Aeroscopia Museum, Toulouse-Blagnac

Aeroscopia is the aviation museum of the Toulouse region, on Allée André Turcat in Blagnac, next to Toulouse-Blagnac Airport and the Airbus assembly lines. It shows aircraft from Concorde to the A380 and suits aviation fans, families and anyone combining a museum visit with an Airbus factory tour.

Opened in January 2015 with 25 aircraft

The museum was inaugurated on 13 January 2015 and received its first visitors the next day. At opening it showed 25 aircraft and more than 30 scale models, many restored by volunteer associations such as Ailes Anciennes Toulouse, which keeps its own collection next door.

An 8,000 square metre hall and outdoor tarmac

The main hall is 100 metres long, 72 metres wide and 23 metres high, giving about 8,000 square metres under one roof. A further 5,000 square metres of open-air display surrounds it, and a separate tarmac of around two hectares to the north holds the largest aircraft.

Inside the presidential Concorde F-WTSB

Two Concordes recall that the supersonic airliner was assembled in Toulouse. F-BVFC, in Air France colours, stands outside, while the pre-series F-WTSB, which once carried French presidents, is indoors and can be visited.

The Airbus story is told through several aircraft, including the A300B4 F-WUAB, painted in the colours of the first prototype and open inside, and A320 and A340 aircraft. On the north tarmac an A380 can be entered by glazed walkways that reach both decks. A Super Guppy, the bulbous transport plane once used to carry Airbus sections between factories, is another highlight, alongside older aircraft, engines and cockpit sections and displays on Toulouse's aviation pioneers.