C7CAT

August 2024

We went up to Curborough a day earlier to avoid the Friday traffic and visited Newark Air Museum in Coddrington, Derbyshire.
What an amazing place with many aircraft displayed outside, as well as three hangars with aircraft and other aviation-related exhibits.

SEPECAT Jaguar T2A XX829
English Electric Lightning T.5 XS417
Hawker Hunter T.7 XL605/XX467
Gloster Meteor NF.14 WS739
Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star TR-007
Cluster Bombs
de Havilland Canada Chipmunk T.10
Rocket Launchers
Cannons and Shells
Hunting Jet Provost JP T.3A
Blackburn Beverley Nosecone
Blackburn Beverley Cockpit
Surveillance Drone - The Observer Concept UAV
Scottish Aviation Bulldog T.1 XX634
Gloster Meteor F8 Prone Pilot WK935
Air-to-Air Missiles
Bomb Disposal Kit
Selection of Service Uniforms
Mikoyan-Gurevich MIG-27 "Flogger"
Mikoyan-Gurevich MIG-23ML "Flogger"
Fairey Gannet AEW.3
de Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.2
Royal Observer Post
Blackburn Buccaneer S.1 XN964
Anderson Air Raid Shelter
Lee Richard Annular Biplane (Replica)
BAPC No. 20
Ward Gnome
(It was, at the time, the smallest piloted aircraft)
Ejector Seats
LINK Trainer 1942 - The original flight simulator
Salvaged Lancaster parts
Bensen B.8M Gyrocopter G-ASNY
de Havilland Tiger Moth restoration
Avro Shackleton MR 3/3 WR977
in front of Handlay Page Hastings T.5 TG517
English Electric Canberra T.19 WH904
Yellow Sun - Britain's First H-Bomb
Westland Wessex Helicopter Mk.2 XV728
Anti-Aircraft Gun ZPU-4
Jindivik - Radio-Controlled Target Drone
Diagram of the Australian Jindivik Drone
Avro Vulcan B.2 XM594
alongside Blue Steel Air-to-Surface Missile
Lancaster parts from crash at Winthorpe in 1943
repaired at RAF Langar, flew again January 1944
The Red Barrows!

Newark Air Museum Guide Book
Only GBP 2.00, well worth buying, full of information on the exhibits