Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Aviation and space museum at Rockcliffe Airport, Ottawa, Canada
The permanent collection spans 130 aircraft and aerospace artifacts, including engines, propellers, and technical instruments displayed in a hangar building.
The museum opened in 1964 to preserve Canadian aviation heritage, starting with a collection of military aircraft from the Second World War period.
The exhibitions chronicle Canadian advancements in flight technology, from early bush planes to modern space exploration missions and the Canadarm development.
The museum offers helicopter tours, vintage biplane flights, and year-round Cessna rides departing from the adjacent Rockcliffe Airport runway.
Visitors can examine the largest remaining section of the Avro Arrow interceptor and the original Canadarm used on the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Location: Ottawa
Inception: 1964
Official opening: 1964
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible
Operator: Ingenium
Address: 11 Aviation Pkwy, Ottawa, ON K1K 2X5
Opening Hours: Thursday-Monday 09:00-17:00
Phone: +18664424416
Website: https://ingeniumcanada.org/fr/aviation
GPS coordinates: 45.45770,-75.64290
Latest update: May 27, 2025 11:40
Aerospace museums hold airplanes that have marked the history of flight, often displayed in large hangars or outside. You can see military aircraft used during world conflicts, commercial planes that carried the first passengers, as well as experimental prototypes and objects from the early days of flying. These collections tell the story of how flying has grown, from early attempts to space rockets. Important places include the national museum of the United States Air Force in Ohio, which shows hundreds of aircraft sorted by period, and the Royal Air Force Museum in London, which shares British aviation history. In Europe, the Museo del Aire in Madrid displays over 150 Spanish military planes, and the Caproni Museum in Trentino gathers dozens of Italian aircraft along with many technical documents. In Russia, the Central Museum of the Air Forces near Moscow keeps Soviet-era airplanes and engines. These museums help visitors understand how flying developed in each country and how it changed travel and moving around.
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