FlyPast 03.2018

FLYPAST MUSEUM GUIDE 2018 21

Location and contact info
Address Barford Road, Hardwick, Norwich NR15 2PP
Telephone 01508 531405
Website http://www.93rd-bg-museum.org

Admission info
Times May to October – third Sunday of the month 10.00-
17.00hrs
Prices Free

Aircraft exhibits
Auster AOP9 XK418 R

100TH BOMB GROUP MEMORIAL
MUSEUM
Displays in the control tower and other buildings
on the former airfield at Thorpe Abbotts
remembering the ‘Bloody Hundredth’ in World
Wa r Two.

Location and contact info
Address Common Road, Dickleburgh, Norfolk IP21 4PH
Telephone 0 1379 74 0708
Website http://www.100bgmus.org.uk

Admission info
Times First weekend in March to last weekend in
October – Saturday-Sunday and Bank Holidays,
10.00-17.00hrs
May to September – Wednesdays, 10.00-17.00hrs
Prices Free

CITY OF NORWICH AVIATION
MUSEUM
Sited on the north side of Norwich International
Airport, formerly RAF Horsham St Faith, the
CNAM includes in its collection several aircraft
with connections to RAF operations in East Anglia

• and indeed the airfield itself.

Location and contact info
Address Old Norwich Road, Horsham St Faith, Norfolk NR10
3JF (note no access from the airport; access via
Horsham St Faith village only)
Telephone 01603 893080
Website http://www.cnam.org.uk

Admission info
Times April 1 to October 31 – Tuesday-Saturday 10.00-
17.00hrs, Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays
12.00-17.00hrs
November 1-March 31 – Wednesday and Saturday
10.00-16.00hrs, Sunday and Bank Holiday
Mondays 11.00-15.00hrs
Prices Adults £4.50, concessions £4, children (8-16)
£2.30, under 8s free, family (two adults and up to
three children) £13.50

Aircraft exhibits
Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF11
(nose) WM267 S
Avro Vulcan B2 XM612 S
Cessna 401A G-OVNE S
Dassault Mystère IVA 121 S
English Electric Canberra B15 (nose) WH984 S
English Electric Canberra T17 (nose) WJ633 S
English Electric Lightning F53 53-686/ZF592 S
Evans VP-2 Volksplane G-BTAZ S
Fokker F27-200 Friendship G-BCDN S
Fokker F27-600P Friendship G-BHMY S
Gloster Meteor F8 WK654 S

Handley Page Herald 211 G-ASKK S

Hawker Hunter F6A ‘XG168’ S

Hawker Hunter F6A (cockpit) XE612 S

Hawker Hunter F51 ‘XE683’ S

Hawker Hunter T7 (cockpit) XL564 S

Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S1

(nose) XN967 S

Hawker Siddeley Harrier T4N XW268 R

Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 XV255 S

Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star 51-6718 S

McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR2

(nose) XV426 S

SEPECAT Jaguar GR1A XX109 S

SEPECAT Jaguar GR1A (nose) XZ375 S

SEPECAT Jaguar T2A (nose) XX830 S

SOCATA MS880B Rallye Club G-ASAT S

Supermarine Scimitar

(cockpit simulator) - S

Supermarine Spitfi re

(cockpit replica) - S

Westland Whirlwind I

(cockpit replica) - S

Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XP355 S

LANGHAM DOME

Highly acclaimed since it opened in summer 2014,

the museum is based in the former RAF Langham

training dome used to instruct anti-aircraft

gunners.

Location and contact info

Address Cockthorpe Road, Langham, Holt, Norfolk NR25

7BP

Telephone 01328 830169

Website http://www.langhamdome.org

Admission info

Times April, May and June – Thursday, Sunday and Bank

Holiday Mondays 10.30-16.00hrs

July – Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday 10.30-

16.00hrs

August – Tuesday-Thursday, Sunday and Bank

Holiday Monday 10.30-16.00hrs

September and October – Thursday and Sunday

10.30-16.00hrs

Prices Adults £5, children (16 and under) free

RAF MARHAM AVIATION

HERITAGE CENTRE

Located in a former church next to the main gate

of what remains one of the RAF’s busiest flying

stations.

Location and contact info

Address RAF Marham, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE33 9NP

Telephone 07717 426961

Website http://www.marhamhub.co.uk/heritage-centre.html

Admission info

Times Tuesday-Wednesday 09.30-16.00hrs, last

Saturday of each month 09.30-16.00hrs

Prices Free

Aircraft exhibits

Vickers Valiant B(K)1 cockpit XD857 R

MUCKLEBURGH MILITARY

COLLECTION

A fine collection of military vehicles on the North

Norfolk coast is augmented by some aircraft

exhibits.

Location and contact info

Address Weybourne Camp, Weybourne, Norfolk NR25 7EH

Telephone 01263 588210

Website http://www.muckleburgh.co.uk

Admission info

Times 9 February to end of October – daily 10.00-

17.00hrs

Prices Adults £11, children £7, under 4s free

Aircraft exhibits

BAE Systems Phoenix ZJ385 S

Fieseler Fi 103 (V1) (replica) - S

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR3 XZ968 S

Northrop Shelduck D1 ‘XT581’ (composite) S

NEW FARM AVIATION HERITAGE

GROUP

This collection is housed in five rooms plus a

barn conversion. It includes a huge array of

memorabilia, and pieces recovered from crash

sites, not least that of B-24H Belle of Boston.

Location and contact info

Address 10 Buxton Road, Frettenham, Norfolk NR12 7NG

Website sites.google.com/site/nfaviationheritagegroup/

home

Admission info

Times March to December – second Sunday in the

month, 10.00-16.00hrs

Prices Free

RAF AIR DEFENCE RADAR

MUSEUM

RAF Neatishead in North Norfolk is the UK’s

longest continuously operating radar site. This

museum’s numerous rooms tell the story of radar

through the eras.

Location and contact info

Address RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, nr RRH

Neatishead, Horning, Norfolk NR12 8YB

Telephone 01692 631485

Website http://www.radarmuseum.co.uk

Admission info

Times March 24 to November 10 – Tuesday-Thursday,

Saturday and Bank Holiday Mondays 10.00-

17.00hrs

Prices Adults £10, over 60s £9, students and children

(6-16) £5, under 6s free, family (two adults and up

to three children) £25

Aircraft exhibits

Handley Page Victor

cockpit simulator - S

Panavia Tornado F3 (nose) ZE936 S

SEPECAT Jaguar GR1A (nose) XX979 S

RAF BIRCHAM NEWTON

HERITAGE CENTRE

The centre tells the story of this former bomber

and World War Two Coastal Command station,

which became the RAF’s School of Administration

in the post-war period.

Location and contact info

Address National Construction College, Bircham Newton,

Norfolk PE31 6RH

Website http://www.rafbnmp.org.uk