zeppelin LZ113. It looks but also the beginnings of commercial and aerobatics. Mail big, but did you know that the size of the whole airship was CANADAIR CL-215 rebuilt and assigned to other army departments transport, passenger transport, long-distance races and speed Tarmac close to the size of the air terminal? It would fit inside, but not Tarmac in 1945. The collections on display in Paris were competitions are all evoked by these vintage machines. On the museum’s tarmac, civilian and military aircraft on by much! You all know its name, but only in part. It is yellow and puts returned to Chalais-Meudon. It was not until 1961 stationary display allow you to discover military transport out the fires. It often makes the headlines in summer. Did that they were once again accessible to the public Helicopter Hall aviation, maritime patrol and the development of airliners from FARMAN F-60 GOLIATH FUSELAGE you recognise it? on a regular basis. This area traces the path taken from the first tests by Etienne the 1950s to the present day. The tarmac also features two Interwar Hall Oehmichen to the high mountain rescue helicopters. life-size models of the Ariane I and Ariane V rockets built by the Would you have liked to fly from Le Bourget airport in the SPACE FOOD In 1973, with the creation of the new Paris- Numerous gyrocopters and military helicopters show the European Space Agency (ESA), the French National Centre for 1920s? Go and see the Farman Goliath, and imagine yourself in Space Hall Charles-de-Gaulle airport, the Minister of the range of missions and uses of rotary wings. Space Studies (CNES) and the Arianespace company for the the very relative comfort of this aircraft for a 2½ hour flight to Feeling hungry? Let yourself be tempted by a space snack Armed Forces decided to regroup the museum’s 1979 and 1995 Paris Air Shows.