Museo Biblioteca Convair 240

Luque, Paraguay · Paraguay

Aviation Museums › Aircraft Collection

A small aviation museum built around a restored Convair CV-240 (registration ZP-CDO) that flew Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas' inaugural flight in 1963, located at the Paraguayan Air Force's I Brigada Aérea next to the former Silvio Pettirossi airport site. The aircraft sat abandoned and deteriorating for roughly 48 years before a private-donation-funded restoration begun in 2021; it was publicly presented in May 2023 and by October 2025 had become a functioning "museum-library," open daily with free admission, holding the restored aircraft plus a documents/library collection.

Address I Brigada Aérea, frente al antiguo Aeropuerto Silvio Pettirossi, Luque, Central Department, Paraguay
Notable Exhibits
  • Convair CV-240 (ex-LV-ADO/ZP-CDO) — Restored LAP airliner, flew LAP's inaugural Asunción–Curitiba–São Paulo–Rio de Janeiro route on August 20, 1963.
  • Restored cockpit and original aircraft interior — Seats, compartments, and an onboard library area recreated during restoration.
  • Original CV-240 flight manual (in English) — Displayed as a document exhibit.
  • Aviation uniforms, photographs, and aircraft models — Part of the museum's library/collection.
  • Historical plane tickets — Including ones linked to prosecutor Marcelo Pecci and family, to whom the project is dedicated.
✦The aircraft sat outdoors and was vandalized/partly stripped for about five decades before restoration finally stuck in 2021.
✦The project was declared of national interest by Paraguay's Chamber of Deputies and is dedicated to prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who initiated the restoration commission before his 2022 murder in Colombia.

Verified 2026-10-19 · De los aires a un museo: la historia del Convair 240, Presentan el emblemático Convair 240, homenaje al fiscal Marcelo Pecci, Un pedazo de historia: la restauración de un Convair CV-240 en Paraguay contada por su protagonista