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The Royal Air Force Museum Midlands, located at RAF Cosford in Shropshire, is a free museum dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force in particular. The museum is part of the Royal Air Force Museum, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Ministry of Defence and also a registered charity. [2] The museum is spread over ...
Royal Air Force Transport Command: Metropolitan Communication Squadron RAF at RAF Hendon: Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3: XZ997: Falklands Exhibition Boeing CH-47 Chinook HC.6A: ZA718: BN: Bravo November Falklands Exhibition Comper CLA.7 Swift: G-ACGL: de Havilland Chipmunk T.10: WP912: used by the Duke of Edinburgh for flight training Aberdeen ...
RAF Cosford opened in 1938 as a joint aircraft maintenance, storage and technical training unit. [2] It was originally intended to be opened as RAF Donington (the parish in which it is located) but to avoid confusion with the nearby army camp at Donnington it was named after Cosford Grange House which was located at the south western edge of the airfield. [3]
Some of the former No. 2 S of TT hangars on the airfield site at Cosford became the home of the RAF Museum site at the base. [14] By the 1980s, with the focus on the avionics, radar, and flight systems training, the school had become the largest ground training environment within the RAF. [15]
Royal Air Force Museum London in Colindale, opened 1972; Royal Air Force Museum Midlands in Cosford, opened 1979; MOD Stafford, a current military base where the museum's reserve collection has been stored since 2000; this is not open to the public. The idea of an RAF Museum was approved by the Air Council in 1931. However the Council only ...
RAF Scampton Heritage Centre, Scampton, Lincolnshire; RAF Sculthorpe Heritage Centre, Wicken Green, Norfolk [30] RAF Waddington Heritage Centre, Waddington, Lincolnshire [31] Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, Derby, Derbyshire; Royal Air Force Museum London, Hendon, London; Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire; Science and Industry ...
This list of Royal Air Force stations is an overview of all current stations of the Royal Air Force (RAF) throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. This includes front-line and training airbases , support, administrative and training stations with no flying activity, unmanned airfields used for training, intelligence gathering stations and an ...
Two airframes eventually survived: the complete XR220 at the RAF Museum, Cosford, and the much less complete [citation needed] XR222 at the Imperial War Museum Duxford. The only airframe ever to fly, XR219 , along with the completed XR221 and part completed XR223 were taken to Shoeburyness and used as targets to test the vulnerability of a ...