National Aerospace Museum, Aerospace museum in Cerrillos, Chile.
The National Aerospace Museum is a museum in Cerrillos, Chile, that displays aircraft and aviation equipment inside a large hangar-style building. The collection ranges from early propeller planes to military jets, all arranged so that visitors can walk around them.
The museum was founded by the Chilean Air Force in 1944, making it one of the oldest aerospace museums in South America. It moved to the Los Cerrillos Airport site in 1992, which gave it the space needed to display larger aircraft.
The museum sits on the grounds of the former Los Cerrillos Airport, and the old runways are still visible around the buildings. Visitors can walk right up to real aircraft, which gives the place a hands-on feeling that is hard to find elsewhere.
The museum is located on the grounds of the former Los Cerrillos Airport, on the western edge of Santiago. The indoor exhibition space is flat and open, so the full collection is easy to walk through without any particular difficulty.
Among the aircraft on display are planes that were actually built in Chile, at a time when the country was developing its own aviation industry. These locally made machines are not found in any other museum in the world.
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