Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

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Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

The Tangmere Military Aviation Museum is a museum located on the former site of RAF Tangmere, beside Tangmere in 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.

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

  • Hawker Hurricane – replica[4]
  • Supermarine Spitfire K5054 – replica[5]
  • Westland Lysander – replica[6]

Jet aircraft

De Havilland Sea Vixen
  • de Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.2 XJ580[7]
  • de Havilland Vampire T.11 XH313[8]
  • English Electric Lightning F.53 ZF578[9]
  • Gloster Meteor F.4 EE549[10]
  • Gloster Meteor F.8 WA829/WA984[11]
  • Hawker Hunter F.3 WB188[12]
  • Hawker Hunter F.5 WP190[13]
  • Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 XV744[14]
  • McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.2 XV408[15]
  • Supermarine Swift FR.5 WK281[16]

Helicopters

  • Westland Wessex HU.5 XS511[17]

Others

Rolls-Royce Derwent

The museum also has a range of:

  • Aircraft cockpits
  • Simulators
  • Aircraft engines

Location

Outside links

 ("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Tangmere Military Aviation Museum)

References

  1. ↑ "About Tangmere". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/about-tangmere. Retrieved 25 September 2020. 
  2. ↑ Ellis 2004, pp. 215-216.
  3. ↑ "Merston Hall". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/what-to-see/merston-hall. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  4. ↑ "Hawker Hurricane Mk 1". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/hawker-hurricane-mk-1. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  5. ↑ "Prototype Spitfire". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/prototype-spitfire. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  6. ↑ "Westland Lysander Mk III (SD)". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/westland-lysander-mk-iii-scw. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  7. ↑ "De Havilland Sea Vixen FAW2". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/de-havilland-sea-vixen-faw2. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  8. ↑ "De Havilland Vampire T11". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/de-havilland-vampire-t11. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  9. ↑ "English Electric Lightning F53". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/english-electric-lightning-f53. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  10. ↑ "Gloster Meteor F4". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/gloster-meteor-f4. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  11. ↑ "Gloster Meteor F8". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/gloster-meteor-f8. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  12. ↑ "Hawker Hunter Mk3". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/hawker-hunter-mk3. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  13. ↑ "Hawker Hunter Mk 5". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/hawker-hunter-mk-5. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  14. ↑ "Hawker-Siddeley Harrier GR3". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/hawker-siddeley-harrier-gr3. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  15. ↑ "McDonnell Douglas Phantom". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/mcdonnell-douglas-phantom. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  16. ↑ "Supermarine Swift FR5 | WK281". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/supermarine-swift-fr5-wk281-2. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  17. ↑ "Westland Wessex Helicopter". http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/museum-aircraft/westland-wessex-helicopter. Retrieved 28 July 2020. 
  • Ellis, Ken. Wrecks and Relics - 19th Edition (Midland Publishing, 2004) ISBN 1 85780 183 0
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