The working workshop
Historic aircraft restoration behind glass.
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It is one of its three branches: the main museum on an island in the Isar in central Munich, the Verkehrszentrum for land transport in Schwanthalerhöhe, and this aviation branch at Schleissheim. Tickets are separate for each, with a combined ticket if you plan more than one. The three branches do not overlap in content.
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The Flugwerft Schleissheim is the aviation branch of the Deutsches Museum, and it sits on one of Germany's oldest airfields: the site was established in 1912 as a base for the Royal Bavarian Flying Corps, and the original workshop buildings and control tower still stand and are used as exhibition halls. The collection holds over sixty real aircraft spanning a full century: early gliders, fighters from both wars, airliners, helicopters, an American Phantom, and examples from East German aviation. The aircraft are displayed whole rather than sectioned, and some are suspended in the air. Its genuine distinction is that the workshop is working: restoration can be watched through glass — technicians actually dismantling and restoring historic aircraft, which you do not see in closed aviation museums. The site is directly beside the Schleissheim palaces, so the two can be combined in one day in good weather.
Historic aircraft restoration behind glass.
Among Germany's oldest surviving aviation buildings.
Effnerstrasse 18, 85764 Oberschleissheim