TAM Museum

Preservation at its best

The TAM Museum is simply the best private aeronautical museum in South America. It is one of the top four museums in the Americas. Located in São Carlos, São Paulo State, Brazil it belongs to TAM airlines, which has flights to all continents with the largest and most modern fleet in Brazil.

It was the dream of its founder, Rolim Amaro who died before seeing his dream come true. Now his brother João Amaro runs the museum which has more than 80 planes, 30 among them airworthy.

You will find Spitfire, Corsair, Thunderbolt, Messerschmitt 109 among others from WW2, Vietnan War planes, commercial planes like the Super Constellation from Panair do Brasil, Embraer Bandeirante, Russian jets like Mig-17, Mig-19 and Mig-21. Also the planes from Santos-Dumont, Demoiselle and 14-Bis (reproductions).

The Museum opened in November 11, 2006 and now after being closed for more than a year it will be reopened in June 13, 2010 with double the area and a substancial increase in the collection. New additions will be in the form a Junkers Ju 52 trimotors, a DC-3 and a Mirage jet from Brazilian Air Force and a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, just to tell a few.

To get there simply go to São Paulo and catch a TAM flight to São Carlos, only 150 miles away.