ITALIAN AIR MUSEUMS

LARGEFLYER · **Joined:** Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:31 pm **Posts:** 181

I will be heading for Italy for 10 days around Thanksgiving and am looking for any Italian Aircraft Museums to visit while I am there. I plan on starting out the vacation in Rome and maybe branching out from there.

If anyone knows of any Aircraft Museums in Italy I would appreciate a reply.

Thanks!

Greg Witmer

lestweforget · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:13 pm

Lucky guy. Try this and bring some pictures back please!!!

http://aeroweb.lucia.it/en/museums/vigna.htm

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:53 pm

Check Mike Henniger's site at www.aerialvisuals.ca/Locator.php

JDK · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:32 pm

Good suggestion with Mike's Locator for the odd airframes scattered around.

Unarguably No.1 place is the Italian Air Force museum at Vigna di Valle, linked above.

We've been here before see:
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=28136

Sabremech's excellent report. Enjoy!
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=23844

August did a post on the Technology Museum, Milan, although the pics aren't available here.

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=21402

GARY HILTON · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:39 pm

Greg,
There's supposed to be a PV-2 Harpoon in, or around a museum somewhere in Italy.....If you should come across one there, please let me know upon your safe return! And if there was....some pictures would be freakinfabulous!....Have a good time!
Gary

JDK · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:43 pm

The other museum I managed to get to last year, and would recommend is the Gianni Caproni museum in Trento, right in the North.

http://www.museocaproni.it/prova-a-vola ... useum.html

It's by the airfield, but it was a swine to get to check your location and get a map / gps before going, as we had expected signs, and there weren't - we drove.

If you end up in Venice, the Naval Museum is great, ships models, two man subs and a display in the roof of the Swedish - Italian co-operation in Aviation and torpedo technology!

mrhenniger · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:56 pm

Pat Carry wrote:

Check Mike Henniger's site at www.aerialvisuals.ca/Locator.php

Thanks for the pitch Pat!

As Pat suggested, I try to make the Locator the first stop for searching for displayed aircraft. Here is a link to the Italian locations...

Aerial Visuals Locator Search - Italy
...I caution you the Locator does not get along well with Internet Explorer (ask me what I think of IE in a PM, I'll try to rant as little as possible). I highly recommend Firefox and Google's Chrome is very good.

Anyway, the list contains many locations, not all all museums, and not all are plublically accessible so be choosey.

If you can tell me where you are going I can help to narrow down the list a bit.

Mike

JDK · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:01 pm

Hi Mike,
Your link at Trento is actually the gate guardian at the Caproni Museum (link above).

http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/LocationDos ... erial=6352

mrhenniger · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:22 am

JDK wrote:

Hi Mike,
Your link at Trento is actually the gate guardian at the Caproni Museum (link above).

http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/LocationDos ... erial=6352

Thanks James! I'll correct that later today.

Mike

Michel Lemieux · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:48 am

Quote:

...I caution you the Locator does not get along well with Internet Explorer (ask me what I think of IE in a PM, I'll try to rant as little as possible). I highly recommend Firefox and Google's Chrome is very good

.

Ahhhhh...I see says the blind man. Tks Mike. I happenend that I was on the road this month for the first time in a year or so....JUmp to the locator but got funky stuff out.

Will give a spin with the Firefox.

BTW.......great / dammed good ressource for all the nuts present here :wink:

LARGEFLYER · **Joined:** Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:31 pm **Posts:** 181

Thank you all for the replies. It is going to be a fun trip. I am looking forward to seeing what is there aviationwise!

Greg

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