Must-sees at the museum
1 – Clock: Charles and Robert’s balloon, knows as “Charlières”
Grande Galerie / Pioneers Hall
An example of “balloon mania” at the end of the 18th century
2 – Dupuy-de-Lôme airship basket
Grande Galerie / Pioneers Hall
A 19th century arm-powered airship basket
3 – Santos-Dumont Demoiselle
Grande Galerie / Pioneers Hall
One of the first mass-produced airplanes
4 – Oil on canvas: Voisin brothers’ workshop in Billancourt
Grande Galerie / Pioneers Hall
A painting depicting aviation’s Belle Époque
5 – Nieuport Type XI bébé
Grande Galerie / Great War Hall
An aircraft emblematic of the World War I fighters
6 – Bréguet XIX TF Super Bidon Point d’Interrogation
Interwar Hall
The first aircraft to fly east-west from Paris to New Yorkt
7 – Pescara helicopter
Helicopter Hall
The beginnings of the helicopter
8 – Yakovlev Yak-3
Normandie-Niemen Hall
The last existing original aircraft of the Normandie-Niemen Fighter Group
9 – Douglas C-47 Skytrain
World War II Hall
One of the most produced aircraft in history
10 – Dassault Mystère IV A-01
Prototype Hall
The first French fighter to break the sound barrier
11 – Dassault Mirage 2000-01
Cocarde Hall, French military aviation
The prototype of one of the current French Air and Space Force aircraft
12 – Concorde F-WTSS et Concorde F-BTSD
Concorde Hall
The 001 prototype of the legendary supersonic airliner and the record-breaking Concorde Sierra Delta
13 – Soyouz T-6 capsule
Space Hall
A genuine spaceship and one of the few objects to return from space
14 – Boeing 747-128
Tarmac
The Jumbo Jet, the aircraft that revolutionised air transport
