Visit to the first airplane museum in the world

Today I am going with my friends to visit the museum of airplanes, it is located in Belgrade in the municipality of Surcin. When we arrived at that destination, we could not even imagine what we would see and learn.

This museum is from 1957, until then there was no museum of this type anywhere in the world (if planes were exhibited), so this museum was the first in the world to be built in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia.

The then government in Yugoslavia decided to establish a group of people who would find and study all the aircraft in the former Yugoslavia from 1911 until today. Special attention is paid to the earliest periods in the history of national aviation, the pioneer era of aviation, as well as the Balkans and the First World War.

So this collection consisted of aircraft that were made in 1911 until today, so this collection has over 200 aircraft, of which visitors can see 50 aircraft in the building and a dozen on the plateau around the building. Some of the exhibits are in the museum depot and are awaiting restoration. Among them, the most important place is certainly occupied by the Italian-made Fiat G-50 fighter, which is the only preserved specimen in the world.

There is one exception in the museum, and that is the "Sarić 1" aircraft made by the Serb Ivan Sarić, and he read everything by hand without any machines and with which he flew in 1910 in Subotica.

"Storm 11" is of historical significance, it is the first armed plane used in the Serbian army. The first airplane produced in Serbia, "Fizir FN", was exhibited in the first airplane factory in Serbia, the factory was called "Ikarus".

Among the planes of its own development and production, the "G-2 Galeb" plane takes the honorable place, the first domestic jet plane that was serially produced and used in the former Yugoslavia, in addition to our aviation, and in several airports of friendly dog ​​countries. This plane also received an award in a saloon in France called Le Bourget in Paris, because it was the best plane in that class made in the world at that time.

Among the aircraft of manual production or industrial production are the planes from the Second World War, Hawker Hurricane, Thunderbolt, Spitfire, Jak-3, Messerschmitt Me 109 G-2, Il-2 Sturmovik, and others. After the NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia in 1999, the Aviation Museum collected a significant number of exhibits related to this event. The most significant among these exhibits are parts of the so-called American. "invisible bomber" F-117 Night Falcon and American fighter bomber F-16 fighting falcon that were shot down by the VJ air defense.

After a few hours of touring this interesting museum with friends, I decided to go and eat something, after that we just returned home full of impressions and happy that we learned something new today.