The Museo Nacional Aeronáutica y del Espacio (MNAE) is an institution responsible for disseminating the aeronautical heritage in Chile.

486, which stipulated, among other things, that it would be located in Santiago, that it would depend on the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics and that it would be developed thanks to donations and expenditures.

[1] Originally located at Cathedral Street in Central Santiago, it later moved to other facilities belonging to the Directorate of Aeronautics and the Museo Histórico Nacional.

In 1968, it was transferred to the Paris Pavilion of the Quinta Normal, which is now occupied by the Museo Artequin; Finally, on September 20, 1988, construction began on the modern museum building, located in Cerrillos commune on land that previously belonged to Los Cerrillos Airport (Avenida Pedro Aguirre Cerda No.

[1] On March 9, 1992, the museum was inaugurated by the then president of Chile, Patricio Aylwin, the minister of defense, Patricio Rojas, the commander in chief of the Fuerza Aérea de Chile, Ramón Vega, the general director of civil aeronautics, José de la Fuente, and the director of the museum, Mario Jahn.