The Aviation Education Exhibition Center in Kaohsiung is not only designed to look like a UFO, but it has something unique inside — it is the first museum in Taiwan where historically important planes are exhibited suspended from the ceiling.
The museum’s exterior was designed to convey the idea of an advanced aircraft carrying older planes, the center said.
It has 36 decommissioned military planes, 19 of which are hung from the ceiling, including an AT-6 trainer, an F-84G, a U-3A liaison aircraft and others used between 1945 and 1967.
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Also suspended from the ceiling are an O-1 observation aircraft and an UH-1H helicopter, along with three Chinese MiGs that were flown to Taiwan by defectors, the center said.
Among the ground exhibits are a C-47 transport plane used between 1937 and 1945, a B-26 bomber and an F-104G that saw service between 1945 and 1967.
Covering 2.8 hectares, the facility, which is located at the Air Force Academy on the Gangshan Air Base, opened for a trial run in August last year.
The academy said it would commission a private company to run the center before it is formally opened to the public.
However, since the center is on a military
base, Chinese nationals and Hong Kong and Macau residents will not be allowed to visit for security reasons, the center said.
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