The museum
The Aviation Museum near Plovdiv is part of Bulgaria’s National Museum of Military History network. Its distinctive outdoor collection includes a surviving Arado Ar 196 seaplane and a broad sequence of Bulgarian-service fighters, trainers, and helicopters.
The Aviation Museum near Plovdiv is part of Bulgaria’s National Museum of Military History network. Its distinctive outdoor collection includes a surviving Arado Ar 196 seaplane and a broad sequence of Bulgarian-service fighters, trainers, and helicopters.
The collection places particular emphasis on bulgarian military aviation, interwar and Second World War airframes, Cold War MiG and Sukhoi aircraft, and rotary-wing aviation. An extensive outdoor aviation park is accompanied by indoor exhibitions. The museum provides a separate count of 56 aeroplanes and 16 helicopters in its collections; these are collection totals, not a claim that all are accessible on any given visit.
Aircraft listed below are selected documented collection or exhibit entries, not a complete museum inventory. Individual aircraft may be stored, loaned, undergoing restoration, or inaccessible during renovations. Where the evidence does not establish their current location on public display, display status is marked unknown. Verify visit arrangements and individual exhibit access directly with the institution before traveling.
What defines the collection
Bulgarian military aviation, interwar and Second World War airframes, Cold War MiG and Sukhoi aircraft, and rotary-wing aviation
What to expect
An extensive outdoor aviation park is accompanied by indoor exhibitions. The museum provides a separate count of 56 aeroplanes and 16 helicopters in its collections; these are collection totals, not a claim that all are accessible on any given visit.
What the museum holds
56 fixed-wing aircraft and 16 helicopters listed as museum collections
The inventory below separates what the museum or its sources say the institution holds from the smaller set of aircraft histories already connected to the Air Archive.
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15On Display
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17On Display
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19On Display
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21On Display
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23On Display
- Mil Mi-14On Display
- Mil Mi-24On Display
- Tupolev Tu-2On Display
- Yakovlev Yak-23On Display
- Ilyushin Il-28Unknown
- Antonov An-2On Display
- Antonov An-24On Display
- Arado Ar 196 A-3On Display
- Ilyushin Il-14On Display
Open full museum-listed inventory (31 entries)
| Aircraft | Status | Identity |
|---|---|---|
| Antonov An-2 | On Display | — |
| Antonov An-24 | On Display | — |
| Arado Ar 196 A-3 | On Display | — |
| Ilyushin Il-14 | On Display | — |
| Ilyushin Il-2 | On Display | — |
| Kamov Ka-26 | On Display | — |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI | On Display | — |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 | On Display | — |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 | On Display | — |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 | On Display | — |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 | On Display | — |
| Mil Mi-1 | On Display | — |
| Mil Mi-14 Mil Mi-14 | On Display | — |
| Mil Mi-2 | On Display | — |
| Mil Mi-24 Mil Mi-24 | On Display | — |
| Mil Mi-4 | On Display | — |
| Mil Mi-8 | On Display | — |
| Nikolay Popovski H11B1 | On Display | — |
| Sukhoi Su-22 | On Display | — |
| Tupolev Tu-2 Tupolev Tu-2 | On Display | — |
| Yakovlev Yak-23 Yakovlev Yak-23 | On Display | — |
| Yakovlev Yak-50 | On Display | — |
| Yakovlev Yak-52 | On Display | — |
| Yakovlev Yak-9P | On Display | — |
| Zlin Z-326 Acrobat | On Display | — |
| Zlin Z-37A | On Display | — |
| Antonov An-14 | Unknown | — |
| Douglas Li-2 | Unknown | — |
| Ilyushin Il-28 Ilyushin Il-28 | Unknown | — |
| Let L-200 Morava | Unknown | — |
| Yakovlev Yak-11 | Unknown | — |
Aircraft histories connected to this museum
These links connect museum holdings to aircraft histories already in the Trackpads Air Archive. They are not intended to imply that every museum aircraft has a dedicated archive profile yet.