Aviation Museum Hannover-Laatzen

The Aviation Museum Hannover-Laatzen (German: Luftfahrtmuseum Hannover-Laatzen) is a permanent exhibition in Laatzen of the history of aviation. 38 airplanes, 800 aircraft models, and more than 30 aircraft engines are displayed on 3,500 m2 (38,000 sq ft).

Luftfahrtmuseum Hannover-Laatzen
Aviation Museum Hannover-Laatzen
A MiG-21 displayed outside the museum
LocationHanover-Laatzen, Germany
TypeAviation Museum
Websitewww.luftfahrtmuseum-hannover.de
Beginning of Aviation: Lilienthal´s Glider
An-2 from above

Among the vast array of exhibits one can find an original Jumo 004A, one of the first jet engines in history, as well as a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, a Messerschmitt Bf 109 and a Supermarine Spitfire. Aircraft from the postwar era include a MiG-15, an F-104 and an An-2.

History

The entrepreneur Günter Leonhardt was already interested in gliding as a teenager and volunteered for the Luftwaffe. After the Second World War, Leonhardt created the Nelke shipping company, together with the businessman Karl Nelke. His passion was aviation, and he built a large private collection. For this he rescued several Ju-52 from a Norwegian lake in the Arctic Circle, which had sunk there in 1940. In 1992, he partially transferred his collection to the Aviation Museum Laatzen-Hannover, located on the premises of the company he by then owned. The company Nelke was sold in 1994.

On 11 April 2013, the Aviation Museum Laatzen-Hannover, the Aeronauticum in Nordholz, the Helicopter Museum Bückeburg and the Ju-52 Museum in Wunstorf have joined together to form the "Association of Aviation Museums of Lower Saxony" ("Arbeitsgemeinschaft Niedersächsischer Luftfahrtmuseen").

Exhibits

Exhibits include civilian and military aircraft. In addition to the aircraft collection are numerous items of everyday use, such as vehicles and clothing. Further emphasis is set on: the early days of aviation, daring pilots, the salvage of the Ju 52 in the Arctic Circle, the history of gliding and women in aviation. Exhibits are mostly arranged in chronological order, starting with the birth of aviation and ending with modern civil aviation.

Airplanes

Helicopters
8,8-cm-FlaK 36 Anti-Aircraft Gun

Other
  • Equipment for pilots
  • Junkers Ju 52/3m fuselage
  • Flugmotoren und Triebwerke
  • WWII Anti-Aircraft Gun
  • Instrument Panels and Equipment
  • Various aircraft models

See also

References
  1. "Die Focke-Wulf Fw 190" (in German). Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  2. "Die Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2" (in German). Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  3. "Die Spitfire Mk XIV" (in German). Retrieved 12 March 2019.
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