France museum

Le Bourget is the airfield where Charles Lindberg landed in 1927 when he performed the first non-stop flight from America to Europe, a 33h30 solo flight across the North Atlantic. During half a century, the Age of pioneers, Le Bourget airport was the hub of French aviation saga, the departure and arrival point of many famous flights. Since 1973, Le Bourget is better known as the seat of the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace. The museum is a major cultural and tourist site located at 8 km North of Paris. In more than 18000 m² of covered exhibition space, it presents an outstanding collection of more than 150 original aicrafts, including 2 Concorde and a Boeing 747, as well as numerous space objects, life-size replicas of Ariane 1 and 5 rockets.