Ankara Aviation Museum Northrop F-5 aircraft are placed, which visitors can take a seat in. Ankara Aviation Museum Ankara Aviation Museum () is a military-based museum for aviation, owned and operated by the Turkish Air Force. The museum is located in Etimesgut district of Ankara, Turkey. The area of the museum is . The museum is located on the state highway , also known as Fatih Sultan Mehmet Boulevard, at . Its distance to Ankara center is about . The museum is open to the public everyday but Mondays from 9:00 to 16:30 local time. The museum was established by the Turkish Air
History of Ankara in 1356. Another Turkic ruler, Timur, defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Ankara in 1402 and captured the city, but in 1403 Ankara was again under Ottoman control. Following the Ottoman defeat during World War I, the Ottoman capital Constantinople was occupied by the Allies. The Turkish nationalist movement, under Kemal Atatürk, established its headquarters in Ankara in 1920 (see Turkish War of Independence). After the War of Independence was won, the Turkish nationalists abolished the Ottoman Empire on October 29, 1923. A few days earlier, on October 13, 1923, Ankara had replaced Constantinople as its capital, and it