page_title: Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics
section_title: Relics and reconstructions
hierarchical_section_title: Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics / Collection / Relics and reconstructions
caption_attribution_description: English: The reconstruction of a 1920s airscrew factory in the Museo dell'aeronautica Gianni Caproni in Trento, Italy.Italiano: La ricostruzione di un'officina per la produzione di eliche aeronautiche degli anni 1920 presso il Museo dell'aeronautica Gianni Caproni di Trento.
context_page_description: The Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics is Italy's oldest aviation museum, as well as the country's oldest corporate museum. It was established in 1927 as the Caproni Museum by Italian aviation pioneer and aeronautical engineer, Giovanni Battista "Gianni" Caproni and his wife, Timina Guasti Caproni.
  The museum was originally located in Taliedo, in the suburbs of Milan. The aircraft in the collection were moved to Venegono Superiore during World War II, and the exhibition was reopened in Vizzola Ticino in the 1960s. At the end of the 1980s, the museum moved to its present location. The current museum building, 5 kilometres south of Trento and adjacent to the Trento Airport, was opened on 3 October 1992.
context_section_description: Besides the aircraft in the Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics collection (some of which have survived with no damage or have been restored while others have only survived as components), the museum houses and displays many other artifacts of historical importance: engines, propellers, instruments and components of aircraft, airships and other flying machines as well as documents, medals, models, photographs and personal memorabilia. Among the most noteworthy, however, the following can be cited: the Piaggio P.XIbis R.C.40D engine that equipped the Caproni Ca.161bis which, in 1938, established an altitude world record for piston-engine aircraft which stands to the present day; a fragment of the Blériot XI that Jorge Chávez successfully completed the first air crossing of the Alps in 1910; the wing rib of a Wright brothers biplane; Guglielmo Marconi's radio which he used for the first communication by air balloons and airships, and the fuel tank of a Supermarine Spitfire which crashed in Italy during World War II.
  The Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics also houses the reconstruction of Gianni Caproni's design study. It also features a reconstruction of a 1920s propeller manufacturing workshop, built by Caproni.
caption: The museum display of a 1920s airscrew/propeller factory.
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