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| Fury nose (photo, Andy Inman) |
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What's Here:
Established in 1999 from the former Classic Jets Museum, this expanding museum houses a range of flying and static airframes from the 1950s and 1960s. The museum owns the last surviving airworthy de Havilland Sea Vixen. A viewing gallery in the museum allows views of the activity in the de Havilland Aviation hangar.
Location:
At Bournemouth International Airport, Hurn, west of the A338, north of Bournemouth in Dorset. See this location on Microsoft Live Search Maps
Opening Hours:
This museum closed permanently on 16 December 2007.
Admission:
N/A
Amenities:
Toilets, Parking, Cafe, Souvenir shop.
Contacts:
Bournemouth Aviation Museum, Hangar 600, Bournemouth International Airport, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 6SE. Tel: 01202 580858. e-mail: baman@onetel.com, Official Website
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| Buccaneer S.2B XX897 (photo, Andy Inman) | Note the Tornado F.3 nose cone on this aircraft (photo, Andy Inman) |
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| Sea Prince T.1 N7SY (photo, Andy Inman) | Rear view of Sea Prince (photo, Andy Inman) |
List of Aircraft Exhibits:
| Identity | Type [Real Identity] |
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| XH537 | Avro Vulcan B.2MRR (nose) |
| G-BWOF | BAC Jet Provost T.5 [XW291] |
| G-AVMN | BAC 1-11 srs 510 |
| G-AZMF | BAC 1-11 srs 530 |
| G-CPTW | Bell 206 JetRanger %% |
| - | Bleriot XI (1/2 scale repro) |
| G-BKRL | Chichester-Miles Leopard |
| G-BRNM | Chichester-Miles Leopard** |
| G-AGSH | D.H.89 Dragon Rapide 6 |
| XP924/G-CVIX | D.H.110 Sea Vixen D.3* |
| WZ507/G-VTII | D.H.115 Vampire T.11* |
| XE856 | D.H.115 Vampire T.11 [G-DUSK]& |
| XH328 | D.H.115 Vampire T.11 (wings only) |
| 'XJ771'/G-HELV | D.H.115 Vampire T.55 [U-1215] |
| 'WR421' | D.H. Venom FB.50 |
| WT532 | EE Canberra PR.7 (nose) |
| ZF582 | EE Lightning F.53 (nose) |
| C-552/G-DORN | EKW C-3605 |
| G-BXFD | Enstrom 280 |
| XR537/G-NATY | Folland Gnat T.1 |
| WM167 | Gloster Meteor TT.20 [G-LOSM] |
| WS776 | Gloster Meteor NF.14 |
| G-BEYF | Handley Page Herald 401 |
| '361' | Hawker Fury ISS |
| XG160/G-BWAF | Hawker Hunter F.6A |
| J-4083 | Hawker Hunter F.58 |
| - | Hawker Hunter T.7/F.6 composite [ET-272] |
| G-HVIP | Hawker Hunter T.68 [J-4208] |
| G-CBEL | Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 |
| XK527 | HS Buccaneer S.2B (nose) |
| XX897 | HS Buccaneer S.2B $ |
| 'K5673' | Isaac's Fury III [G-BZAS] |
| 1211 | Mikoyan-Gurevitch MiG-17F/SBLim-5 [G-MIGG] |
| KF488 | North American Harvard IIB (reconstruction) |
| WV740 | Percival Pembroke C.1 [G-BNPH] ££ |
| WW421 | Percival Provost T.1 [G-BZRE] ## |
| G-BTUR | Piper PA-18 Super Cub 95 |
| G-CHYL | Robinson R-22B %% |
| G-RHCB | Schweizer 269C %% |
| WZ798 | Slingsby Grasshopper TX.1 |
| RT486 | Taylorcraft Auster AOP.5 [G-AJGJ] |
| - | Vickers Vanguard (cockpit) |
| G-OPAS | Vickers Viscount 806 (cockpit) |
| XT257 | Westland Wessex HAS.3 |
* This aircraft is airworthy.
& Owned by Dawn to Dusk Aviation - under restoration.
££ Airworthy resident - not owned by the museum.
%% Owned and operated by Bournemouth Helicopters Ltd.
** Housed in the museum but still undertakes development flying for Chichester-Miles.
$ XX897 is registered to 'Quicksilver' and only loaned to the museum.
## Composite airframe with WW450.
Notes: MiG-21PF 503/G-BRAM and Hunter F.51 E-402 have moved to the Farnborough Air Sciences Trust. D.H.104 Dove G-OPLC, HS.125-1B/522 G-ATPD and Northrop Shelduck D.1 XV383 are no longer listed on the official webite. Bell UH-1H Iroquois G-HUEY has been sold to a company at North Weald. Venom FB.50 G-GONE has moved to the Air Atlantique Classic Flight. Vampire T.11 XE920 [G-VMPR] has been sold in the USA. Sea Prince N7SY has been sold to a private owner.
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| Herald 401 G-BEYF (photo, Andy Inman) | BAC 1-11 G-AVMN (photo, Andy Inman) |
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| Venom FB.50 G-GONE (photo, Andy Inman) | Vampire T.11 (photo, Andy Inman) |
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| Rapide G-AGSH (photo, Andy Inman) | Rapide nose (photo, Andy Inman) |
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| Fury 'K5673' (photo, Andy Inman) | Fury and Rapide (photo, Andy Inman) |
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| Vampire T.55 'XJ771' (photo, Andy Inman) | Gnat T.1 XR537 (photo, Andy Inman) |
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| Meteor TT.20 WM167 (photo, Andy Inman) | Fury 'K5673' (photo, Andy Inman) |
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| Hunter T.68 G-HVIP (photo, Andy Inman) | Hunter left side (photo, Andy Inman) |
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| Jet Provost T.5 G-BWOF (photo, Andy Inman) | Vulcan B.2 XH537 Nose (photo, Andy Inman) |
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| Hunter F.51 E-402 (photo, Andy Inman) | Sea Vixen D.3 XP924 (photo, Andy Inman) |
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