Aviation Museum Belgrade

Belgrade Aviation Museum - darkometer rating : 3 - A museum near Belgrade 's airport about Yugoslav aviation, civilian as well as military, featuring various more or less rare planes as well as some trophy bits and pieces from shot-down US planes from the 1999 war with NATO , which are probably the most interesting items from a dark tourism perspective. > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos What there is to see: primarily, lots of planes, as you would expect – some looking a bit battered (especially the ones outside), others in pristine condition (those inside). For the dark tourist, though, the main reason for coming all the way out here is more likely to be the parts of shot-down planes from the 1999 war. In order to find the relevant section first thing, ignore the suggested circuit, which is more or less historically chronologically ordered. When you arrive at the top of the stairs up from the foyer and immediately turn left and then into the central area of the circular exhibition hall. You'll see a semi-wrecked white US "Predator" drone (unmanned remote-controlled reconnaissance plane) hanging from the ceiling in front of a modern Yugoslav jet fighter, which is the largest exhibit in here. The drone was shot down over Kosovo in May 1999. To the right, almost directly underneath the tail of the drone there's a piece of the tail and cockpit canopy of a USAF F-16 jet shot down over Serbia . Opposite, i.e. to the left, the inconspicuous piece on display is the casing of what was an unexploded JDAM guided bomb used in the (allegedly "accidental") NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in May 1999 – above it is a photo of the damaged embassy building (see also under Belgrade and NATO bombing scars).