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The museum is situated on Filton Airfield and the main exhibition is housed in a First World War Grade II listed hangar, [2] A second hangar from the same era, also Grade II listed, is used as the workshop and storage area for items undergoing restoration, [3] with Concorde exhibited in a new, purpose-built hangar. The exhibits cover over 100 ...
Royal Air Force Filton or more simply RAF Filton is a former Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF) station located 5 miles (8 km) north of the city centre of Bristol, England. Throughout its existence, RAF Filton shared the airfield with the Bristol Aeroplane Company (later British Aircraft Corporation) whose works, now owned by ...
Largely now agricultural use and divided North/South by the A14. The North East corner of the airfield is now the Bottisham Airfield Museum. RAF Boulmer: England Northumberland: 1940 RAF Boulmer remains open, but the present radar control station is at a different location from the wartime airfield (which closed in the late 1960s).
Aero-engine production started close to Filton Airfield, with the acquisition of Cosmos Engineering in 1920. [10] In the same year, the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company became the Bristol Aeroplane Company, often abbreviated to BAC. From 1929 the No. 501 (City of Bristol) Squadron RAF was based at RAF Filton.
RAF Biggin Hill Museum & Chapel, Biggin Hill, Kent [23] RAF Bircham Newton Heritage Centre, Kings Lynn, Norfolk [24] RAF Burtonwood Heritage Centre, Warrington, Cheshire; RAF Coltishall Heritage Centre, Scottow, Norfolk [25] RAF Hornchurch Heritage Centre, Hornchurch, London; RAF Ingham Heritage Centre, Fillingham, Lincolnshire [26]
The squadron was first formed at RAF Filton, Bristol, on 30 June 1916 as a training squadron equipped with Royal Aircraft Factory BE2, BE12s and the Avro 504. [3] The squadron received its first Sopwith Pup [4] on 3 February 1917, and deployed to Vert Galant aerodrome (between Talmas and Beauval) in the Somme département, France on 12 March 1917.
Kent BoB Museum, Housing RAF Hendon: SA 1908 1957 1987 RAF Museum, Hendon Police College, Grahame Park Housing Estate RNAS Lee-on-Solent: SA 1917 - 29 March 1996 HM Coastguard, Unlicensed Private Airfield, Maritime & Aviation Industry RAF Lympne: SA 1916 1984 1 January 1946 Industrial Park RAF Manston: SA 1916 - 31 March 1999
Airfield 10 June 1940 RAF Drem: 28 June 1940 RAF Grangemouth with detachment at RAF Turnhouse: 2 September 1940 RAF Drem with detachments at RAF Macmerry and RAF Prestwick: 28 November 1940 RAF Exeter with detachment at RAF St Eval: 24 February 1941 RAF St Eval: 18 March 1941 RAF Portreath: 10 April 1941 RAF Filton: 7 August 1941 RAF Charmy ...