Lithuanian Aviation Museum

The museum

Lithuania’s national aviation museum stands on the historic S. Darius and S. Girėnas airfield in Kaunas, connecting national sporting flight, wartime air services and the celebrated transatlantic flight of Lituanica. Its outdoor exhibition and indoor galleries combine complete aircraft with local glider craftsmanship and research archives.

Lithuania’s national aviation museum stands on the historic S. Darius and S. Girėnas airfield in Kaunas, connecting national sporting flight, wartime air services and the celebrated transatlantic flight of Lituanica. Its outdoor exhibition and indoor galleries combine complete aircraft with local glider craftsmanship and research archives.

The aircraft collection concentrates on lithuanian sporting and training aviation, domestically designed gliders and the Darius and Girėnas transatlantic flight. The museum reports over fifty flying machines in its holdings but does not claim all are on display. Its full-scale Lituanica is explicitly a flyable replica built for a film, while the Antonov An-2 was used during the 1989 Baltic Way.

The aircraft entries below are selected records from the institution’s own collection pages, not a claim to reproduce its entire inventory. A type shown in a museum catalog is not automatically available for inspection: restoration, loan, operational, and reserve storage arrangements can change. Where the catalog does not establish current public display, these records retain an unknown display status.

At Kaunas, the museum pairs early national aviation with later Soviet and Lithuanian service aircraft and a particularly rich tradition of sporting gliders. The Oškinis designs illustrate the domestic training and gliding movement, while LAK sailplanes document Lithuanian sport aviation. The Lituanica reproduction connects visitors to the interwar transatlantic flight of Darius and Girėnas. On the military side, an L-29, L-39, MiG-21 and Iskra trainer sit in the broader collection with helicopters, An-2 utility aircraft and regional transport machines. The named aircraft list is a researched selection, not the same figure as the museum’s published full holdings.