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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 .
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 ...
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
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 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:
London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF ...
RAF Northolt, Middlesex: 18 January 1927: 2 September 1939: RAF Hendon, Middlesex 2 September 1939: 30 December 1939: RAF Biggin Hill, Kent: 30 December 1939: 1 June 1940: RAF Tangmere, Sussex (Dets. at Merville and Saint-Valery-en-Caux, France) 1 June 1940: 17 June 1940: RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire: 17 June 1940: 19 August 1940: RAF Tangmere ...
Map of the wards of the Municipal Borough of Hendon in the 1950s. Edgware ward resembles the separate old parish it formerly constituted and continued to do so in the Church of England. The rest was all Hendon parish, the major administrative unit for its residents and ratepayers until the Urban District was formed.