Museum Stampe & Vertongen
Museum Stampe & Vertongen stands at Antwerp’s Deurne airport, where aviation history comes together through aircraft, documents and models. Jean Stampe and Maurice Vertongen founded a flying school here before building the SV4 aircraft in their factory.
Several original SV4s, known as “Stampes,” show the planes generations of pilots used for their first lessons and the Belgian Air Force flew until 1978. Six life-size First World War aircraft include examples fitted with original rotary engines, while a workshop presents the restoration of a seventh, a Fokker D.VII. A Second World War V1 and a model of Jan Olieslagers’s Blériot aircraft widen the story across Antwerp’s skies.
The surrounding airport history reaches from the Aéro Club d’Anvers, founded in 1909, to the airfield’s opening in 1923 and its wartime role. Each year, the Stampe Fly In brings original SV4 aircraft from across Europe to the airport.
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