Ulyanovsk Civil Aviation Museum

Not far from the airport Ulyanovsk Central is the city Ulyanovsk Museum of Civil Aviation. It belongs to the Ulyanovsk Higher Aviation School, and in addition to the exhibition museum function, cadets are constantly trained on unique simulators that are used to train pilots. All the planes in the museum arrived here on their own and still almost all are in working condition.

In addition, the museum has four halls with exhibits illustrating the history of aviation from the Civil War to the present day. Among the presented equipment there are unique aircraft. For example, one of the two TU-144, which were produced to carry passengers on regular routes Moscow - Almaty. This is the only one that flew to the International Air Show in Le Bourget in 1977.

There is also a rare copy of the TU-116 No. 76462. This aircraft was produced on the basis of the TU-95 bomber specifically for the first person of the state N.S. Khrushchev. A total of two such aircraft were produced, but only one survived.