Volandia

Volandia
Volandia – Parco e museo del volo
Location within Italy
Established 2010
Location Via per Tornavento, 15,
Case Nuove 21019 Somma Lombardo (VA),
Italy
Coordinates 45°37′48″N 8°42′24″E / 45.630080°N 8.706800°E / 45.630080; 8.706800
Type Aviation museum
Collection size 45 aircraft, plus cars, motorbikes, scale models and historically significant artifacts
Nearest car park On site (no charge)
Website Official website

Volandia (full name: Volandia – Parco e museo del volo, Italian for Park and Museum of Flight) is an Italian aviation museum, located near the Malpensa Airport in the comune of Somma Lombardo, in the Province of Varese. Housed in the former industrial premises of the Caproni company at Vizzola Ticino, the museum was established in 2010, after a 10-year preparation phase.[1]

The museum covers an area of ca. 60,000 m² (645,000 sq ft)[2] of which 20,000 m² (215,000 sq ft) are indoors.[3] Its collection is composed of approximately 45 aircraft, including the Caproni Ca.1 (an important milestone of Italian aviation) and other significant Caproni aircraft from the Ca.18 to the C-22J, a Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 (an Italian World War II torpedo bomber), examples of the Aermacchi MB-326, 339 and 346 trainers, Agusta helicopters and other flying machines, as well as cars, motorbikes, scale models and historically significant artifacts.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ Orlando Mastrillo (8 May 2010). "Volandia "decolla", il museo del volo è realtà" [Volandia "Takes off", the aviation museum becomes reality]. Varese News (in Italian). Retrieved 21 November 2016. (in Italian)
  2. ↑ "Volandia". www.volandia.it. Archived from the original on 14 March 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2016. (in Italian)
  3. ↑ "Volandia, il Parco e Museo del Volo di Malpensa". www.giorgiociarini.com. Retrieved 7 January 2015. (in Italian)
  4. ↑ "Aircraft". volandia.it. Retrieved 21 November 2016.


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