Aircraft / Cockpit Access

On most public days we will open various aircraft to the public via a ticket. These are priced at £7.50 for an individual, £10 for one adult and one child, £15 for a family of up to five. The list below is those that we can open to the public, details of what is accessible is with each entry.

Note that not all items will be open at once, and some may not be open certain days if not enough volunteers are available.

English Electric

Canberra

Model No:

PR.3 (cockpit recreation)

Registration No:

WE168

Access to cockpit

WE168 was scrapped in 1990 and the interior stripped of instruments and equipment. The salvaged items were bought by Flixton and a replica nose built to display them.

Fokker

Friendship

Model No:

F.27-200

Registration No:

G-BDVS

Access inside cockpit

This aircraft, G-BDVS, used to serve with Air Anglia then Air UK from Norwich, usually on the Norwich to Amsterdam route. The cockpit section is complete with most instruments.

Folland

Gnat

Model No:

T.1 (cockpit procedures trainer)

Registration No:

n/a

Our Gnat is a cockpit procedures trainer built by Boulton Paul to train pilots in the start up and emergency procedures. Do you think that you can start a cold war jet? This cockpit is on our aircraft tour and you can sit in the jet to get that authentic pilot experience.

English Electric

Lightning

Model No:

F.3

Registration No:

XP473

Sit in the cockpit and experience the RAFs frontline fighter from the 1950s until the 1990s
Access to the cockpit is via a stepped platform.

This aircraft, XP743 flew with several RAF Squadrons including 56 Squadron from RAF Wattisham in whose colopurs it is displayed. The cockpit section is almost complete and we are sourcing more instruments and controls regularly.

Hawker

Sea Hawk

Model No:

FGA.6

Registration No:

WV838

Sit in the cockpit of this naval jet fighter as part of our cockpit tours.
Access is via a small set of steps.

The Sea Hawk was used by the Fleet Air Arm in the early cold war period. Many similarities can be seen with Hawker’s later Hunter used by the RAF.

Hunting Percival

Sea Prince

Model No:

T.1

Registration No:

WF128

Access inside fuselage, cockpit viewed from fuselage only

Sea Prince WF128 was one of the Royal Navy’s dedicated multi-engine trainers, operated by the Fleet Air Arm in the post-war period. Assigned to Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose, 750 Squadron, WF128 served until retirement in 1976. Later used as a maintenance airframe at RAF Honnington, WF128 arrived at the museum in 1981.

Anderson

Shelter

Model No:

n/a

Registration No:

n/a

Access inside.
Experience the sounds of a bombing raid whilst huddled in the shelter.

Not an aircraft, but nonetheless closely related to the Air part of the Second World War. As part of the war preparations Anderson Shelters were built in gardens and houses all over the country.

Vickers

Valetta

Model No:

C.2

Registration No:

VX580

Access inside fuselage and cockpit

Built in Weybridge during 1950, VX580 saw service as a VIP transport based in Malta, Egypt and Cyprus. It was retired in 1968 and arrived at the museum in 1982.