National Museum of Aeronautics

Rafael Obligado 4550
Tel. 4773-0665
Open on Mondays from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.;
Tuesdays through Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Does not close on holidays

This attractive and instructive museum is located in front of the Fishermen´s Club in the Aeroparque area (local airport). On exhibition is the original basket of the "Eduardo Newbery" balloon, in which Eduardo Bradley and Ángel Zuloaga crossed the Andes Range on June 24, 1916, setting a height record of 8,100 meters.
In the park surrounding the museum, locally manufactures planes such as the Pulqui and Pulqui II are exhibited. When these planes were first manufactured, they placed Argentina 8th amongst the nations possessing this type of planes. Also on show are a Pucará plane and a Douglas C-47, modified in our country through the addition of a Marbore turbine to its explosion engine, with which it made its first transpolar flight in 1965.
Finally, another plane on exhibition at this museum is the Sky Hawk 240 that participated in the sinking and damaging of three English vessels during the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) War.