The museum
Chile’s national aviation and space museum is an official state institution documenting military, commercial, private, and sporting aviation through aircraft, archives, and historical collections.
Museo Nacional Aeronáutico y del Espacio in Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile gives visitors a substantial physical collection centered on chilean military and civil aviation, pioneering flight, commercial aviation, training aircraft, national aerospace history, and technology. The museum is especially relevant to visitors interested in civil aviation, military aviation, Second World War aviation, Cold War aviation, and modern aviation, and its displays place surviving machines alongside the broader technical, operational, and preservation story of flight.
This page is designed as more than a location entry. It connects the museum's wider collection to individually verified surviving-aircraft records in the Air Archive, while also giving enough context to understand the institution before planning a visit. The aircraft shown here are a documented subset rather than a claim to reproduce the museum's complete inventory, so additional airframes can be added as their current location and identity are verified.
The institution's numbered Galería de Aeronaves names 47 aircraft, rotorcraft, sailplanes, hang gliders and flying displays. That official inventory makes it possible to explore Chilean aviation beyond the most familiar military jets, from the Avro 504 and Gipsy Moth to the ENAER Pillán series, Kingfisher and P-47. Historical re-creations such as the Blériot XI are distinguished from surviving original aircraft.
What defines the collection
Chilean military and civil aviation, pioneering flight, commercial aviation, training aircraft, national aerospace history, and technology.
What to expect
The visitor experience combines indoor galleries with outdoor aircraft displays. Use the museum’s official visitor-information page for current access arrangements, tours, special events, closures, and any changes affecting what can be seen on the day of a visit.
What the museum holds
More than 100 aircraft on display from a national collection of over 130 airframes
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.
- Consolidated PBY CatalinaUnknown
- de Havilland VampireUnknown
- Douglas A-26 InvaderUnknown
- Republic P-47 ThunderboltUnknown
- Aeronca L-3BUnknown
- Avro 504KUnknown
- Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama helicopterUnknown
- Bell 47D-1 helicopterUnknown
- Blériot XI (replica)Unknown
- Bristol M.1C (replica)Unknown
- Bücker Bü 131 JungmannUnknown
- Cessna 195Unknown
- Culver CadetUnknown
- De Havilland DH.60G Gipsy MothUnknown
Open full museum-listed inventory (47 entries)
| Aircraft | Status | Identity |
|---|---|---|
| Aeronca L-3B | Unknown | — |
| Avro 504K | Unknown | — |
| Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama helicopter | Unknown | — |
| Bell 47D-1 helicopter | Unknown | — |
| Blériot XI (replica) | Unknown | — |
| Bristol M.1C (replica) | Unknown | — |
| Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann | Unknown | — |
| Cessna 195 | Unknown | — |
| Consolidated PBY Catalina Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina | Unknown | — |
| Culver Cadet | Unknown | — |
| De Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth | Unknown | — |
| De Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth | Unknown | — |
| de Havilland Vampire De Havilland Vampire | Unknown | — |
| Douglas A-26 Invader Douglas B-26 Invader | Unknown | — |
| Druine Turbulent | Unknown | — |
| ENAER T-35 Pillán Monoplaza | Unknown | — |
| ENAER T-35 Pillán YBT | Unknown | — |
| ENAER T-35DT Turbo Pillán | Unknown | — |
| ERCO Ercoupe | Unknown | — |
| Fairchild PT-19 | Unknown | — |
| Fokker Dr.I display aircraft (replica) | Unknown | — |
| Globe GC-1B Swift | Unknown | — |
| Grunau 9 glider | Unknown | — |
| LAN-18 | Unknown | — |
| Let L-13 Blaník sailplane | Unknown | — |
| Let L-23 Super Blaník sailplane | Unknown | — |
| MBB Bo 105 helicopter (Carabineros) | Unknown | — |
| Miles M.2 Hawk Major Saturno | Unknown | — |
| Minimoa glider | Unknown | — |
| Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Yellow Peril | Unknown | — |
| North American T-6 Texan | Unknown | — |
| Piper PA-18 | Unknown | — |
| Piper PA-28 Dakota | Unknown | — |
| Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk | Unknown | — |
| Pitts S-2S | Unknown | — |
| Pterodactyl Ascender II | Unknown | — |
| Quiltro I hang glider | Unknown | — |
| Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Republic P-47 Thunderbolt | Unknown | — |
| Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a Scout | Unknown | — |
| Saphir hang glider | Unknown | — |
| Scheibe Specht glider | Unknown | — |
| Stearman PT-17 Kaydet | Unknown | — |
| ULM UNABE Cormorán glider | Unknown | — |
| Voisin cellular biplane display aircraft | Unknown | — |
| Vought-Sikorsky OS2U Kingfisher | Unknown | — |
| Vultee BT-13 | Unknown | — |
| Wright Flyer (replica) | 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.