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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
The museum's London site, with replica Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane aircraft outside, 2009. The Royal Air Force Museum is a museum dedicated to the Royal Air Force in the United Kingdom. The museum is a non-departmental public body [1] and is a registered charity. [2] The museum is split into three separate sites:
Late in 1968, when two of the three runways had been removed, a Blackburn Beverley was flown in to be an exhibit at the new RAF Museum: this was the last aircraft to land at Hendon. The RAF station finally closed on 1 April 1987. [19] The site of the aerodrome is now occupied by the Grahame Park housing estate, Hendon Police College, and the ...
RAF Hendon: England Middlesex: 1910 1957 Airfield redeveloped into Graham Park housing estate (early 1970s-on) and RAF Museum, London. RAF Henley-on-Thames: England Oxfordshire: RAF Hereford: England Herefordshire: 1940 1994 Transferred to the British Army and became Stirling Lines. RAF Heston: England Middlesex: RAF Hethel: HL England Norfolk ...
The district is most famous for the London Aerodrome which later became the RAF Hendon; from 1972 the site of the RAF station was gradually handed over to housing development and to the RAF Museum. The railways reached Hendon in 1868 with Hendon station on the Midland Main Line, followed by the London Underground further east under the name ...
Memorial to 601 Squadron at RAF Museum Hendon. Sqn Ldr Roger Bushell – took part in the Great Escape; Sqn Ldr Gordon "Mouse" Cleaver DFC – Battle of Britain pilot whose accident aided the development of artificial optical lenses. Flt Lt Carl Davis DFC – American who flew with 601 Sqn during the Battle of Britain
The Bristol Bloodhound is a British ramjet powered surface-to-air missile developed during the 1950s. It served as the UK's main air defence weapon into the 1990s and was in large-scale service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the forces of four other countries.