Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics
| Museo dell'Aeronautica Gianni Caproni | |
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| Established | 1927 |
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| Location | Via Lidorno, 3 38100 Trento Italy |
| Coordinates | 46°01′14″N 11°07′37″E / 46.020474°N 11.12683°E |
| Type | Aviation museum |
| Collection size | 26 aircraft on display several hundred historically significant artifacts |
| Curator | Michele Lanzinger |
| Nearest car park | On site (no charge) |
| Website | www.museocaproni.it |
| Area | 1,400 m² (15,000 sq ft) (main hangar only) |
The Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics (Italian: Museo dell'Aeronautica Gianni Caproni) is Italy's oldest aviation museum, as well as the country's oldest corporate museum. It was established in 1927 as the Caproni Museum (Museo Caproni) by Italian aviation pioneer and aeronautical engineer, Giovanni Battista "Gianni" Caproni and his wife, Timina Guasti Caproni.
The museum was originally located in Taliedo, in the suburbs of Milan. The aircraft in the collection were moved to Venegono Superiore during World War II, and the exhibition was reopened in Vizzola Ticino (in the province of Varese) in the 1960s. At the end of the 1980s, the museum moved to its present location. The current museum building, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Trento and adjacent to the Trento Airport (itself dedicated to the memory of Gianni Caproni), was opened on 3 October 1992.
Giovanni Battista Caproni, better known as Gianni Caproni (Arco, 1886 – Rome, 1957) was a civil and electrical engineer from Trentino, a region of northern Italy, who was renowned for his designing and flying several pioneering aircraft between 1910 and 1913. Small, single-engine aircraft, like the Caproni Ca.1, Ca.6 and Ca.12 were important milestones in the early development of Italian aviation. During World War I, Caproni became one of the most important Allied aircraft manufacturers, responsible for the design and manufacture of large, multi-engine long-range bombers like the three-engined Caproni Ca.32, Ca.33, Ca.36 and Ca.40. These bombers were some of the most significant examples of the time, in the field of heavy aircraft. During the interwar period, with the strategic bombing theories of Giulio Douhet being debated, the operational use of Caproni bombers was seen as an important landmark in the history of aviation.
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