Museum Review: Luxembourgish Aviation Museum

The Luxembourgish Aviation Museum isn’t top of peoples list to visit when it comes to aviation museum, situated in a health spa resort just meters away from the French border in Mondorf-les-Bains. Whilst the building itself is relatively small they have managed to display quite a bit inside it. Mondorf-les-Bains was the site of the first in Luxembourg in April 1910 with the museum opening its doors in 2012.The Museum which is open from 1400-1800 Wednesday through to Sunday is free of charge and only a short walk from the town center, spread across two levels entering via the main entrance found on the ground floor your instantly greeted by the fuselage of a Scheibe Bergfalke III and a hang glider suspended from the ceiling in the atrium the other other exhibits on the lower floor charts the history of aviation in Luxembourg through a series of display board and videos.

Whilst on the upper floor with its light and airy glass walls and ceiling house the majority of the larger exhibits and aircraft. Two of the exhibits do have links to the southwest that being two Bristol built Cameron Balloons a Cameron Balloon s O-105 & Cameron Balloons O-77 understood to be the first Hot Air Balloons registered in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Also on display were Klemn KL.25R a German designed monoplane from the 1920’s. Immaculately finished in a red and white gloss scheme it was restored specifically to go on display in the museum and the story of the restoratation can be found on display directly underneath t. suspended from the celienin next to the KL.25R was a Colomban MC.15 Cri-Cri the unusual French aircraft first flew in 1973 and was designed as a home built kit aircraft that could easily be built and stored in the owners garage and even towed behind a car. the last aircraft on display is a Eipper Quicksilver MXI a kit built high wing, single-engine, ultralight aircraft which the manufacturer claims can be constructed in less than 30 hours.

Due to the small nature of the Museum photography is tricky with the author electing to use just a iPhone over a DSLR due to the close proximity of the aircraft. Even a 10-18mm lens would probably be too tight to get the whole airframe in shot.