SMA celebrates nine decades of evolution in the aviation scene: UAE

SMA celebrates nine decades of evolution in the aviation scene: UAE

Sharjah Museums Authority (SMA) is launching an array of activities to mark the UAE’s Civil Aviation Day and the anniversary of the Imperial Airways aircraft’s first landing at the region’s first airport ‘Sharjah Air Station - Al Mahatta’. The landing took place in 1932 and it served as a connecting bridge between the East and the West.

To commentate the special occasion, visitors were offered free entry on October 5 to view the new exhibition titled "Sharjah Air Station: The First Landing 90 Years Ago" which runs for a period of one year starting October 3 to shine light on the region’s first airport that connected the UK with India and Australia.

Manal Ataya, Director General of SMA opened the exhibition in the presence of Dr Webber Ndoro, Director General of ICCROM and Dr Zaki Aslan, Director ICCROM-Sharjah.

First airport

“The exhibition is a great way to further appreciate the history of the first airport in the UAE and Sharjah Emirate’s early realisation of the importance of cross-cultural dialogue and mobility by opening the first airport in the region,” said Ataya.

“The book ‘Sharjah Air Station: between East and West’ by His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan Bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah reflects the