Flyhistorisk Museum, Sola

Flyhistorisk Museum, Sola.

This partially restored Caproni Ca.310 bomber is displayed at the museum.

Flyhistorisk Museum, Sola (Sola Aviation Museum) is an aviation museum located in Stavanger Airport, Sola, near Stavanger, Norway. The museum was founded in 1984 and is run by local volunteers. Flyhistorisk Museum, Sola went into cooperation with Jærmuseet in January 2012.

Facilities

The museum is housed in an old aircraft hangar at the former seaplane base at Stavanger Airport, built by German labour during World War II.

In the hangar, the museum houses the display, as well as a small café (with interior from a former bar for one of the fighter squadrons stationed at the airport), in addition to a workshop, where currently an Arado Ar 96, a Caproni Ca.310 bomber, a Heinkel He 115 armed seaplane are under restoration.

Flyhistorisk Museum, Sola is open between noon and 4:00 pm every Sunday from May through November, and daily except Monday in the school summer holiday.

Collection

The collection of the museum includes civilian, military and general aviation aircraft. Stavanger Lufthavn, Sola was the maintenance hub for Braathens S.A.F.E and Helikopter Service. The airport was also an active airforce base for Luftwaffe during World War II and for Royal Norwegian Air Force during the cold war. The museum has primarily concentrated its exhibition around its local history.

The museum has an extensive collection of German World War II aircraft including the latest rollout of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 in June 2020. In addition to what is probably the only remaining, or at least most complete Arado Ar 96, and the airframe of an Arado Ar 196 which was stationed on the German cruiser Blücher when she was sunk in the Oslofjord in April 1940.

The collection also contains an example of every post-war jet that has been with the Royal Norwegian Air Force including some trainers.

The museum houses examples of civilian aircraft, from floatplanes to radial engined airliners. A ex. Braathens S.A.F.E Douglas DC-6 has arrived the airport and will join the collection in August 2020.

Aircraft on display

Civilian

• Douglas DC-6, LN-SUB, used by Braathens S.A.F.E. ex. N151 with Everts Air Cargo
• Fokker F.27 Friendship 100, LN-SUF, used by Braathens S.A.F.E and Busy Bee
• Convair CV-440 Metropolitan, LN-KLK in the colors of Norsk Metropolitan Klubb. Used by SAS and Norfly
• Noorduyn Norseman, c/n 92 LN-BDR used by RNoAF and Fjellfly!
• De Havilland DH-114 Heron 1B, in the colors of Braathens S.A.F.E. ex. Garuda Indonesia PH-GHB and BUIA G-AOXL
• Aero Grand Commander 680, formerly used by the Norwegian Environmental Protection Agency (Statens Forurensingstilsyn)
• Bell 47, in the colours of Helikopter Service
• Piper J-3 Cub 43-30382 / LN-NAU
• Aérospatiale SA 332 Super Puma LN-OMC in restoration
• Eon Baby Type 8 (glider) c/n 018 LN-GBI
• Scheibe Bergfalke (glider) c/n 202 LN-GBH

Royal Norwegian Air Force aircraft

• Bell UH-1B 61-0688
• Canadair CF-104 Starfighter
• Caproni Ca.310 c/n 361
• Consolidated PBY Catalina (ex. L-857 Royal Danish Air Force)
• de Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth in restoration
• deHavilland DH115 Vampire T Mk.55 U-1217 (in Swiss colors)
• Fairchild PT-26 Cornell c/n T43-4646 L-DD/LN-BIO
• Lockheed T-33A T-Bird (ex. DT571 Royal Danish Air Force) 51-6571
• North American F-86F Sabre 53-1082
• North American F-86K 54-1266
• Northrop F-5A Freedom Fighter 66-9220
• Republic F-84G Thunderjet 51-10161 / MU-Z
• Republic RF-84F Thunderflash 51-17045 / T3-N
• Saab Safirc/n 91336

Luftwaffe

• Arado Ar 66 in restoration
• Arado Ar 96 werk. 4246 in restoration
• Arado Ar 196 original wreck from the German cruiser Blücher
• Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (in World War II Luftwaffe colors)
• Heinkel He 115 in conservation
• Messerschmitt Bf 109

Engines

• Allison J35
• Argus As 10
• BMW 132
• de Havilland Goblin
• Orenda J79
• Pratt & Whitney JT8D
• Ranger L-440
• Rolls-Royce Merlin
• Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone

Stored aircraft

• Antonov An-2 registration LY-AEQ
• Auster T7 c/n B617 ex.G-ASCF / SE-ELO
• Cessna O-1 Bird Dog
• de Havilland Tiger Moth 151
• Dornier Do 28A-1 registration LN-LMZ
• Grumman G-44 Widgeon registration LN-HAL
• North American Harvard
• Piper PA-38 Tomahawk registration LN-BFO
• Saab RF-35 Draken AR-114
• Taylorcraft A c/n 416 registration LN-FAG

External links

• Flyhistorisk Museum Sola official site