Malmen is where Baron Carl Cederström, nicknamed the “Flyer Baron” founded his flying school in 1912.

Malmen Airbase is home to the Royal Swedish Airschool operating SAAB 105 jet trainers. Along with the Swedish Army Museum in Stockholm, Flygvapenmusem constitutes the government agency Statens försvarshistoriska museer.

The museum’s collection of artifacts includes aircraft, engines, instruments and uniforms. The museum has a knowledge centre, with library and archives, containing literature, periodicals, plans, photographs and personal files relating to aviation.

The museum has been in existence since 1984, and served both as the Östgöta Wing squadron museum and a storage building in Ryd. The inauguration of the museum in 1984 marked the beginning of a public aviation museum at Malmen – the cradle of Swedish aviation.

In 1989, the museum underwent an additional expansion with a second exhibition hall, enabling it to exhibit a large collection of aircraft from the decade following 1910 to today’s JAS 39 Gripen.