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Bournemouth Aviation Museum

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Location
  
Hurn, Dorset

Phone
  
+44 1202 473141

Type
  
Aviation museum

Bournemouth Aviation Museum

Website
  
www.aviation-museum.co.uk

Address
  
B3073, Merritown Lane, Hurn, Christchurch BH23 6BA, UK

Hours
  
Open today · 10AM–4AMFriday10AM–4AMSaturday10AM–4AMSunday10AM–4AMMonday10AM–4AMTuesday10AM–4AMWednesday10AM–4AMThursday10AM–4AM

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Bournemouth aviation museum


The Bournemouth Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located next to Bournemouth International Airport, near the village of Hurn in Christchurch. It houses a number of aircraft, aero engines, cockpits and a double-decker bus. Unusually for such a museum, its policy is to have open cockpits and visitors are encouraged to climb into the cockpits and press knobs, turn dials, pull levers, flick switches, etc. Cockpits open in this manner include the Vulcan, Lightning and Canberra. It has a flight simulator which is free to use, operated from a mock up cockpit. The museum has recently restored a Boeing 737-200 named 'The Spirit of Peter Bath' and has created an exhibition about Sir Peter Bath and his company 'Bath Travel' inside the fuselage. It is believed that Bournemouth Aviation Museum is the only museum in Europe to include a 737-200 in its collection. Even more recently the museum has taken ownership of the forward fuselage of an ex Empire Test Pilots School BAC 1-11, quite apt considering the aircraft was built only a few hundred metres from where it rests now.

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Bournemouth aviation museum


Aircraft on display

The museum does not possess a hangar, the following aircraft and aero engines are displayed externally:

  • Avro Vulcan - Nose section only
  • BAC 1-11 - Forward Fuselage Only
  • Boeing 737-200
  • CMC Leopard
  • de Havilland Vampire
  • English Electric Canberra- Nose section only
  • English Electric Lightning - Nose section only
  • Gloster Meteor
  • Grumman AA-5 Tiger
  • Handley Page Victor - Nose section only
  • Hawker Hunter
  • North American Harvard
  • Percival Provost
  • Piper PA-28 Cherokee
  • Radioplane Shelduck
  • SEPECAT Jaguar
  • Vickers Vanguard - Nose section only
  • Vickers Viscount - Nose section only
  • Westland Wasp
  • Westland Wessex
  • Engines on display

  • Bristol Siddeley Orpheus
  • Daimler-Benz DB 601
  • Junkers Jumo 211
  • Rolls-Royce Avon
  • Rolls-Royce Griffon
  • Rolls-Royce Nene
  • Rolls-Royce Viper
  • References

    Bournemouth Aviation Museum Wikipedia