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The Royal Air Force Museum London (also commonly known as the RAF Museum) is located on the former Hendon Aerodrome, in North London's Borough of Barnet. It includes five buildings and hangars showing the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force .
RAF Stories: the first 100 years of the Royal Air Force Hawker Siddeley Gnat T.1: XR977: RAF Stories: the first 100 years of the Royal Air Force Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter (JSF-1) display mockup: n/a: RAF: First to the Future Short Sunderland MR.5: ML824: Code: MS:Z Supermarine Spitfire Vb: BL614: Code: ZD:F
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 ...
The Bristol Bloodhound is a British ramjet powered surface-to-air missile developed during the 1950s. It served as the UK's main air defence weapon into the 1990s and was in large-scale service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the forces of four other countries.
The Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon has a full size replica R.E.8, which was built by The Vintage Aviator Ltd ( TVAL ) in New Zealand in 2011. It is fitted with a "new build" RAF 4a engine and was successfully test flown at Masterton, NZ, on 1 January 2012, with the registration ZK-TVC.
painted to represent XM497 of Royal Air Force Air Support Command Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina: L-866: Royal Danish Air Force: Hawker Hunter F.6A: XG225: No. 237 Squadron RAF: Hawker Hunter FR.10: XF426: Hawker Siddeley Dominie T.1: XS709: M: No. 3 Flying Training School RAF: Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R.1: XV249: RAF Wyton 1974-1995 wears RAF ...
The Sopwith Tabloid replica on display at the Royal Air Force Museum. Data from Sopwith – The Man and His Aircraft [16] General characteristics. Crew: 1; Length: 22 ft 10 in (6.96 m) Wingspan: 25 ft 8 in (7.82 m) Height: 10 ft 0 in (3.05 m) Wing area: 240 sq ft (22 m 2) [17] Empty weight: 1,220 lb (553 kg) Gross weight: 1,700 lb (771 kg)
The Library of the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, north London contains more than eighty items relating to the Fellowship of the Bellows comprising letters, membership documents and photographs. Copies of much original material (including a montage of badges) was given to the library of the Royal Air Force Museum in January 1999, in the name ...