TAM Museum

The TAM Museum (), also known as the Museu Asas de um Sonho (Wings of a Dream Museum), is an aviation museum located from central city São Carlos, and from São Paulo City within the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

The museum was the creation of Rolim Adolfo Amaro, founder and president of TAM Airlines, and his brother João Francisco Amaro. The building is adjacent to the TAM Airlines Technology Center at São Carlos Airport, in the district of in São Carlos.

History In 1996, after finishing the restoration work on a Cessna 195, brothers Rolim Adolfo Amaro and João Francisco Amaro decided to buy some classic aircraft, and keep them near São Paulo, in order to make them available for flights on weekends with friends. Realising the small collection could form the basis of an aviation history museum, the brothers then decided to create the "Museu Asas de um Sonho" (Wings of a Dream Museum). It was maintained by the Education Service and Culture, a non-profit association founded by TAM on 23 December 1991, to administer the social programs of the company.

In 2006, the museum opened with 32 aircraft and was intended to have more than 80 aircraft. The opening was part of the celebrations of 150 years of the city of São Carlos.

In July 2008, the museum was closed to visitors in order to allow a complete reorganization of its installations, which included an expansion of the covered space from 9.5 thousand square metres to over 20 thousand square metres. The grand re-opening occurred in June 2010 and among the collection of 90 airplanes, held the sole surviving S.55 seaplane christened "Jahú", a F4U Corsair, a Bf 109, a Dassault Mirage III, a Brazilian aircraft Neiva Regente.

On January 29, 2016, TAM announced that the museum would be ceasing operations due to budget concerns. Closure actually happened on February 2, 2016, and on May 18, 2018, it was announced that it would be relocated close to the Brazilian Aerospace Memorial at São José dos Campos Airport, near the Embraer plant, but this never happened.

On December 16, 2019, the president of the Brazilian Aviation Institute (IBA), Francisco Lyra, announced to an audience at the opening of the São Paulo Catarina business aviation airport that his next project would be to preserve the "Asas de um Sonho" aviation museum. It was intended by the follower Latam Airlines Group to postpone the acerve to Campo de Marte Airport, which also never happened.

In March 2022, it was mistakenly reported that the museum pieces had been acquired by Helisul, an air taxi company, and would be displayed at the Foz do Iguaçu Convention Center. However, the company denied the purchase, although it did not rule out the possibility of a future partnership.

Finally, in May 2023, the museum was reopened on the original location in São Carlos. However, it soon closed again.

Then, in 2024, it was revealed that Marcos Amaro, owner of Museum, was planning to transfer its pieces to Itú.

In 2025, it was announced that 80 aircraft will be transferred to a proposed Museu Aeroespacial Paulista, located in the Parque de Material Aeronáutico area at Campo de Marte Airport in São Paulo. The new museum will be a joint venture between the Brazilian Air Force and the Museu Asas de um Sonho and will cost R$350 million. The first three aircraft were ceremonially transferred to the Brazilian Air Force in June.

Collection

Source: Ogden The museum has more than 35 aircraft in a historical building measuring 450 metres long by 130 metres wide and 11 metres high. The exhibits planned to be accessible to visitors in 2010 were as follows:

Designation IdentityNotes Aeronca C-3NC14630 Boeing-Stearman Model 75LV-FGD Bücker Bü 131 JungmannE3B-595 Cessna 140PP-DYX Cessna 180PT-BXZ Cessna 185PT-KJM Cessna 195PT-LDK Cessna L-19 Bird Dog 54736 Cessna L-19 Bird Dog 62612 Cessna L-19 Bird Dog 72774 Douglas DC-3N101KC"Rose" EAY YpirangaPT-ZGY Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante TAM Fairchild UC-61A2687 Fairchild PT-19 CornellPP-GAY Fokker F27 Friendship TAM Gloster Meteor F.84440 Lockheed 049 ConstellationPP-PDDBought in Paraguay and painted as Panair do Brasil Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-212456 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-156247 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1723 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-2117 Miles M.2H Hawk MajorG-ADAS Neiva CAP-4 PaulistinhaN-505Marinha Nord 1203 NorécrinPP-EBE Republic P-47D Thunderbolt229265 Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser IPE Quero Quero KW.1PT-PEISailplane IPE Quero Quero KW.1PT-PFJSailplane RWD-13PT-LFY Santos-Dumont 14-bisReplica Santos-Dumont DemoiselleReplica Savoia-Marchetti S.55 I-BAUQ"Jahú" Schneider Grunau Baby IIb Glider Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX EN398 Universal Flea ShipPP-TKX Vought F4U Corsair17-F-13

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