Museo dell'aeronautica Gianni Caproni

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Museo dell'aeronautica Gianni Caproni
Trento-museo Gianni Caproni-hangar.jpg
Data
place Via Lidorno, 3, Trient Coordinates: 46 ° 1 ′ 15.2 ″  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 36.9 ″  EWorld icon
Art
opening 1992
management
Giuseppe Ferrandi
Website

The Museo dell'aeronautica Gianni Caproni (German Aviation Museum Gianni Caproni ) is dedicated to the Italian aeronautical engineer and entrepreneur Gianni Caproni . The museum has its exhibition hall at Trento Airport .

history

Gianni Caproni decided in the early years of his entrepreneurial activity to keep some of his most important aircraft models in his production facilities in Vizzola Ticino and in Milan 's Taliedo district for posterity. In 1927, at the instigation of his wife Timina Guasti, the Caproni Museum was the first aviation museum in Italy. In addition to the aircraft, documents, photos and other memorabilia were also included in the collection.

The museum set itself the goal of showing the pioneering days of aviation and its further development using historical machines. In 1934 the idea of ​​setting up a national aviation museum in Milan was born. However, this project was never implemented, so that for decades the Caproni Museum was the only museum in Italy that had set itself the goal of preserving and displaying old aircraft.

Exhibition hall at Trento Airport

At the end of the 1930s, the museum, housed in a former Caproni workshop in Taliedo, was opened to the general public. There were not only models from Caproni on display, but also from other manufacturers such as Ansaldo , Gabardini, Macchi and the Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft , a total of around 15 complete machines as well as aircraft fuselages, wings and other aircraft components.

During the Second World War , the most valuable museum pieces were outsourced. Nevertheless, the museum's holdings were seriously affected by war damage. In the post-war period, the museum's aircraft were temporarily stored in Venegono Superiore , while all documents were kept in Rome . In the 1960s, the museum was reopened, enriched with new aircraft in the Caproni works in Vizzola Ticino.

In 1988, after the company and the museum in Vizzola had been closed, the heirs of Gianni Caproni loaned the holdings to the Autonomous Province of Trento , provided that a suitable new exhibition space was made available and the museum named after Gianni, who came from Trentino Called Caproni. On October 3, 1992, the new museum opened at Trento airport in the southern Mattarello district.

The Italian Air Force and the Rovereto War Museum then loaned the museum further items, including a three-engine Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 that was last used in the Lebanese Air Force .

In 2012, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the museum, the Province acquired the Caproni Collection from the Caproni family.

The museum is part of the natural science collections of the Autonomous Province of Trento and has been under the direction of the Historical Museum of Trentino Foundation ( Italian: Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino ) since July 2019 , after it had previously been under the Museum of Science (MUSE) in Trento. It belongs to the museum association Rete Trentino Grande Guerra .

Exhibits

The following aircraft and engines are only a selection from the exhibition.

Until 1918

Ansaldo A.1 Balilla
The Ansaldo A.1 Balilla on display was built in 1918 and belonged to the pilot Natale Palli , who took part in the flight over Vienna with Gabriele D'Annunzio in August 1918 . It is one of a total of 166 machines of this type that were built in 1918 and one of two surviving worldwide. It still has the original silk wing covering in the camouflage painting from 1918.
Caproni approx. 6th
Ansaldo SVA 5
The model on display is one of six machines of this type that dropped leaflets over Vienna in August 1918. It is the aircraft flown by Gino Allegri .
Caproni – Bristol
Middle decker designed by Henri Coanda in 1912 . The aircraft on display in the museum dates from 1912 and is of English origin. In the same year, Caproni secured the reproduction license for Italy . It is the oldest surviving machine of this type. It was restored in the late 1980s.
Caproni approx. 6th
The caproni approx. 6 is the sixth aircraft built by Gianni Caproni. It dates from 1911, making it the oldest aircraft on display in the museum. The machine is shown without covering to emphasize the wooden construction of the wings and fuselage.
Caproni approx. 9
Caproni approx. 9
Shoulder decker built by Caproni in 1911 . Belongs to the series of monoplanes built by Caproni between 1911 and 1913 , ca. 8 to approx. 16, based on the Blériot XI developed by Louis Blériot . The machine on display is the only monoplane built and preserved by Caproni.
Fokker D.VIII
The fuselage of the Fokker D.VIII is on display . It is the only original hull that has been preserved in the world. It comes from the Montecelio testing site near Guidonia Montecelio . The originally complete machine was delivered in October 1918 and was no longer used in the First World War. It was given to Italy as a reparation payment after the war and extensively tested under Italian emblems.

1919 to 1945

Breda Ba.19
Avia FL.3
Two-seat sports and training aircraft produced by Avia in 1938 . Was one of the most affordable aircraft models on the market in the late 1930s. The machine on display is a post-war model produced in 1947.
Breda Ba.19
First commissioned biplane in 1930 and one of the most famous aerobatic aircraft of the 1930s. Because of its flight characteristics it was also used as a training aircraft for aspiring fighter pilots . The museum's machine is the only one of this model preserved in the world.
Bucker Bü 131 Jungmann
The machine on display is a Swiss license replica completed in April 1939. The machine was used as a training aircraft in the Swiss Air Force and sold to a flight school in Italy in 1963 . It came into the possession of the museum in 1976 and was restored in the 1980s. The original paintwork was restored.
Caproni about 100 idro
Caproni about 100 idro
One of the five machines of this type preserved worldwide. Originally not built as a seaplane , the machine exhibited in the museum was converted into the Idro version by the Aero Club in Como in 1960. It was restored in the 1990s.
Caproni ca.163
Biplane prototype from 1938, should replace the approx. 100. The model never went into series production, but was the basis for the successor model Caproni Ca.164 , of which, however, no machines have survived. The aircraft was restored in 1989 and is still airworthy.
Macchi M.20
Gabardini G.51bis
Two-seat biplane designed in 1925. The model, built by the company of aeronautical engineer Giuseppe Gabardini, served as a training aircraft until the 1930s. A total of 10 pieces of this model were registered. The model on display is the penultimate of the series and was built in December 1928 and used until 1935. It was restored in the 1980s and is the only aircraft produced by Gabardini that is on public display.
Macchi M.20
Two -seat biplane manufactured by Macchi after the First World War , which was used as a sports and training aircraft. The model on display is the oldest machine preserved in Italy in the original Macchi design and was built in the mid-1920s. She changed hands several times and experienced some changes in the process. In the 1950s, the Caproni family was able to partially replace parts that were no longer true to the original with originals. The model on display was restored at the end of the 1980s, and the missing parts were reconstructed according to the original plans.
Saiman 202M
Single-seat low-wing aircraft built in the 1930s and mass-produced as a liaison aircraft until 1943 . From 1944 also used by the German Air Force . The model in the museum was built by SACA in Brindisi in 1943 . After the war it was used for civil purposes until 1962. The restored machine in the museum shows the painting of the Pistoia flight school from the 1930s and 1940s.
Savoia-Marchetti SM.79
Savoia-Marchetti SM.79
Most famous Italian aircraft from World War II. The machine, designed for civilian purposes in 1934, was mainly used as a torpedo bomber during the war. The machine on display is one of two surviving machines of this type worldwide. It was manufactured in the Officine Reggiane in 1942 and was assigned to the 280th torpedo bomber squadron. It was sold to Lebanon in 1949 together with three other machines of this model and remained in service there until 1959. In 1993 the machine was given back to Italy as a gift. The loan from the Italian Air Force was restored in the early 1990s.

Since 1945

Agusta Bell AB-47G3B1
Introduced in 1954 as the first commercial helicopter. The machine on display was donated to the museum in 1998.
Caproni approx. 193
Caproni ca.193
Two-seater model designed as an air taxi by Caproni Taliedo in 1945, whose maiden flight took place in 1949. The model proposed by the Italian Air Force for military purposes did not go into series production. The only completed prototype was acquired by the Italian Air Force in 1950 and sold to a civilian user after two years. The last user was the Aero Club Trient through which the machine came into the possession of the museum. It was restored in the early 1990s.
Caproni Trento F.5
Jet-powered aircraft produced in the Caproni works in Trento in the post-war period. The first flight took place in 1952. Conversions would have been necessary for series production, which could not be implemented due to a lack of funds, so that the only prototype produced was retained despite the interest of the Italian Air Force, which used the machine as a test aircraft. It was handed over to the museum in 1990 and then restored.
Caproni Vizzola C-22J
The model designed in 1978 for the US Air Force as a low-cost jet-propelled trainer aircraft. It was the last aircraft to have the name Caproni in the model name. The first flight took place in 1980 without going into series production. The machine on display is one of the completed prototypes.
Lockheed F-104G starfighter
The machine installed in front of the museum is a Fiat Aeritalia license. It was in service with the Italian Air Force until the 1980s and was retired in 1990. During assembly at the current location, all parts that could be dismantled were removed and the total weight was reduced to around 2 tons so that the machine could even be set up in this position.
Macchi MB.308
First model made by Macchi after the end of World War II. It was based on the PM.1 model, which was designed as a training aircraft at the end of the 1930s. The first flight of the mass-produced aircraft took place in 1947. The machine owned by the museum was built in 1950 and handed over to the Museum Caproni in Vizzola Ticino in 1972. It was restored in the late 1980s.
Piaggio P.XI

Piston engines

  • Colombo p.53
  • Fiat A.50
  • Fiat A.74
  • Isotta Fraschini V.4
  • Piaggio P.XI to RC 40 D

See also

Web links

Commons : Museo dell'aeronautica Gianni Caproni  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Museum (Italian) accessed on February 28, 2018.
  2. ^ Collection Museum Caproni - Ansaldo A.1 Balilla , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  3. ↑ Museum Caproni Collection - Ansaldo SVA 5 , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  4. ^ Collection Museum Caproni - Caproni – Bristol , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  5. ↑ Collection Museum Caproni - Caproni Approx. 6 , accessed March 14, 2018.
  6. ↑ Collection Museum Caproni - Caproni Approx. 9 (Italian). Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  7. ^ Collection Museum Caproni - Fokker D.VIII , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  8. ^ Collection Museum Caproni - Avia FL.3 , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  9. ^ Collection Museum Caproni - Breda Ba.19 , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  10. ^ Collection Museum Caproni - Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  11. ↑ Collection Museum Caproni - Caproni Ca 100 Idro , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  12. ^ Collection Museum Caproni - Caproni Ca.163 , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  13. ^ Collection Museum Caproni - Gabardini G.51bis , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  14. ^ Collection Museum Caproni - Macchi M.20 , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  15. ↑ collection Museum Caproni -Saiman 202M , accessed on 14 March 2018th
  16. ^ Collection Museum Caproni - Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  17. ↑ Museum Caproni Collection (Web.Archive) - Agusta Bell AB-47G3B1 , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  18. ↑ Collection Museum Caproni - Caproni Ca.193 , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  19. ^ Collection Museum Caproni - Caproni Trento F.5 , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  20. ↑ Collection Museum Caproni - Caproni Vizzola C-22J , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  21. ^ Museum Caproni Collection - Lockheed F-104G Starfighter , accessed on March 14, 2018.
  22. ↑ Collection Museum Caproni - Macchi MB.308 , accessed on March 14, 2018.