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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 ...
Poster for RAF Display, Hendon, 1925, published in Flight Magazine, 2 July 1925 The 2008 Hendon Pageant Grahame-White created a new company, the Grahame-White Aviation Company, taking control of more than 200 acres (0.81 km 2 ) of Colindale and converting it into what could be recognised as a proper modern airfield.
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.
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 ...
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)
Sebastian Cox OBE (born in 1956), is the Head of the Air Historical Branch (AHB) of the Royal Air Force, a specialist archive and history unit based at RAF Northolt, Middlesex, which seeks to maintain and preserve the historical memory of the RAF and to develop and encourage "an informed understanding of RAF and air power history by providing accurate and timely advice to Ministers, the RAF ...