About
The Lithuanian Aviation Museum is located in Kaunas, Lithuania. The museum was officially opened in 1983. The permanent collection of the museum contains more than 18 000 displays of different fields of technology. The major part of the collection is dedicated to the history of aviation in Lithuania. It includes about 40 flying machines, models of airplanes, flyers, gliders and helicopters of various times, and designed during the Interwar period of Lithuania first combat aircraft the ANBO I by General Antanas Gustaitis. The museum is located at the airfield where the aviators Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas were expected to land following their attempt at a non-stop trans-atlantic flight in 1933, and holds a flyable replica of their plane.
