Small museums, individual displays
 

Several years ago the small aviation museum at Lasham closed to make way for some development on the airfield. It set me wondering if anyone had any recommendations for small or obscure museums or places of interest, particularly with a military aviation connection.

Pegasus Bridge - BRILLIANT - probably best small museum I have ever visited

Try the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection. It is in Hangar 1 at Old Sarum airfield.
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Only open Sat and Suns until mid-February and then every day except Mondays.

Flixton is always worth a visit if you're in the neighbourhood...

Flixton

Doncaster Air Museum
 

The Doncaster Air Museum is located on the site of the old Doncasterairfield, near the racecourse behind a massive ASDA. It holds a collection ofaircraft as you'd expect, but also marvellous displays of flying paraphernalia.Highly recommended.

Regards,

Vernon

PS It’s on a site now called Lakeside and is signposted.

Planning to visit the radar museum at Neatishead this year, that looks quite good.

Another vote for Flixton. Nice pub too!

Tangmere Military Aviation Museum.

Superb place.

The Lashenden Air Warfare Museum is worth a visit (aka Headcorn Kent).

If only to see their Fi 103R-4 Reichenberg :eek:

http://www.lashendenairwarfaremuseum...44x352_v1d.jpg

LAWM Headcorn Kent

Note : CLOSED at the moment opens in early March ... check Web Site for dates/times.

Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum

I was taken along there not knowing what to expect. Very knowledgeable staff and interesting local aviation paraphenalia in addition to the airframes. Thoroughly recommended!

Museum of Berkshire Aviation

Address: Mohawk Way, Woodley, Reading, Berkshire RG5 4UE

Home - Museum of Berkshire Aviation

not far from Junction 10 on the M4

they have a Gannet and a HP herald outside and all sorts of goodies inside

Lots of Mile stuff of course

Grangemouth Heritage Trust has a fair amount of information, photographs and layouts of the original Central Scotland Airport and its subsequent transformation into a fighter and training station in WWII.


It's manned by a bunch of very enthusiastic & knowledgeable volunteers.


You'll find it at:-
Grangemouth Heritage Trust13A La Porte Precinct Grangemouth FK3 8AZ -


The trust are actually off the main part of the precinct, on the left through the gap between the shops opposite the Bank of Scotland.


See more at: Grangemouth Heritage Trust


Unfortunately, their website seems to be down as I post this, but maybe it will be back up shortly.




Also, there is a replica Spitfire at the memorial to the pilots killed during training and on duty at RAF Grangemouth, on Bo'ness Road at the junction with Duke Street with the call sign of one of the Polish pilots killed in a flying accident & buried locally in Gransable cemetery.

Here's another:

RAF Wyton - Pathfinder Collection
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F.A.S.T museum.
 

Could look at the FAST museum in Farnborough. After all that's where it was developed...

Look up "Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire" on Google. They work for the Council and do an excellent job coordinating many aviation museums and Heritage Centres in the Lincolnshire area.


I will of course recommend the RAF Waddington Heritage Centre although this is closed at the moment for re-wiring: we should be back on line for Easter but we are in the hands of MOD contractors........ Note that being on an operational airfield means that you have to book first!


In the meantime, go to the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby to visit Just Jane.

Try this one:


Wellington Aviation Museum


Interesting area too.

You need to visit the "Enigma" complex at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes. Much of "Station X" is preserved there, with Enigma machines, Bombe machines, and Colussus, one of the world's first computers.

The guided tour is excellent, explaining some of the techniques of code-breaking, before touring the site.

This was the scene of war-winning activity during the Second World War. Churchill described Station X as "The goose that laid the golden egg, but never cackled."

Truly amazing.

You might also find this site of help/interest ...

UK Aviation Museum Guide

Old warden and the Shuttleworth collection

Shuttleworth Old Warden Park

Newark

Newark Air Museum

Stowe Marie's

Stow Maries Aerodrome

The mossies at the dehavilland museum at Salisbury hall

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And out of the box.because not a museum per se, but a cracking day out with trench emplacements set up, reenactors, full scale battle display and an airshow to boot, all done for charity......
It's a bit of a sleeper of a show.

http://www.thevictoryshow.co.uk/

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Get an OS map and have a wander around what was RAF Kings Cliffe near Wittering. All the more enjoyable for being a WWII site in slow decay:

RAF Kings Cliffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kings Cliffe

I found it by spotting the Glenn Miller memorial when out mountain biking. I subsequently got the memorial brought under the wing of RAF Wittering who didn;t even know it existed. Other than planting daffodils at Air Command (near the Spar shop), that was probably my lasting impact upon the RAF.