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Ukraine's State Aviation Museum ranked among world's best

Ukraine's National Aviation Museum has been ranked among the top 14 aviation museums in the world, according to CNN.

The complex houses one of the globe's largest displays (20 hectares) of aviation technology and occupies the sixth place in the rating. 

The museum currently offers 90 exhibits, including supersonic bomber planes, cargo aircrafts, nuclear missile carriers, helicopters and drones, which were used by the Soviet Air Forces, Ukraine's Air Forces or exploited for civil aviation. 

However, most of the exhibited planes are those produced during Soviet times.

One of the most impressive exhibits is the Tupolev-104 aircraft - the world's first jet airliner which made its first passenger flight in 1956, between Moscow and Irkutsk.

Ukraine's National Aviation Museum is operated by Ukraine's National Aviation University, which uses the site for training and education.

 

Top 10 museums across the world: 

1. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Washington, D.C.) 

2. Imperial War Museum Duxford (Duxford, UK) 

3. National Museum of the United States Air Force (Ohio, United States) 

4. Future of Flight Aviation Center and Boeing Tour (Washington, United States) 

5. French Air and Space Museum (Le Bourget, France) 

6. State Aviation Museum of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine) 

7. Pima Air & Space Museum (Arizona, United States) 

8. Polish Aviation Museum (Krakow, Poland) 

9. China Aviation Museum (Beijing) 

10. Canada Aviation and Space Museum (Ottawa, Canada)