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Duxford Aerodrome (ICAO: EGSU) is located 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) south of Cambridge, within the civil parish of Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England and nearly 1-mile (1.6 km) west of the village. The airfield is owned by the Imperial War Museum (IWM) and is the site of the Imperial War Museum Duxford and the American Air Museum.
The Fighter Collection is a private operator of airworthy vintage military aircraft or warbirds.It is based in the United Kingdom at Duxford Aerodrome in Cambridgeshire, an airfield that is owned by the Imperial War Museum and is also the site of the Imperial War Museum Duxford.
RAF Duxford, a Royal Air Force fighter station had been declared surplus to requirements by the Ministry of Defence in 1969, and the museum duly requested permission to use part of one of the airfield's hangars as temporary storage. Duxford featured three double bay hangars of First World War vintage, which together provided over 9,000 square ...
After retirement it was on display at Lasham Airfield until it was transferred to the Duxford Aviation Society and moved to Duxford in 1986 for a 20-year restoration programme. [2] BAC TSR.2: XR222 Royal Air Force Concorde: G-AXDN Former pre-production development aircraft G-AXDN was donated to the society and flown to Duxford in 1977. [3]
Duxford airfield later became a fighter airfield for the United States Army Air Forces operating P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft. In 1972 the Ministry of Defence began to house historically important aircraft in the hangars, which in 1977 became the Imperial War Museum Duxford. The airfield was used in the motion picture The Battle of Britain.
In 2014, N3200 was restored to flight by the Aircraft Restoration Company workshops at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford airfield in Cambridgeshire. N3200 was restored with the same markings worn when it was downed. [4] [5]. N3200 is now a featured exhibit in the Imperial War Museum display at Duxford.
AK875 – Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia. [96] P-40E/Kittyhawk IA. AK803/1034 – Erickson Aircraft Collection in Madras, Oregon. Formerly resident at Victoria International Airport in British Columbia [97] and the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, Blenheim. [98] For sale as of June 2020. [99]
The 78th FG was reactivated in Germany on 20 August 1946, replacing the 368th Fighter Group (which was inactivated, redesignated the 136th Fighter Group, and allotted to the National Guard) at AAF Station Straubing, Germany and flew the former 368th's P-47 Thunderbolts from the airfield. The group was reactivated due to the Air Force's policy ...