Internationales Luftfahrt-Museum, Aviation museum in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.
The Internationales Luftfahrt-Museum is a collection of about 50 real aircraft and around 350 scale models displayed across a large indoor and outdoor space. The exhibits include various aircraft types ranging from small planes to fighter jets spanning several decades of aviation.
Manfred Pflumm founded the museum in 1988 with the goal of preserving and sharing the history of aircraft technology. Since then, the collection has grown steadily and documents how aircraft evolved across multiple generations.
The collection displays aircraft from different countries and eras, reflecting how aviation knowledge spread across borders over the decades. Walking through, you see German designs alongside foreign models that show how engineers drew inspiration from one another.
The visit is straightforward to plan, as the museum grounds are generally walkable, though some areas have limited wheelchair accessibility. You should plan for a full morning or afternoon if you want to see most of the exhibits without rushing.
The museum maintains a remarkable collection of ejection seats that showcase how pilot safety evolved across different aircraft and time periods. These specialized exhibits reveal the engineering solutions developed to protect pilots during emergency situations.
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