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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.
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 ...
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.
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 July 2020, Faradair announced a move to Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire from its original Cirencester base, to form part of the new Duxford Avtech aerospace development programme. A new prototyping hangar is to be built at the historic airfield with the company announcing partnership with Imperial War Museum Duxford and Gonville & Caius ...
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.
The Imperial War Museum (IWM), currently branded "Imperial War Museums", is a British national museum.It is headquartered in London, with five branches in England. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, it was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of the United Kingdom and its Empire during the First World War.