Aircraft collection

– – – HL002X HLEBD – 3 J-TIAD/J 54656/656 /7 K-200 10-594 – N4082C 01

EAV-2 KAI T-50B Golden Eagle (mock-up) KIR OPPAV Korea Aerospace KC-100 Naraon Korea Aerospace Research Institute Bandiho Korea Aerospace Research InstituteTR-60 Korea Aerospace Research InstituteTR-100 Nieuport 17 (replica)/Geumgangho North American F-86F Sabre North American T-6 Texan North American TF-51D Mustang Northrop KF-5E Tiger Standard J1 (replica) Stinson 108-3 Flying Station Wagon Vessel KLA-100

The brand new National Aviation Museum of Korea 국립항공박물관, located next to Gimpo Airport, one of the two airports serving Seoul, begins its tour with a review of the history of aviation, exhibiting models ranging from Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machines to the first motor-operated plane successfully tested by the Wright brothers in 1903.

After reviewing the role that aviation played in the two world wars and the revolutionary invention of the jet engine, the history of South Korean aviation is examined.

At this point, a restored Standard J1, a two-seat basic trainer two-bay biplane produced in the United States in 1916 and used by the first Korean pilots in the independence struggle against Japan, which colonized the peninsula from 1910 to 1945, occupies a place of honor.

The second floor of the National Aviation Museum of Korea 국립항공박물관 is dedicated to showing the operation of an airport, using as an example that of Incheon, Seoul’s main international airport, which has an exhaustive protocol for detecting coronavirus in passengers coming from overseas.

Photo National Aviation Museum of Korea