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Flyhistorisk Museum Sola

At Stavanger Airport, the aircraft halls at Sola trace Norwegian civilian and military flying with surviving wartime aircraft, Cold War combat jets, and civilian transport and gliding exhibits. The airport location also connects visitors to the broader history of coastal aviation. Aircraft and collections: Norwegian wartime aviation, Cold War fighters, flying boats, civil and military helicopters. The institution’s exhibit catalog lists indoor and outdoor airframes, including long-term restorations. Opening dates are seasonal and aircraft grouped below are a selected documented inventory, not a claim that every airframe is accessible simultaneously. Listed aircraft are selected source-attributed records, not a promise that every item is accessible on the date of a visit. Museum ownership, active flying, restoration, replicas, and partial airframes are distinguished where evidence permits. Confirm visitor arrangements directly with the institution.

Aviation Museum38 documented aircraft/exhibitsSeasonal
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The museum

At Stavanger Airport, the aircraft halls at Sola trace Norwegian civilian and military flying with surviving wartime aircraft, Cold War combat jets, and civilian transport and gliding exhibits. The airport location also connects visitors to the broader history of coastal aviation.

At Stavanger Airport, the aircraft halls at Sola trace Norwegian civilian and military flying with surviving wartime aircraft, Cold War combat jets, and civilian transport and gliding exhibits. The airport location also connects visitors to the broader history of coastal aviation.

Aircraft and collections: Norwegian wartime aviation, Cold War fighters, flying boats, civil and military helicopters. The institution’s exhibit catalog lists indoor and outdoor airframes, including long-term restorations. Opening dates are seasonal and aircraft grouped below are a selected documented inventory, not a claim that every airframe is accessible simultaneously.

Listed aircraft are selected source-attributed records, not a promise that every item is accessible on the date of a visit. Museum ownership, active flying, restoration, replicas, and partial airframes are distinguished where evidence permits. Confirm visitor arrangements directly with the institution.

What defines the collection

Norwegian wartime aviation, Cold War fighters, flying boats, civil and military helicopters

Collection focus: Civil aviation · Helicopters · Indoor galleries · Outdoor collection
Civil aviationHelicoptersIndoor galleriesOutdoor collection

What to expect

The institution’s exhibit catalog lists indoor and outdoor airframes, including long-term restorations. Opening dates are seasonal and aircraft grouped below are a selected documented inventory, not a claim that every airframe is accessible simultaneously.

What the museum holds

38 documented aircraft and exhibit records

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.

38Documented records
37Recorded on display
5Air Archive links
2Research sources
Collection highlights38 cataloged entries
Open full museum-listed inventory (38 entries)
AircraftStatusIdentity
Aero Commander 680FLOn Display—
Aerodyne Vector 610On Display—
Arado Ar 196A-2On Display—
Arado Ar 96B-1On Display—
Aérospatiale AS332L Super PumaOn Display—
Bell 47GOn Display—
Bell UH-1B IroquoisOn Display—
Caproni Ca.310 LibeccioOn Display—
Consolidated PBY-5A CatalinaOn Display—
Convair CV-440 MetropolitanOn Display—
de Havilland DH.114 HeronOn Display—
de Havilland DH.82 Tiger MothOn Display—
de Havilland Vampire
de Havilland Vampire
On Display—
DFS Olympia MeiseOn Display—
DFS SG 38 SchulgleiterOn Display—
Douglas DC-6BOn Display—
EoN Baby Type 8On Display—
Fairchild PT-26 CornellOn Display—
Fieseler Fi 156C-2 StorchOn Display—
Fokker F27 FriendshipOn Display—
Grumman G-44 WidgeonOn Display—
Hol’s der Teufel gliderOn Display—
Lockheed CF-104 StarfighterOn Display—
Lockheed T-33 Shooting StarOn Display—
Messerschmitt Bf 109
Messerschmitt Bf 109G-1
On Display—
Noorduyn NorsemanOn Display—
North American F-86 Sabre
North American F-86F Sabre
On Display—
North American F-86 Sabre
North American F-86K Sabre
On Display—
Northrop F-5 Freedom FighterOn Display—
Piel CP301 EmeraudeOn Display—
Piper PA-38 TomahawkOn Display—
Republic F-84G ThunderjetOn Display—
Republic F-84 Thunderjet / Thunderstreak family
Republic RF-84F Thunderflash
On Display—
Saab 35 Draken
Saab 35 Draken
On Display—
Saab 91B SafirOn Display—
Scheibe BergfalkeOn Display—
Westland Sea King Mk 43BOn Display—
Heinkel He 115B flying boat restorationRestoration—
Museum collection records are source-backed; catalog inclusion does not by itself guarantee that an airframe is currently visible to visitors.

Aircraft histories connected to this museum

Sources

Open 2 sources