About the museum

Sola aviation museum is located in the old seaplane harbour at Stavanger Airport, Sola. The museum is an impressive sight, with a large collection of airplanes.

The museum is mainly run by volunteers who work hard and with lots of enthusias, in the museum. They do restoration of old planes, guided tours and various operational tasks. Beside housing all the jet planes the Norwegian Air Force have preciously operated, you will find everything from WWII classizs consolidated Catalina and Fiesler Storch to classics from Norwegian civil aviation in the postwar period amongs the museus’s exhibition of 30 planes.

Jærmuseet has worked closely with the Aviation History museum since 1997, and in January 2002 the museum overtook the operational responsibility of the museum.

The museum is open from April through to September.