Kurgan Aviation Museum

About museum

Kurgan Aviation Museum was founded in 1985 and is the departmental museum of the Kurgan Combined Aviation Unit of Civil Aviation of the USSR. The museum houses a permanent exhibition "History of Civil Aviation of the Trans-Urals", which covers the period from 1912 to 2000. It includes 220 museum items such as documents, photographs, awards, uniforms, an air traffic controller trainer and an An-2 flight simulator, an M-11 aircraft engine, scale models of the Po-2 and An-2, as well as examples of ground radio-technical equipment. The museum also has a collection of 15 aircraft, including MiG-17 and MiG-21PF fighters, the Su-25 ground-attack aircraft, the multipurpose An-2, the passenger An-24B and others. The museum also presents two exhibitions: "Sports Aviation of the Trans-Urals" and "Flight Uniforms and Equipment of Air Force Crews, 1930s–2000s."