With it being the easter holidays, nice weather and a day off work, the girls and myself decided to have a visit to the RAF Museum at RAF Cosford near Wolverhampton. Not having visited the museum for a good many years I was looking forward to seeing what had changed. I booked the tickets on line which was free for all three of us and a cost of five pound for the car parking. When Booking there are options for making donations to help keep the museum running and no entrance fees in the furture.
On arrival the first change I noticed was a large play area outside the the main entrance which the children headed straight for. Entry to the museum was straight forward scan the barcode on the email you received at the desk and walk straight through.
Aircraft On Display:
XM497 Royal Air Force Bristol Britannia 312
L-866 Royal Danish Air Force Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina
XG225 Royal Air Force Hawker Hunter
XS709 Royal Air Force Hawker Dominie T1
XV249 Royal Air Force Hawker Nimrod
XV202 Royal Air Force Lockheed Hercules
204 Royal Netherlands Navy Lockheed SP-2H Neptune
XR808 Royal Air Force Vicker VC-10
XR220 Royal Air Force BAC TSR-2
XF926 Royal Air Force British Aerospace EAP
WG670 Royal Air Force English Electric P.1A
WG777 Royal Air Force Fairey Delta 2
WK935 Royal Air Force Gloster Meteor
XS695 Royal Air Force Hawker Kestrel
XN714 Royal Air Force Hunting H.126
XM351 Royal Air Force Hunting Jet Provost T.3
XD145 Royal Air Force Saunders-Roe SR.53
XX765 Royal Air Force Sepecat Jaguar ACT
WG768 Royal Air Force Shorts SB.5
RF398 Royal Air Force Avro Lincoln
ZG477 Royal Air Force BAe Harrier GR9
N1671 Boulton Paul Defiant 1
C4994 Royal Air Force Bristol M.1 (Replica)
TA639 Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquito
VP746 Air Ministry Fieseler Fi 156-C7 Storch
100503 Luftwaffe Focke Achgelis FA330
733685 Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf FW 190 A-8
K8042 Royal Air Force Gloster Gladiator
LF738 Royal Air Force Hawker Huricane
360043 Luftwaffe Junker JU88R-1
16336 Kawasaki Ki-100-1b
10639 luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me109G-2
191614 RAE Messerschmitt Me262A
420430 RAE Messerschmitt Me410A
5439 Allied Technology Mitsubishi Ki-46
N5182 Royal Naval Services Sopwith Pup
A8226 No45 Squadron Sopwith Strutter(Replica)
K9942 Royal Air Force Spitfire 1
WS843 Royal Air Force Armstrong Whitworth Meteor
TS798 Royal Air Force Avro York
XB812 Royal Air Force Canadair Sabre
KN645 Transport Command Douglas Dakota C.4
XH171 Royal Air Force English Electra Canberra
XG337 Royal Air Force Engligh Electra Lightning
74-0177 United States Air Force F-111
XA564 Royal Air Force Gloster Javelin
TG511 Royal Air Force Handley Page Hastings
XH672 Royal Air Force Handley Page Victor
XL568 Royal Air Force Hawker Hunter
XM598 Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan
1120 Polish Air Force Mikoyan MIG-15
503 Hugarian Air Force Mikoyan MIG-21
XL993 Royal Air Force Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
XR371 Royal Air Force Shorts Belfast
68-8284 United States Air Force Sikorshy MH-53J
XD818 Royal Air Force Vickers Valiant
XP411 Royal Air Force Armstrong Whitworth Argosy
WE600 Auster T7 Antartic
TX214 Royal Air Force Avro Anson
XW418 Royal Air Force BAC Jet Provost
WL732 Boulton Paul Sea Balliol
XJ918 Bristol Sycamore
G-AFAP Junkers JU-52
G-ACGL Comper CLA.7 Swift
WP912 Royal Air Force de Haviland Chipmunk
G-APAS BOAC de Haviland Comet
VP952 de Haviland Devon
G-AIZE Fairchild Argus
G-EBMB Hawker Cygnet
XS639 Royal AIr Force Hawker Siddeley Andover
XD674 Royal Air Force Jet Proost
WV746 Royal Air Force Hunting Pericval Pembroke
G-AEEH Mignet HM-14
XX654 Scottish Aviation Bulldog
XX496 Royal Air Force Jetstream T1
WL679 Vickers Varsity
G-AJOV Westland Dragonfly
XR525 Royal Air Force Westland Wessex
ZA718 Royal Air Force Boeing Chinook
All in all a lovely day out that didn't cost the earth. All the museum staff were very helpful and friendly. I would certainly recommend going to the museum, plenty to do and see to keep the children occupied, on leaving both my childrens asked when we're going back, coming from two girls that hate being dragged around places say alot..........
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