Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Explained

Tangmere Military Aviation Museum
Map Type:	West Sussex
Location:	Tangmere, West Sussex
Type:	Aviation museum

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.^[1] Many aerospace exhibits covering the First World War to the Cold War are on display including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and aircraft engines.

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.^{[2] [3]}

Piston engine aircraft

• Hawker Hurricane – replica^[4]
• Supermarine Spitfire K5054 – replica^[5]
• Westland Lysander – replica^[6]

Jet aircraft

• de Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.2 XJ580^[7]
• de Havilland Vampire T.11 XH313^[8]
• English Electric Lightning F.53 ZF578^[9]
• Gloster Meteor F.4 EE549^[10]
• Gloster Meteor F.8 WA829/WA984^[11]
• Hawker Hunter F.3 WB188^[12]
• Hawker Hunter F.5 WP190^[13]
• Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 XV744^[14]
• McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.2 XV408^[15]
• Supermarine Swift FR.5 WK281^[16]

Aircraft cockpits

• de Havilland Canada Chipmunk T.10 WZ876^[17]
• English Electric Canberra B.2 WE113^[18]
• Hawker Hunter F.4 WV332^[19]
• Percival Provost T.1 XF840^[20]
• Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5A – replica^[21]
• Supermarine Spitfire IX – under construction^[22]

Helicopters

• Westland Wessex HU.5 XS511^[23]

Simulators

• Air Combat Simulator^[24]
• English Electric Lightning^[25]
• Red Simulators^[26]

Aircraft engines

Piston engines

• Rolls-Royce Griffon

Gas turbine engines

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

See also

• List of aerospace museums

References

Bibliography

• Ellis, Ken. Wrecks and Relics - 19th Edition, Midland Publishing, Hinckley, Leicestershire. 2004.

External links

• Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

Notes and References

1. Web site: About Tangmere . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 25 September 2020.
2. Ellis 2004, pp. 215-216.
3. Web site: Merston Hall . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
4. Web site: Hawker Hurricane Mk 1 . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
5. Web site: Prototype Spitfire . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
6. Web site: Westland Lysander Mk III (SD) . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
7. Web site: De Havilland Sea Vixen FAW2 . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
8. Web site: De Havilland Vampire T11 . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
9. Web site: English Electric Lightning F53 . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
10. Web site: Gloster Meteor F4 . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
11. Web site: Gloster Meteor F8 . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
12. Web site: Hawker Hunter Mk3 . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
13. Web site: Hawker Hunter Mk 5 . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
14. Web site: Hawker-Siddeley Harrier GR3 . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
15. Web site: McDonnell Douglas Phantom . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
16. Web site: Supermarine Swift FR5 | WK281 . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
17. Web site: De Havilland Chipmunk Cockpit . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
18. Web site: Canberra B2 Cockpit . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
19. Web site: Hawker Hunter F4 Cockpit . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
20. Web site: Percival Provost Cockpit . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
21. Web site: SE5a Cockpit Replica . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
22. Web site: Museum’s Spitfire Replica Cockpit . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 25 September 2020 . December 2014.
23. Web site: Westland Wessex Helicopter . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 28 July 2020.
24. Web site: Combat Simulator . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 23 September 2020.
25. Web site: Lightning Simulator . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 23 September 2020.
26. Web site: Red Flight Simulators . Tangmere Military Aviation Museum . 23 September 2020.