Wings Museum
Aviation museum in Balcombe, West Sussex From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wings Museum is an aviation museum located in Sussex, United Kingdom. It is housed in a 12,000 square feet (1,100 m2) hangar-like former farm building in Brantridge Lane, between Handcross and Balcombe. The museum displays mainly World War II-related flying memorabilia and equipment which have been donated,[1][2] or which have been recovered and restored by volunteers.[3]
.jpg) Wings Museum entrance on Brantridge Lane | |
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| Location | Balcombe, West Sussex |
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| Coordinates | 51.0603°N 0.1684°W |
| Type | Aviation museum |
| Website | www |
The museum was originally located at Redhill Aerodrome.[4] By 2011 it had relocated to Brantridge Lane.[5]
In 2013, the museum hosted a fundraiser for the upkeep of the Bomber Command Memorial in nearby Green Park.[6][7]
In 2015, volunteers restored a Bristol Beaufighter Mk1f which had crashed 75 years earlier.[8]
Visitors to the museum can walk inside a complete fuselage from a Douglas C-47 Dakota which was used on D-Day[9] and later during the filming of the television series Band of Brothers.[10]
There are some very rare aircraft from World War II and some of them are the only ones of their type in the UK.
Turbine engine aircraft
- Hawker Siddeley Kestrel XS694 (under restoration and parts in storage)
Piston engine aircraft
- North American B-25J-25-NC 44-30861 (under restoration)
- Bell P-63 King cobra - 43-11137 (under restoration);[11] the museum has five more in storage
- Douglas A-20 Boston (displayed as found)
- Nakajima B5N2 Kate (very large fuselage and wing section)
- Douglas C-47 Dakota (fuselage from Band of Brothers)
- Hawker Hurricane (wreck)[12]
- Handley Page Hampden TB.1 P1273 (wreck)
Aircraft cockpits
- Douglas A-26 Invader 43-22649
- Bristol Beaufighter 1f[13]
- Curtis Helldiver SB2C-5 (in storage)
- Jet Provost XM486 (in storage)
- English Electric Canberra (in storage)
- De Havilland Chipmunk WD377
- North American B-25 Mitchell
Simulators
- Link trainer
Piston engines
- Rolls-Royce Merlin ×5 (one running as a living memorial)
- Junkers Jumo 211
- Daimler Benz 610
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