Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

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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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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

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Simulators

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

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Aircraft engines

Piston engines

  • Rolls-Royce Griffon

Gas turbine engines

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

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