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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:
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 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)
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.
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 ...