Avro 631 Cadet, a trainer of the late 1920's, a contestant to the king of trainers of that time, the De Havilland Tiger Moth. Only 22 Avro 631 Cadet were made in total, and only 2 survived to this day, and this is one of them. It is totally original and unrestored.
This is one of its old logos from 1954. They changed one more time before the current designThe museum has completed two restoration projects of the F-84G Thunderjet and Dakota the DC-3 Dakota, and they were added to the colelction.
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Bartolomeu de Gusmao, portuguese priest and naturalist, demonstarated the hot air balloon to King D. John V on August 9, 1709. It was the first aproach of new transport using the air space. A replica of a Farman F-40, a trainer and bomber of the WWI, it was the first airplane to ever land at night. The Portuguese Army had a dozen and camed one of them "Casta Suzana" (actress in 1922) It was also a private plane owned by Comander Sacadura Cabral, who crossed the South-Atlantic in a sea-plane for the first time in 1922.
The 14 Bis
was the first aircraft heavier than air fly bytheir own means designed by a Brasilian engineer Santos Dumont
The aircraft was built in Japanese silk, bamboo and aluminum, in a structure of biplane type canard. The box structure was adopted for the construction and used a lighter engine. On October 23, 1906, 14 Bis flew almost 70 meters to an altitude of 3 meters in front of more than 1000 spectators and it made the first officially witnessed unaided takeoff and flight by a heavier-than-air aircraft. Some say that this museum has one of the best collections of important airplanes in the world
Transportes Aéreos Portugueses known as TAP was founded in 1945."Museu do Ar" - Aviation Museum
- in Sintra -
The Aero Clube de Portugal was started in 1909 and created a museum in 1968 in a former-Army’s MilitaryAviation hangar. It was on July 1, 1971 when the museum was opened to the
public in Alverca. As the collection expanded, they made a new site at Sintra in December 2009 celebrating the100th of Aviation in Portugal.