page_title: Aeronautics Museum of Maracay
section_title: Aircraft collection
hierarchical_section_title: Aeronautics Museum of Maracay / Aircraft collection
caption_attribution_description: Español: Este es el avión donde emprendió la huida Marcos Pérez Jiménez. (1958) El avión con el apelativo La Vaca Sagrada es un modelo Douglas C-54 Skymaster cuatrimotor, el único avión presidencial desde su compra por Rómulo Gallegos hasta el gobierno de Rafael Caldera quien compró un H-748.
context_page_description: Venezuelan Air Force's Museo Aeronáutico de Maracay is a historical aviation museum of military and civic aeronautic technology inaugurated on 10 December 1963 and located at the installations of the former Aeropuerto Nacional Florencio Gómez adjacent to the Venezuelan Air Force officer graduation school, and the "Cradle of Venezuelan Military Aviation" in the City of Maracay, Estado Aragua, Venezuela.
  The museum is the only one of its kind in Venezuela and the largest collector and restorator of aircraft, engines, weapons, documents, photographs, maps, paintings, memorabilia and other items of historical value. The aviation museum in Maracay is one of the largest in Latin America, with over 40 aircraft on display.
context_section_description: The Aeronautics Museum in Maracay, home to the two largest Air Force bases in the country, has over 40 historical airplanes on display from different eras of Venezuelan aviation, including a replica of the Flamingo airplane "El Rio Caroni" used by Jimmie Angel during his 1937 descriptions of Angel Falls, the world's tallest waterfall discovered in 1933 by Angel, as well as the famous airplane called "La Vaca Sagrada" (Spanish for Holy Cow), used by dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1958 to flee the country to the Dominican Republic. The museum also displays a gyroplane, four historical helicopters flown by Venezuelan pilots between the 1920s and 1950s, a French made Caudron G.3 biplane from the 1910s—the first airplane owned by the Venezuelan airforce— which was reportedly restored and is currently completely operational, and a North American B-25 Mitchell type B-25J s/n 43-28096. A handful of airplanes such as a Douglas DC-3 of the 1930s piloted by Paul Vachet are on display as part of the historical era of Aeropostal, nationalized in 1934 by then president of Venezuela Juan Vicente Gómez.
caption: «La Vaca Sagrada» or Holy Cow, the plane that Marcos Pérez Jiménez flew escaping Venezuela in 1958.[5]
exif: {}