Musée Airborne
Airborne Museum
14 Rue Eisenhower
50480 Sainte-Mère-Église
+33 2 33 41 41 35
Fax +33 2 33 41 78 87
May – August
- Daily 09:00 – 19:00
April & September
- Daily 09:30 – 18:30
October – March
- Daily 10:00 – 18:00
December 19th – January 3rd
- Daily 10:00 – 18:00
closed in December and January expect during Christmas Holidays. The museum will close in December, 24th, 25th and 31th but also in January, 1st.
Admission fee
Gift shop
Aircraft collection
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624/D-39 45-17241 |
Douglas C-47B Dakota
Piper L-4J Grasshopper Waco CG-4A |
The Airborne Museum (Musée Airborne) is a French museum dedicated to the memory of American paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions who parachuted into Normandy on the night of June 5–6, 1944.
The WACO building, shaped like a large parachute shroud, contains an authentic WACO glider, the only example in France. Visitors get to see a glider with models of soldiers getting ready for their flight.
The Dakota building allows the public to “assist” in the preparations for the biggest military operation of the War in England, June 5, 1944, at the bottom of a real C-47. They can observe a diorama of the different recruits from the war with General Eisenhower before D-Day and the Battle of Normandy.
Operation Neptune building is composed of rooms with realistic scenography that allows visitors to relive the D-Day experience. The visitor is first invited to board a C-47 airplane in England on June 5, 1944. Then the Battle of Sainte-Mère-Église unfolds including fighting in the marshes and for the bridges before the battle of the hedgerows.