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Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

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Established
  
1982

Type
  
Aviation museum

Phone
  
+44 1243 790090

Location
  
Tangmere, West Sussex

Opened
  
1982

Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

Address
  
Gamecock Terrace, Tangmere, Chichester PO20 2ES, UK

Hours
  
Open today · 10AM–5PMSunday10AM–5PMMonday10AM–5PMTuesday10AM–5PMWednesday10AM–5PMThursday10AM–5PMFriday10AM–5PMSaturday10AM–5PMSuggest an edit

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The Tangmere Military Aviation Museum is a museum located on the former site of RAF Tangmere, West Sussex. The museum was opened in June 1982. Many aerospace exhibits covering the First World War to the Cold War are on display including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and aircraft engines.

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Tangmere military aviation museum a flying visit


Aircraft on display

The museum aircraft are housed in two hangars with a small number on display externally. Several exhibits are on loan from the Royal Air Force Museum including the Hawker Hunter used by Neville Duke to break the airspeed record in 1953.

Piston engine aircraft

  • Supermarine Spitfire prototype replica, K5054
  • Hawker Hurricane replica
  • Jet aircraft

  • British Aerospace Sea Harrier
  • de Havilland Sea Vixen
  • de Havilland Vampire
  • English Electric Lightning
  • Gloster Meteor F.4
  • Gloster Meteor F.8
  • Hawker Hunter F.4
  • Hawker Hunter F.5
  • Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3
  • Lockheed T-33A
  • McDonnell Douglas F-4M (FGR.2) Phantom
  • Supermarine Swift
  • Aircraft cockpits

  • SE5A Replica
  • Hawker Hunter
  • English Electric Canberra B2
  • Piston Provost (in preparation)
  • Supermarine Spitfire (under construction)
  • Helicopters

  • Westland Wessex
  • Simulators

  • English Electric Lightning (Adults only)
  • Air Combat Simulator (Children only
  • Red Simulators (all ages)
  • Piston engines

  • Rolls-Royce Griffon
  • Gas turbine engines

  • Rolls-Royce Derwent
  • Rolls-Royce Nene
  • Rolls-Royce Palouste
  • References

    Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Wikipedia