Tangmere Military Aviation Museum
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Established | 1982 |
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Location | Tangmere, West Sussex |
Type | Aviation museum |
Website | http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/ |
The Tangmere Military Aviation Museum is a museum located on the former site of RAF Tangmere, West Sussex. The museum was opened in June 1982.[1] Many aerospace exhibits covering the First World War to the Cold War are on display including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and aircraft engines.
Contents
Aircraft on display
The museum aircraft are housed in two hangars with a small number on display externally. Several exhibits are on loan from the Royal Air Force Museum including the Hawker Hunter used by Neville Duke to break the airspeed record in 1953.[2][3]
Piston engine aircraft
Jet aircraft
- British Aerospace Sea Harrier
- de Havilland Sea Vixen
- de Havilland Vampire
- English Electric Lightning
- Gloster Meteor F.4
- Gloster Meteor F.8
- Hawker Hunter F.4
- Hawker Hunter F.5
- Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3
- Lockheed T-33A
- McDonnell Douglas F-4M (FGR.2) Phantom
- Supermarine Swift
Aircraft cockpits
- SE5A Replica
- Hawker Hunter
- English Electric Canberra B2
- Piston Provost (in preparation)
- Supermarine Spitfire (under construction)
Helicopters
Simulators
- English Electric Lightning (Adults only)
- Air Combat Simulator (Children only
- Red Simulators (all ages)
Aircraft engines
Piston engines
Gas turbine engines
See also
References
- Notes
- ↑ www.tangmere-museum.org.uk - Museum history Retrieved: 13 August 2012
- ↑ Ellis 2004, pp. 215-216.
- ↑ www.tangmere-museum.org.uk - Merston hall Retrieved: 13 August 2012
- Bibliography
- Ellis, Ken. Wrecks and Relics - 19th Edition, Midland Publishing, Hinckley, Leicestershire. 2004. ISBN 1 85780 183 0
External links
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