Night of Museums 2023 – Spend an Evening at the Aviation Museum!

The programme includes a variety of attractions, such as:

• 18:30 demonstration of the PERUN suborbital rocket
• 19:00 “F-4 Phantom — Hero of the Cold War”. A special edition of “Meeting by the Aircraft” led by Jan Hoffmann. Starring… the aircraft you’ve been waiting for — the McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II!
• 20:00 guided tour of the latest exhibition “1933 — Stanisław Skarżyński, Conqueror of the Atlantic”
• High-Flying Cinema — mysterious screenings for children and adults
  • 18:15 — cartoon
  • 19:20 — cult classic
  • 21:35 — light-hearted

Additionally, throughout the evening:

• visit the An-26 aircraft with the 8th Air Transport Base
• Robinson R44 helicopter, in which Piotr Wilk flew across the Atlantic
• for children — aviation games, sweet Wawel Truck

We invite everyone to take part in this unique Museum Night filled with fascinating aviation attractions.

Worth knowing:

McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II — a fighter-bomber acquired as a long-term deposit from the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Its presentation will be accompanied by a lecture by Jan Hoffmann, devoted to the history of its development, service and combat use. This is the most important combat aircraft of the Cold War era, renowned for its participation in the Vietnam War, the Arab-Israeli conflicts and the Iran-Iraq War.

Full-scale demonstrator of the PERUN suborbital rocket, built using SIR (Suborbital Inexpensive Rocket) technology by SpaceForest Ltd. from Gdynia. Its first successful launch took place on 25 January 2020 from the Drawsko Pomorskie training ground. During tests, the demonstrator reached an altitude of 9,750 m and a speed of Mach 1.

Robinson R44 Cadet helicopter — the helicopter in which Piotr Wilk flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 2021. The route led from the United States through Canada, Greenland, Norway and Sweden to Poland. The entire journey with stops waiting for flyable weather lasted 20 days (22 August — 10 September 2021). Total distance: 5,606 nm (10,382 km). The helicopter is on display at the Museum as a guest exhibit for several days.