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What's Here:
The modern-day Headcorn airfield has grown from the former wartime Lashenden Advanced Landing Ground. The museum presents wartime Lashenden and aviation in Kent, including parts from a large number of aircraft wrecks.
Location:
At Headcorn Aerodrome, nine miles south of Maidstone on the A274 in Kent. See this location on Microsoft Live Search Maps
Opening Hours:
Open Sundays and Bank Holidays 10.30 am to 6.00 pm, Easter to October 31st; Sundays 10.30 am to 3.30 pm, November to Easter.
Admission:
Free but donations to RAF charities welcomed.
Amenities:
Toilets, Parking, Cafe, Souvenir shop, picnic area.
Contacts:
Lashenden Air Warfare Museum, Headcorn Aerodrome, Ashford, Kent, TN27 9HX. Tel: 01622 890226, Tel/Fax: 01622 631799, e-mail: lashendenairwar@aol.com, website: Lashenden Air Warfare Museum.
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| View of the museum building and F-100F (photo, Keith Mason) |
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List of Aircraft Exhibits:
| Identity | Type (Real Identity) |
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| ZF587 | BAC Lightning F.53 (nose) |
| WZ450 | DH.115 Vampire T.11* |
| - | Fieseler Fi 103R-4 'V-1' [BAPC.91] ## |
| 100549 | Focke-Achgelis Fa 330A-1 |
## moved to Germany for restoration - will return in 2009.
Notes: Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 XN380 has now moved to RAF Manston, Vampire T.11 WZ589 has moved to Rochester, Kent. North American F-100F Super Sabre 63938 has been scrapped after being hit by a taxying aircraft and seriously damaged. Dassault Mystere IVA 84 has been returned to the National Museum of the USAF.
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| F-100F 63938 (photo, Keith Mason) | Mystere IVA 84 (photo, Keith Mason) |
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