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Newark Air Museum, Nottinghamshire

Visit 19th May 2016

A lovely day for walking round the outside exhibits and plenty to see inside. Two hangars and a few other buildings including a cafe and shop. Charge for entry. Free car park. Nicely presented museum about 40 years old but improving all the time.

 

English Electric Canberra. There are 6 Canberras. This one is numbered WH792 but is actually WH791. A photo reconnaissance PR7 version delivered by Short Brothers in 1954. It spent some time in Borneo and Singapore.

Canberra aircraft at Newark

English Electric Lightning trainer Type T5, XS417, first flown in 1964 and delivered to RAF Coningsby in 1965, ref www.lightning.org.uk.

Lightning fighter at Newark

Blackburn Buccaneer

Buccaneer aircraft at Newark

Avro Vulcan

Vulcan bomber at Newark

Vulcan cockpit tour, view from the navigator position

Vulcan Bomber cockpit tour at Newark

Vulcan navigator, radio operator console facing backwards

Vulcan cockpit tour at Newark

Tiger Moth skeleton

Tiger Moth framework at Newark

Swift

Swift fighter at Newark

Shackleton

Shackleton recconaissence at Newark

RAF Regiment

RAF Regiment display at Newark

 

View inside one of the hangars at Newark

Newark

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