Wellesbourne Wartime Museum
Key Facts
| Location: | Wellesbourne Mountford airfield, West Midlands |
| SatNav: | ? |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Date Opened: | ? |
| Aircraft Exhibits: | 7 |
What’s Here
The museum is located in an underground emergency wartime command and control bunker, and houses a collection of aviation artefacts. Displays cover the history of Wellesbourne Mountford airfield, together with various aircraft components and memorabilia. There is a small aircraft park, including the nose of Vulcan XA903. This aircraft was used to test the Olympus engines of Concorde in the 1960s, and a small dedicated group of enthusiasts is trying to restore some of the additional test equipment used in this aircraft. Elsewhere on the airfield, Vulcan XM655 undertakes taxi runs on occasions.
Directions
Located at Wellesbourne Mountford airfield, south of the B4086 near Wellesbourne, 5 miles east of Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. See this location on Microsoft Live Search Maps
Visiting
Opening Hours:
Open Sundays & Bank Holidays 10.00 am to 4.00 pm.
Admission:
No up-to-date information.
Amenities:
Toilets, Parking, Cafe, Access for the disabled.
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| Provost T.1 WV679. (photo, Olaf Kirchner) | Rear view of the Provost. (photo, Olaf Kirchner) |
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List of Aircraft Exhibits
| Displayed I.D. | Aircraft Type | Real Identity | Condition | Status |
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| XA903 | Avro Vulcan B.1 | XA903 | Nose | Displayed |
| XM655 | Avro Vulcan B.2* | XM655 | Complete | Displayed |
| XK590 | DH.115 Vampire T.11 | XK590 | Complete | Displayed |
| XJ575 | HS Sea Vixen FAW.2 | XJ575 | Nose | Displayed |
| - | McBroom Argus | - | Complete | Displayed |
| WV679 | Percival Provost T.1 | WV679 | Complete | Displayed |
| RA-01378 | Yakovlev Yak-52 | RA-01378 | Complete | Displayed |
* Owned by the XM655 Maintenance and Preservation Society.
More Information
Derek Powell, Wellesbourne Aviation Group, 167 Colebourne Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B13 0HB. Tel: Not known.
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| Vampire T.11 XK590. (photo, Olaf Kirchner) | Vampire avionics bay. (photo, Olaf Kirchner) |
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| Yak-52 RA-01378. (photo, Olaf Kirchner) | Vulcan B.1 cockpit. (photo, Olaf Kirchner) |
Tags: Museum, Wellesbourne Mountford, West Midlands
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27 March 2010 11:04 am | Last Updated 1 August 2010 9:10 am |
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By Gerry Binmore, 4 July 2010 @ 9:38 pm
What a great little place. Very welcoming bunch of chaps.
I think I went back in time a bit….. perhaps I’m getting old. A seriously knowledgeable bloke showed us the Vulcan nosejob. We called in on the off-chance and it was really interesting.
We passers-by appreciate the work put in by the “few”. No, not those “few”…the other”few” who still do strange things like trying to keep a Vulcan from taking off.
By Paul Denison, 23 August 2010 @ 6:35 pm
Have to say it is a fantastic museum and as has already been stated the welcome you recieve is second to none.
By Phil Hardaker, 23 November 2010 @ 11:09 pm
Echo the above. The handful of chaps here are volunteers and do it for the love of aviation, yet they should give a masterclass in customer service to the big businesses of the world.
Great little place and the aircraft aren`t even cordoned off, unlike most places nowadays.
By Brian Prickett, 12 December 2010 @ 5:59 pm
I am specifically interested in the nose portion of XA 903. I flew in this aircraft in the late 1950′s when it was used as an essential part in the Blue Steel stand-off bomb development programme (W100) and was the electronics officer (Observer B seat) for the first aerial launch of this missile into Cardigan Bay.( Happy days!)
By David Cooper, 6 January 2012 @ 2:21 pm
I was there between 1955-1957. As a storeman attached to 68MU, later moved to 16MU at Stafford in Staffodshire.
I think the hut we lived in was hut 27. There was Bob Marriot, Brian Whittle, Taffy, They were the days.
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