Collection: Aircraft
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R1
The Nimrod maritime reconnaissance aircraft was derived from the Comet airliner. It originally entered RAF service in 1969 in MR1 variant to replace the Avro Shackleton. From …
Messerschmitt BF109G-2/Trop
The Bf 109, designed by Willi Messerschmitt, is a legend alongside the British Spitfire, American P51 Mustang and the Japanese Zero. First flown in 1935, the Bf109 …
Hawker-Siddeley Kestrel FGA.1
Hawker had been privately developing a vertical take off aircraft since the 1950s under the code of P.1127. The success of this private venture, and the subsequent …
British Aerospace Experimental Aircraft Programme (EAP)
Sopwith Dolphin 5FI
The world’s first single seat multi-gun fighter the Dolphin represented a departure from traditional Sopwith fighter design. In place of the rotary engines so characteristic of the …
Avro York C1
Manufactured by Avro and incorporating the wings, tail, undercarriage and engines of the Lancaster bomber, the York was to prove a useful military and civilian transport aircraft …
Caudron G3
The Caudron G3 first appeared in France in May 1914 but saw no British military service before World War One began. During the early months of war …
English Electric Canberra PR9
With the Canberra already established as a light bomber in the Royal Air Force, it was a logical step to produce a photo-reconnaissance version of this high …
Handley Page Victor K2 (Nose Section)
Designed and in service as a strategic nuclear bomber, some were converted to in-flight refuelling tankers and remained in service until 1993. Much use was made of …
Heinkel He111H-20
The Heinkel He111 provided the Luftwaffe with a fast, manoeuvrable medium bomber which it used as a spearhead for the Blitzkrieg tactics so successfully employed during the …
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis
The MiG-15 was extremely simple although advanced in concept. It had a better rate of climb, ceiling and high-altitude radius of turn than any Allied jet aircraft …
Slingsby Cadet TX3
The traditionally built wood-and-fabric Slingsby Cadet was an excellent glider, produced in large numbers for Air Training Corps use. 131 of the TX Mk 3 variant were …
Westland Wessex HC2
Produced as a turbine-powered development of the American Sikorsky S-58, the initial British production version was the Wessex HAS Mk 1 for the Royal Navy, entering service …
Blackburn Buccaneer S1 (Nose section only)
The sturdily built nuclear-capable Buccaneer originated as the Fleet Air Arms’ principal latter-day low-level strike aircraft. First flown April 1958, the Buccaneer S Mk 1 entered Fleet …