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Established | 5 November 2017 |
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Location | Sinamangal, Kathmandu, Nepal |
Coordinates | 27°41′38″N 85°21′13″E / 27.694002649010965°N 85.35355971410345°E |
Type | Aviation museum |
Website | www.aviationmuseumnepal.com |
Aircraft Museum Kathmandu is an aviation museum located in Sinamangal, Kathmandu, Nepal. [1] The museum is inside an Airbus A330-300 of Turkish Airlines that only flew for about eight months before suffering a runway excursion at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu in March 2015. [2] It was established under a joint initiative by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal [3] and pilot Bed Upreti and his trust. This museum was officially opened to public on 28 November, 2017. [4] The museum's exhibits include the aircraft's original cockpit setting, model and miniature aircraft and items documenting the history of Nepalese aviation. [5] The museum is the second of its kind in Nepal, after Bed Upreti had already set up a similar, yet smaller aviation museum, the Aircraft Museum Dhangadhi in Dhangadhi in Western Nepal. The museum cost around NPRs 70 million. [6]