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PAF museum
Topic Started: Jun 12 2007, 11:39 PM (989 Views)
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Air Force museum opens July
By Tarra Quismundo
Inquirer
Last updated 11:12pm (Mla time) 06/12/2007


MANILA, Philippines -- After almost a decade of conception and construction, the Philippine Air Force (PAF) will open its new museum in time for its 60th anniversary next month.

As the service marks its foundation anniversary, the PAF Aerospace Museum at the Villamor Air Base opens this July as a facility that is touted to offer pieces of civil and military aviation history and aerospace science and technology to the public.

“It portrays the rich cultural heritage of the Air Force and captures the bravery of Filipino airmen during World War 2 and the succeeding internal conflicts,” said Colonel Eduardo Diano, museum project manager and curator.

A brand new replacement to the old Air Force Museum, the three-story facility was among the buildings replicated for PAF by the state-run Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and the private developer Megaworld Corp., currently pursuing a commercial redevelopment project on part of the air base.

The old museum, which used to stand in the site being converted as a commercial and recreational property, was earlier torn down to give way to the BCDA-Megaworld project. Last year, it hosted 175,000 visitors, many of them students, their teachers and parents, Diano said.

The new P86-million facility was built over nine years, and construction crews are currently putting finishing touches, assembling displays and installing exhibits.

The museum stands at the intersection of national roads spanning the Villamor Air Base complex, just within sight of the mothballed Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3. Adjacent to it is PAF's Aircraft Park, where 18 kinds of military aircraft had been permanently towed.

“The museum will have two portions. The first floor will have interactive displays of modern aerospace science at the first floor and then at the second floor, we will put displays of the Air Force heritage and the history of aviation,” Diano told the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Tuesday while on a break from directing the installation of displays at the museum.

At the topmost floor, meanwhile, museumgoers may stand on the viewing deck and enjoy the view of the air base and its surroundings.

The ground floor will house an interactive display of aircraft parts such as turbines, landing gears, and engine cutouts, an old trainer and bomber aircraft where museum-goers may sit for the experience, and a jet simulator complete with a wall projection of a 135-degree view of what a pilot would see during a flight.

Photos of former Air Force commanding generals, pilot classes and airmen engaged in combat missions will hang on walls of the upper floor. Scenes of history will meanwhile be captured in dioramas also to be placed at the second floor.

The museum will feature a 50-seater theater, where museumgoers may watch war movies, a 300-seater all-purpose auditorium and a library with shelves filled with books on military history and other related reading materials.

Diano said the Air Force has yet to decide if it will ask entrance fees, but said off-hand that P10 or P20 may be charged to visitors to cover maintenance costs and fund the development of other museums in air fields across the country.
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Nice, now im curious. Any websites of this said new museum and photos? Thanks. :thumb:
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Looks like the PAF Museum is really worth a visit
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Air Force Museum a surprise hit, says PAF


By Tarra Quismundo
Inquirer
Last updated 10:00pm (Mla time) 11/12/2007


MANILA, Philippines -- Four months since it opened, the new Philippine Air Force (PAF) Aerospace Museum has been doing better than expected, attracting more than twice the number of visitors the old museum received on average daily.

“It has surpassed our expectations... Maybe that's because the museum is new and we have received attention from the media. We also send out letters to schools and tour agencies by mail to encourage them to visit us,” museum curator Colonel Eduardo Diano
Diano told the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Monday.

From its opening in July until the end of October, the newly built Aerospace Museum hosted a total of 67,500 paying visitors, averaging 562 visitors a day in the last four months. The figure doubled the number of patrons who toured the old PAF Museum throughout 2006, Diano said.

Located at the Villamor Air Base in Pasay City, the P86-million museum opened last July as part of PAF's 60th Anniversary celebration. It was built for PAF by the state-run Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and private developer Megaworld Corp., whose partnership has been converting a sprawling area of the military base into commercial and recreational grounds.

The new museum replaced the smaller two-story building where PAF and Philippine aviation relics were housed.

It was torn down late 2006 to give way to the private-government conversion project. The old building hosted 75,000 visitors throughout last year -- an average of some 205 museum-goers a day -- before it was demolished.

Since then, visitors have been pouring in, said Diano, all enticed to see the museum's exhibits that included old fighter jets, interactive displays of aircraft parts, and PAF memorabilia.

“It's 65 percent students and then there's a percentage of parents who accompany the students to tours, and 15 percent are walk-in visitors, including adults, families and those from the working class,” said Diano.

He said the museum has been a hit for school tours arranged through tour agencies. At a given time, he said, there could be a line of 700 gradeschoolers viewing the museum's displays. Such goes on Mondays through Saturdays, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“The museum can accept 5,000 throughout the day. There is a tour route that visitors follow that's why there is no crowding up, there are passageways for all visitors even during times that we have so many [museum-goers] inside,” Diano said.

The volume of visitors generated an added revenue of roughly P1.5 million for PAF, totaled from the entrance fee of P20 and extra fees paid for the use of the museum's flight simulator, theater and auditorium.

“We use that to maintain the building and the displays. Whatever is left, we save and deposit at the PAF Finance Center so we can build up funds for the construction of field museums at the air bases in Mactan, Cebu and Zamboanga City,” Diano said.



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