Aviation Museum Hrdlořezy
At the museum, you have the opportunity to learn more about the history of Czechoslovak aviation — military, civil, and sport. The exhibition is divided into indoor and outdoor sections.
The indoor exhibition includes historic airport personnel uniforms, aircraft and helicopter dashboards, ejection seats, parts from air crashes, a piston engine and a jet engine from the L-29 Delfín training jet, and the globally recognized Czechoslovak training glider L-13 Blaník. You’ll also find answers to questions like: What happens during ejection? Why did each aircraft have its own set of tools? And why did German WWII pilot uniforms resemble those of 1950s Czechoslovak pilots?
The outdoor exhibition includes a MiG-21 F-13 fighter jet made during the socialist era in Czechoslovakia, a multipurpose Mi-2 helicopter you can sit in, Tumansky R-11 jet engines from the MiG-21, and the Klimov GTD-350 from the Mi-2. You’ll learn how planes brake during landing, where fuel tanks are cleverly hidden inside, and what happens when a helicopter engine fails.
We try to describe the previous history of each artifact. One particularly interesting story is of our Mi-2 with serial number 4541, whose complete documentation revealed a film career — it appeared in the 1980 movie Za trnkovým keřem, starring Tomáš Holý.
The museum is located in the village of Hrdlořezy near Suchdol nad Lužnicí. If you’re arriving by car, you can park directly at the museum. If you prefer not to drive, you can take the train to the Hrdlořezy stop, which is just a 2-minute walk from the museum. Cyclists can also make a stop here while exploring the Třeboňsko or Novohradsko regions.
For those who don’t just like reading descriptions, we offer guided tours of the entire exhibition.
