List of aircraft at the Royal Air Force Museum Midlands explained

This list of aircraft at the Royal Air Force Museum Midlands summarises the collection of aircraft that is housed at the Royal Air Force Museum Midlands.

Collection

External display

[1]

Type Identity Markings Notes
XM497 497 "Schedar" Former civil aircraft G-AOVF bought by the Museum in 1984 and
painted to represent XM497 of Royal Air Force Air Support Command
L-866 Royal Danish Air Force
XG225 No. 237 Squadron RAF
XF426
XS709 M No. 3 Flying Training School RAF
XV249 RAF Wyton 1974-1995
wears RAF Wyton station crest
No. 51 Squadron RAF
XM351 Y
XN714 RAE Bedford
XV202
204 V Royal Netherlands Navy
XD145 A&AEE, RPE Westcott
XX765 ACT Active Control Technology
XR808 95th Anniversary 1917-2012

Test Flight

[2]

Type Identity Markings Notes
XR220 One of two complete airframes remaining
N1671 EW-D No. 307 (Polish) Squadron RAF
Bristol M.1c replica C4994 No. 150 Squadron RAF
ZF534 EAP Experimental Aircraft Programme, BAe
WG777 Fairey Delta A&AEE
K8042
n/a
K4972 No. 2 Flying Training School RAF at RAF Brize Norton
LF738 Coded UH-A
XS695 5 RAE Bedford
10639 Black 6 Luftwaffe in North Africa
N5182 Royal Naval Air Service
Sopwith 1½ Strutter Replica A8226 No. 45 Squadron RFC
K9942 Coded SD-D No. 52 Operational Training Unit RAF

War in the Air

[3]

Type Identity Markings Notes
RF398 No. 151 Squadron RAF at RAF Watton
L8756 XD-E Restored as a Bristol Blenheim
TA639 AZ-E No. 3 Civilian Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF
Unit markings of Guy Gibson's last flight
in a Mosquito XX on 19 September 1944
T6296
VP746 SM + AK Air Ministry
733685 Luftwaffe "Mistel" combination aircraft
PR536 OQ-H Indian Air Force and RAF
360043 EV Luftwaffe - One of only two intact Ju-88s, captured with pilot Herbert Schmid,
when he landed at Aberdeen on 9 May 1943,
allowing nightfighter radar to be studied.
VK893 Yellow 4 Luftwaffe
420430 3U + CC RAE
MF628

National Cold War Exhibition

[4]

Type Identity Markings Notes
WS843 J No. 264 Squadron RAF
TS798 Union Jack
XB812 No. 93 Squadron RAF
KN645 Transport Command
XH171 U No. 39 Squadron RAF
XG337
74-0177 LN 177 United States Air Force - 492d Fighter Squadron, RAF Lakenheath
XA564
TG511 511
XH672 "Maid Marion" No. 55 Squadron RAF
XL568 No. 74 Squadron RAF
XM598 No. 44 Squadron RAF - Part of Operation Black Buck in 1982,
a cabin pressurization issue caused it to return to base,
it stayed in reserve for the remainder of the Falklands War.
1120 Polish Air Force
503 Hungarian Air Force
XL993
XR371 Enceladus 371 No. 53 Squadron RAF
68-8284 8284 United States Air Force
XD818 Part of No. 49 Squadron RAF and flown by Kenneth Hubbard at
Malden Island in the Pacific during Operation Grapple in 1957,
when it dropped the first British hydrogen bomb.[5]

Hangar 1

[6]

Type Identity Markings Notes
XP411 No. 6 Flying Training School RAF at RAF Finningley
TX214 Royal Air Force
Transport Command
Metropolitan Communication Squadron RAF at RAF Hendon
XZ997 Falklands Exhibition
ZA718 BN Bravo November
Falklands Exhibition
G-ACGL
WP912 used by the Duke of Edinburgh for flight training
Aberdeen University Air Squadron
G-APAS B.O.A.C
VP952 No. 207 Squadron RAF at RAF Northolt
G-AIZE United States Army Air Forces
G-EBMB
XS639 No. 32 Squadron RAF
XD674 Hunting Aircraft
WV746 No. 60 Squadron RAF at RAF Wildenrath
G-AEEH
T9708
wears T9707
WV562 P-C No. 1 Flying Training School RAF at RAF Syerston
XX654 3 Central Flying School at RAF Cranwell
XX496 No. 45 Squadron RAF
Supermarine Spitfire Replica RG904 Made for TV Programme
WL679 M Royal Aircraft Establishment
XR525 G No. 72 Squadron RAF

Previously on display

Type Identity Former location Markings/Notes
WE600 Hangar 1 1956 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition - to Midland Air Museum
WZ744 Test Flight Gifted to Avro Heritage Museum
XW418 Hangar 1
WL732 Hangar 1
XF926 Test Flight Company Test Aircraft
XJ918 Hangar 1 Gifted to the Ulster Aviation Society
WA346 Stored Gifted to the Hunter Fighter Collection New South Wales
J1704 War in the Air Swiss Air Force
WG760 Test Flight RAE
ZD485 (A-515) War in the Air Former Argentine Air Force
100503 War in the Air Luftwaffe then RAE Farnborough
XK724 War in the Air Gifted to the Midland Air Museum
WA634 Test Flight Gifted to the Ulster Aviation Society
WK935 Test Flight Institute of Aviation Medicine - to Newark Air Museum
G-AFAP Hangar 1 Gifted to Kent Battle of Britain Museum
16336 War in the Air Japanese
191614 War in the Air RAE
5439 War in the Air Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit, South East Asia
44-73415 War in the Air Gifted to the Hunter Fighter Collection in New South Wales
XX946 War in the Air
WG768 Test Flight ETPS
G-AJOV Hangar 1
n/a War in the Air RAE, RPRE Westcot

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: On Display - External Display. Royal Air Force Museum. 24 July 2022.
  2. Web site: On Display - Test Flight. Royal Air Force Museum. 24 July 2022.
  3. Web site: On Display - War in the Air. Royal Air Force Museum. 24 July 2022.
  4. Web site: On Display - National Cold War Exhibition. Royal Air Force Museum. 24 July 2022.
  5. Web site: Individual History Vickers Valiant B (K) Mk.I XD818/7894M Museum Accession Number 1994/1352/A . Royal Air Force Museum . 20 November 2015.
  6. Web site: On Display - Hangar 1. Royal Air Force Museum. 24 July 2022.