The Colonel Jaime Meregalli Aeronautical Museum in an aviation museum located in Ciudad 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 |
History
editOriginating 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
edit- 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]
- Castaibert VI[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]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Hernandez, Angel H. (July 1997). "A 'Pioneering Spirit': Uruguay's Aeronautical Museum". Museum International. XLIX (3): 22–25. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ a b c "Museo Aeronáutico Cnel. (Av.) Jaime Meregalli". Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ a b c Romero, Álvaro (22 March 2015). "Visitamos el nuevo Museo Aeronáutico del Uruguay". ModoCharlie (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 March 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Asociación Amigos del Museo Aeronáutico Cnel. (Av.) Jaime Meregalli. Museo Aeronáutico". Arte Mercosur (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Aeronaves expuestas en el hangar". Museo Aeronáutico (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 December 2021.
Further reading
edit- Quirós, Alvaro (December 2014). "Entrevista al Cnel. (Av.) (R.) Alvaro Quirós respecto al Museo Aeronáutico "Cnel. (Av.) Jaime Meregalli"" (PDF). ALAS (in Spanish). Escuela Militar de Aeronáutica. pp. 78–79. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- "Museo Aeronáutico: Ayer y Hoy" (PDF). Alabes (in Spanish). Escuela Téchnica de Aeronáutica. 15 December 2010. pp. 28–29. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
External links
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