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| Established | 18 October 1976 |
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| Location | Campo dos Afonsos, Brazil |
| Type | Aviation museum |
| Website | www.musal.aer.mil.br |
Museu Aeroespacial is a national aviation museum located in the West Side of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the Administrative Region of Realengo. The place is known as "the Brazilian Aviation cradle".[1]
Av. Marechal Fontenelle, 2000 - Campo dos Afonsos (Realengo), Rio de Janeiro/RJ
The Museu Aeroespacial (Aerospace Museum) was inaugurated on 18 October 1976 at the installations of the old Escola de Aeronáutica (former Brazilian Air Force officer graduation school, replaced by the Academia da Força Aérea), at Afonsos Air Force Base—the "Cradle of Military Aviation", in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The idea of an "Aeronautical Museum" dates from 1943 when the Minister of Aeronautics, Dr. Salgado Filho, determined its organization, but the initial work and subsequent attempts were interrupted by lack of suitable space and installations.
Given the explanatory memorandum from Lieutenant Brigadier Joelmir Campos do Araripe Macedo, Minister of Aeronautics, President Emilio Garrastazu Medici established the nucleus of the Aerospace Museum on July 31, 1973, through Decree No. 72552. Building and hangar restoration started in January 1974, at the same time as the collection and restoration of aircraft, engines, weapons, documents, photographs, maps, paintings, memorabilia and other items of historical value.
The Aerospace Museum is part of the University of the Air Force's campus (UNIFA), being administratively subordinate to the Historic-Cultural Institute of Aeronautics (INCA) since 1986.
The following aircraft are on permanent display at the museum, some of them in flyable condition:
| Designation | FAB desig | Identity | Notes | Image |
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| Aerotec Uirapuru | T-23 | PP-ZTT | ||
| Beechcraft D17S Staggerwing | UC-43 | 2778 | ||
| Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan | T-11 | 1371 | ||
| Beechcraft D18S | UC-45 | 2856 | ||
| Bell 47J | H-13J | 8510 | not on display Sept. 2012 | |
| Bell 206 JetRanger | VH-4 | 8571 | ||
| Bensen B-8M | PP-ZWR | Gyrocopter | ||
| Boeing-Stearman A75L3 | K132 | 
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| Bücker Bü 131D-2 Jungmann | FAB 07 | |||
| CAP-4 Paulistinha | PP-TJR | |||
| Caudron G.3 | 
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| Cessna L-19 Bird Dog | L-19E | 3155 | ||
| Cessna AT-17 Bobcat | UC-78B | 22 | ||
| Cessna T-37 | T-37C | 0922 | ||
| CNNA HL-6B | PP-RHW | |||
| Consolidated PBY Catalina | C-10A | 6527 | Canso A | |
| Curtiss C-46 Commando | C-46 | 2058 | ||
| Curtiss Fledgling | J-2 | K-263 | 
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| Curtiss P-40N | P-40N | 4064 | 
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| Dassault Mirage IIIEBR | F-103E | 4913 | ||
| De Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide | PP-VAN | 
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| De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth | 12HI | 105 | 
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| De Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo | C-115 | 2371 | ||
| Douglas A-20K Havoc | A-20K | 6085 | ||
| Douglas B-26 Invader | A-26 | 5159 | ||
| Douglas C-47 Skytrain | C-47 | 2009 | ||
| Douglas DC-3 | PP-AVJ | Aerovias Brasil | ||
| Eipper Quicksilver MXL | Microlight | |||
| Embraer EMB 326 Xavante | AT-26 | 4525 | frame on display carries AT-26-4462 Sept. 2012 | |
| Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante | YC-95 | 2130 | Prototype | |
| Aeritalia/Macchi/EMBRAER AMX | YA-1 | 4201 | Prototype | |
| Fairchild 22-C7G | PP-TBD | Aeroclube de Ribeião Preto | ||
| Fairchild 24-W41 Forwarder | UC-61A | 2683 | ||
| Fairchild PT-19 Cornell | PT-19 | 0500 | ||
| Fairchild PT-26 Cornell | PT-26 | 0310 | not on display Sept. 2012 | |
| Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar | C-119G | 2305 | not on public display Sept. 2012, can be seen in adjacent maintenance hangar | 
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| Fairchild Hiller FH-1100 | PP-EFN | |||
| Focke-Wulf Fw 44 | 11AvN | 161 | ||
| Focke-Wulf Fw 58B-2 Weihe | AT-Fw | 1530 | ||
| Fokker S.11 | T-21 | 0789 | not on display Sept. 2012 | |
| Fokker S.12 | T-22 | 0811 | not on display Sept. 2012 | |
| Fouga CM.170 Magister | T-24 | 1720 | ||
| Gloster Meteor F.8 | F-8 | 4460 | 
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| Gloster Meteor T.7 | TF-7F | 4309 | ||
| Grumman G-44A Widgeon | 14 | |||
| Grumman HU-16 Albatross | SA-16 | 6529 | ||
| Grumman S-2A Tracker | P-16A | 7016 | ||
| Grumman S-2E Tracker | P-16E | 7037 | ||
| Hawker Siddeley 125 | VU-93 | 2113 | ||
| Hawker Siddeley 748 | C-91 | 2504 | ||
| IPT-0 Bichinho II | PT-KYL | |||
| Jacobs Hols der Teufel | Hendrich Kurt's Glider | |||
| Lockheed F-80S Shooting Star | F-80C | 4201 | ||
| Lockheed F-104S Starfighter | MM6890 | Aeronautica Militare (Italian AF), marked 9-51, Sept. 2012 | ||
| Lockheed P-2E Neptune | P-2E | 7010 | ||
| Lockheed T-33 Shooting StarA | TF-33A | 4364 | 
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| Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar | C-60A | 2006 | ||
| Lockheed 188 Electra | PP-VJM | Varig | ||
| Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris | C-41 | 2932 | carries C-41-2932, Sept. 2012 | |
| Muniz M-7 | 13 | no marks, Sept. 2012 | ||
| Neiva Paulistinha | L-6 | 3095 | ||
| Neiva Regente | YL-42 | 3120 | ||
| Neiva Regente | L-42 | 3225 | not on display Sept. 2012 | |
| Neiva Universal | YT-25 | 1830 | ||
| Nieuport 21E.1 | N2102 | |||
| North American B-25 Mitchell | B-25J | 5127 | .jpg)
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| North American F-86K Sabre | 0014 | FA Venezolana | ||
| North American T-6D Texan | T-6D | 1559 | ||
| North American T-6D Texan | T-6D | 1617 | not on display Sept. 2012 | 
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| North American T-28A Trojan | N-703 | Marinha | ||
| Northrop F-5B | F-5B | 4800 | ||
| Pilatus P-3 | O-3 | 3182 | ||
| Piper L-4 | PP-TUF | |||
| Republic P-47 Thunderbolt | 420339 | marked 419662, Sept. 2012 | ||
| Santos-Dumont 14-bis | Replica | |||
| Santos-Dumont Demoiselle | Replica | |||
| Stearman A-76 | K210 | |||
| Stinson SR-10E Reliant | UCSR10 | 2653 | .jpg)
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| Vickers Viscount | VC-90 | 2101 | Presidential Airplane | 
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| Vultee BT-15 Valiant | BT-15 | 1072 | ||
| Waco CJC | C66 | |||
| Waco CPF-5 | C80 | |||
| Waco CSO | F154 | no marks, Sept. 2012 | ||
| Waco RNF | K162 | |||
| Westland Wasp HAS.1 | N-7039 | Navy | ||
| Also on site Sept. 2012: PT-ZJA Embraer EMB-140, PP-ZVB Embraer/FMA CBA 123 Vector, PP-ZTU glider, PP-ZDB IPT-16 Surubim, PT-ZBN dismantled, Boeing 737-2N3 VC96-2116 732, K162 biplane, VU9-2654 Embraer EMB 121 Xingu, 5701 Embraer EMB-314-ALX-Super Tucano, 4634 Aermacchi MB.326, U7A-2632 Embraer EMB-810, Embraer AT-26 Xavante-4462, G-19-0151 Embraer EMB-201 Ipanema, Lockheed B-34/PV-1 no marks, 4904 Dassault Mirage III, Douglas C-47 2015 | ||||
