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Museum sections
The museum exhibits are arranged in a number of sections.
These can be visited in any order as desired.
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The 446 BG building contains memorabilia from the
longest-term resident of the Flixton airfield close
by, including aircraft components and equipment,
uniforms, personal effects and digitised images. A
recent addition is a collection of U.S.
personnel-inscribed bricks from a wall of the old
Ditchingham Maltings (recently demolished), which
was the base (Q104) of 2212 Quartermaster Truck
Company Aviation USAAF in 1944.
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The building contains large
components from a 9 Squadron Wellington bomber,
recovered from its crash site, a mock-up Lancaster
forward fuselage used in the film "Dambusters", plus
numerous and impressive displays of aircraft instruments
and equipment, uniforms, personal effects, and model
aircraft.
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This building contains pictures and models of
aircraft that served in Coastal Command, plus a large
collection of high-speed launch models, uniforms and
equipment used by the RAF Air-Sea Rescue service, along
with a large display of photographic images.
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External exhibits
Most of the larger aircraft are displayed outdoors,
and include several early RAF and Royal Navy jets,
V-Bomber cockpits, and foreign aircraft (such as MiG-15
and Pucara), plus relics recovered from the sea and
“digs”.
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This contains two working Link
Trainers, a static example and another modified to take
a computer based MS Flight Simulator system, plus a
wheelchair-accessible flightdeck with MS Flight
Simulator system. Also in the area is a large
collection of valves, gun sights, models, two target
drones, cut-away components, pictures and signs from RAF
Coltishall and RAF Marham, plus a Virtual Radar system.
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Hangar 1
This extended Blister Hangar is
home to fighter aircraft such as the EE Lightning, Sea
Harrier, and Spitfire, plus Piston Provost and Vampire
training aircraft, early gliders, several microlights, a
large amount of Luftwaffe “wreckology”, ejector seat and
aircraft engine displays, several model aircraft
collections, and our popular “NAAFI” for light
refreshments. Fundraising Bricabrac & Collectors’ sales
stalls are nearby. There are numerous station boards to
be seen, plus a gallery of oil paintings of aircraft by
local member John Constable Reeve.
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Boulton & Paul hangar
This Boulton & Paul Hangar of
1937 includes examples of Whirlwind, Widgeon and
Sycamore helicopters, a U.S. Civil Air Patrol Fairchild
F.24 of WWII, the nose of a WWI Felixstowe F5 flying
boat and a 5/8ths scale replica Fokker D.VIII German WWI
fighter, several early gliders including a replica
Colditz Cock, an Avro Anson, Luton Major and Flying
Flea, the unique Goldfinch Amphibian, a large collection
of radio equipment, plus photographs of Boulton & Paul
aircraft. There are extensive cabinet displays,
including Civil Air Patrol, Berlin Airlift, Airborne
Forces and other uniforms and equipment. An
extension forms a workshop, with restoration projects on
view.
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Built in honour of our President
from 1976-2013, the Ken Wallis Hall contains our
Stearman, two autogyros and more microlights, an
RAF Airborne Lifeboat, plus several military vehicles
including a 1942 Morris Armoured Reconnaissance Car in a
RAF Regiment markings. A Redifon Simulator is under
restoration.
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Near to the 446 BG building there are three
memorials: one to 446 BG personnel, another to 2nd Air
Division USAAF personnel, and a metal statue in memory
of British and Allied pilots lost in WWII. The area is
fronted by a small memorial garden. A marble memorial
dedicated to 446 BG personnel is also to be found on the
edge of the airfield beyond Flixton village - very
little survives of the airfield infrastructure, which
was also home to units of the Fleet Air Arm (briefly)
and RAF.
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Rooms behind the shop
There are five display areas
behind the well-stocked shop which contain a very wide
variety of exhibits including an Anderson Shelter, 1940s
cottage interior, a 1960s modeller’s room, exhibitions
on RAF Decoy Crews and sites used in World War II, Civil
Defence and the Home Front, plus WWI exhibits, airborne
weapons, model aircraft, a display of airscrews
(propellers), uniforms and personal effects.
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The Royal Observer Corps
building contains a mock-up underground control
room/bunker, examples of ROC equipment and uniforms, and
other memorabilia.
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