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Among the biggest collections in the world is the US Air Force Museum
in Dayton Ohio. Four huge hangars hold more than 200 aircraft, which show
airplane development of war fighting machines from WW I to current
generation of stealth technology. They are all displayed in immaculate
conditions in this superb and renowned collection.
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Former RAF Berlin-Gatow station today houses the GAF collection, that had
been relocated from Uetersen near Hamburg to the new German capital in the
early nineties. Most interesting is the collection because of the
amalgamation of hardware from East and West.
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The Czech Republic has a long tradition in aeroplane design through the
Aero and Let companies. It also licence-built German (Me-109, Me-262)
and later Russian types (MiG-15, MiG-21, Il-14). A good restrospective view on
the developments is given in the excellent military collection in
Prague-Kbely, which has in recent times put more attention on acquisition
and restoration of western aircraft types and sadly seems to suffer
from significant underfunding.
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Among the most impressive collections also is the Monino Air Force museum
near the Russian capital. The helicopter corner holds a good selection of
the Mil helicopter types, ranging from the Mi-1, -2, -4, -6, -8, -10, -24, -26
to the gargantuan V-12, several types of which can here be seen.
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The National Air Space Museum in Washington D.C./USA is one of the most
prestigious collections in the world. Not merely by its exhibits on the
Mall but rather because of the depot facility, which still holds numerous
one-off examples of aviation heritage. As it is not possible to display all
of them at any one time, one after another is receiving detail attention in
the Silver Hill facility outside the US capital to finally
be incorporated in a new museum complex on the Washington-Dulles Airport by
2003.
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