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  2. List of aircraft at the Royal Air Force Museum Midlands

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    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 ...

  3. Royal Air Force Museum Midlands - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Air Force Museum Midlands, located in 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 two ...

  4. List of surviving Focke-Wulf Fw 190s - Wikipedia

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    Fw 190A-8 at Cosford. The camouflage and markings have been incorrectly applied. 733682 – Fw 190 A-8/R6 on static display at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford in Cosford, Shropshire. This airframe had originally been part of a Mistel S-3B composite aircraft along with a Junkers Ju 88 bomber-converted flying bomb.

  5. Bristol 188 - Wikipedia

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    Bristol Type 188 on static display at the RAF Museum, Cosford. The advanced nature of the aircraft meant that new construction methods had to be developed. Several materials were considered for construction and two specialist grades of steel were selected: a titanium -stabilized 18-8 austenitic steel and a 12%- Cr steel used in gas turbines ...

  6. Percival Pembroke - Wikipedia

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    WV746 – C.1 on static display at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford in Cosford, Shropshire. It was formerly the personal aircraft of the Commander in Chief of the Air Support Command in the 1970s and was modified around that time to carry a wheelchair ramp. It later served with 60 Squadron in Germany in the 1980s. [8] [9]

  7. BAC TSR-2 - Wikipedia

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    TSR-2 XR220 at RAF Museum Cosford, 2002, with open access panel revealing interior details. English Electric and Hawker Aircraft had already received some signals from the Air Ministry that a formal process would be starting, but all of the major manufacturers were able to quickly put together submissions: [34]

  8. Saunders-Roe SR.53 - Wikipedia

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    A pair of prototype SR.53 aircraft had been completed and used during flight tests. The second prototype was destroyed during one such test flight in June 1958. The first prototype has been preserved to this day. It rests on public display at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford. [4]

  9. RAF Cosford - Wikipedia

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    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]