The Historical Air Force Museum contains approximately 60 aircraft, as well as a substantial collection of engines and relics, which are able to illustrate the history of flight in Italy and its protagonists.
The exhibition starts from the Troster pavilion where models of aircraft and relics regarding the period between the flights of the pioneers and the First World War are exhibited.
Here, the oldest piece of the museum can be seen: the balloon, made by Colonel Garnerin for Napoleon’s coronation as Emperor of France on December 16th 1804 in Paris, and, from there, blown by winds firstly to the Via Cassia near the so-called Tomb of Nero and subsequently onto the banks of Lake Bracciano.
In the same room there is also a section devoted to racing hydroplanes.
The Velo pavilion follows, which houses models and various kinds of manufactured articles (uniforms, documents, photographs) related to the great individual crossings and those of the masses as well as the polar flights that were undertaken in the 1920s, with a special section devoted to General Umberto Nobile and the aeroplanes used in the Second World War.
The next stop is the Badoni pavilion in which the large aircraft used by the Air Force between the thirties and the seventies are exhibited.
The visit ends in the Skema pavilion, where models of the last decade can be observed.

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