I’m intending to visit the Brussels Air Museum sometime this year, but as we all know, it’s due to close soon for refurbishment (for 8 years?).
Does anybody know when it is due to close?
The museum website doesn’t seem to even mention the closure.
Ideally, I’m planning to visit in June
Many thanks
Willow
By: avion ancien - 3rd April 2008 at 21:40
Interesting. Recently I came across an old note – which appears to be part of another, now disappeared, record – headed “aircraft unidentified at the Musée de l’Armée Bruxelles 30/8/?”. I think that the date would have been in the late 1970s. The note continues:
2 x Dagling type primary gliders
2 x modern type gliders (probably Grunau Babies)
1 x modern sailplane
Fuselage of a Voisin biplane
2 x early monoplane fuselages
2 x Auster fuselages plus one part stripped Auster fuselage
5 x Stampe SV-4 fuselages
Airship gondola
Rigid hang glider
Can anyone make sense of this note and/or identify the “unidentified aircraft” that I appear to have noted at the museum in the late 1970s?
By: low'n'slow - 3rd April 2008 at 16:13
There’s nothing on their official website www.airmuseum.be, which hasn’t been updated since 2007.
The ‘friends’ website, www.bamf.be, shows a lot of activities still going ahead this year so far!
Must get across their too, before the closure, both to take a look at their BE-2 and the latest progress on Tipsy Trainer G-AFJR.
By: RPSmith - 3rd April 2008 at 15:14
sorry can’t help you with info you seek, but closed for 8 years? – Cripes I’ll probably be pushing up daises by the time it reopens 🙁
Glad I went to visit a couple of years ago.
Roger Smith
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April 3, 2008 at 12:08 pm