Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

Established	1982
Location	Tangmere, West Sussex
Type	Aviation museum
Website	http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/

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.^[1] Many aerospace exhibits covering the First World War to the Cold War are on display including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and aircraft engines.

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.^[2]^[3]

Piston engine aircraft

Jet aircraft

de Havilland Sea Vixen

Aircraft cockpits

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

Helicopters

Simulators

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

Aircraft engines

Rolls-Royce Derwent on display

Piston engines

Rolls-Royce Griffon

Gas turbine engines

References

Notes

↑ www.tangmere-museum.org.uk - Museum history Retrieved: 13 August 2012
↑ Ellis 2004, pp. 215-216.
↑ www.tangmere-museum.org.uk - Merston hall Retrieved: 13 August 2012

Bibliography

Ellis, Ken. Wrecks and Relics - 19th Edition, Midland Publishing, Hinckley, Leicestershire. 2004. ISBN 1 85780 183 0

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Coordinates: 50°50′48″N 0°42′53″W / 50.8467°N 0.7147°W / 50.8467; -0.7147

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