Originally known as ”Campo dos Afonsos” airfield, the cradle of Brazilian military aviation and site of the first aeronautical organization created in Brazil: the ”Aeroclube do Brasil” (Flying club of Brazil), on October 1911. Nowadays, the area is one of the Brazilian Air Force’s main airbases, with the adjacent museum, that houses a good collection of planes, engines, etc. including replicas of Santos-Dumont’s main machines, the ”14-bis” and the ”Demoiselle”.