Aircraft

Avro Vulcan B.2 XJ823
Synonymous with the Cold War and Britains nuclear deterrent of the 1960's, the impressivesize of Avro s delta winged bomber is testamentto the ingenuity and skills of the post warBritish aircraft industry.

English Electric Canberra T4 WE188
In 1944 there was a call for designs for a fast, high-altitude, jet-powered medium bomber to replace the Mosquito. In the same year, English Electric took up the challenge and conceived the aircraft that was to become the world famous Canberra.

Sikorsky S.55 Helicopter WV198
This helicopter is the sole survivor of the original Sikorsky built Whirlwinds and is the only example to be preserved in a museum. It seved with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

English Electric Lightning F53
Described as having all the aesthetic beauty of a suitcase, the Lightning was the Spitfire of its generation and what it lacked in the latter spoise and purebred design, it more than made up for in being one of the best all-weather interceptors of all time.

DeHavilland Vampire T11 WS515
The Vampire has the famous DeHavilland Mosquito as its direct lineage with the fuselage pod constructed from laminated plywood. This presents new challenges to museums more used to dealing with problems of metal corrosion in jet aircraft.

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF14 WS832
The Meteor NF14 is the last of the Gloster Meteor breed and our example spent most of its life as a research and communications aircraft at RAE Llanbedr.

Percival Sea Prince T Mk1 WP309
The Sea Prince is a version of the Percival Prince, a family of small twin radial engined aircraft used for training radar operators.

British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3 XV259 Cockpit
The Nimrod AEW3 was an airborne early warning aircraft developed from the DeHavilland Comet 4 Airliner. The AEW3 had a bulbous nose and tail boom that housed the radar equipment.

McDonnell-Douglas Phantom FGR2
The awesome Phantom is one of our non-British aircraft exhibits. Although the Phantom was built by McDonnell Douglas in the USA, a large part of the FGR2 was British built.

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Grass Hopper
The Grasshopper is a primary glider intended, as the name suggests, to give basic training through short 'hops' on airfields or school playing fields. It was based on a pre-war German design but used the wings of the Slingsby Cadet MkI and was designed to be easily dismantled for storage.

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Hawker Hart
The very first aircraft recovered by members was a 1930’s Hawker Hart trainer. Found in a barn near Nelson Thomlinson School, Wigton, it was partially restored by members. Without a covered display area to preserve this rare aircraft, the Museum was forced to donate the aircraft to the RAF Museum Hendon where it is now displayed.