Wings Museum

Wings Museum

Wings Museum entrance on Brantridge Lane
Location Balcombe, West Sussex
Type Aviation museum
Website http://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/

The Wings Museum is an aviation museum located in Sussex, United Kingdom. It is housed in a 12,000 sq ft hanger-like former farm building in Brantridge Lane, between Handcross and Balcombe. The museum displays mainly World War II-related flying memorabilia and equipment which have been donated,[1][2] or which have been recovered and restored by volunteers.[3]

History

The museum was originally located at Redhill Aerodrome.[4] By 2011 it had relocated to Brantridge Lane.[5]

In 2013, the museum hosted a fundraiser for the upkeep of the Bomber Command Memorial in nearby Green Park.[6][7]

In 2015, volunteers restored a Bristol Beaufighter Mk1f which had crashed 75 years earlier.[8]

Aircraft on display

Visitors to the museum can walk inside a complete fuselage from a Douglas C-47 Dakota which was used on D-Day[9] and later during the filming of the television series Band of Brothers. [10]

There are some very rare aircraft from World War II and some of them are the only ones of their type in the UK.

Piston engine aircraft

Aircraft cockpits

Simulators

Piston engines

See also

References

  1. "War hero’s memorabilia donated to Wings Museum in Balcombe". 26 April 2014
  2. Chris Ransted (19 September 2013). Disarming Hitlerês V Weapons: Bomb Disposal, the V1 and V2 rockets. Pen and Sword. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-1-4738-2967-1.
  3. "More Details Emerge About Wartime Military Aircraft Crash". The Guilford Dragon.
  4. "Wartime bomb discovered at Woodhatch pub to be displayed in museum". Surrey Mirror April 17, 2016
  5. Alexis Catsambis; Ben Ford; Donny L. Hamilton (8 September 2011). The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology. OUP USA. pp. 1002–. ISBN 978-0-19-537517-6.
  6. "VIDEO: Bomber Command veterans raise hundreds for Green Park memorial". Mid Sussex Times, 10 April 2013.
  7. "Wings reunion for Bomber Boys". ITV News, 9 April 2013
  8. "Nostalgia: Remembering Second World War fighter pilots killed in crash". Surrey Mirror, November 01, 2015.
  9. John Grehan; Martin Mace (2012). Battleground Sussex. Casemate Publishers. pp. 198–. ISBN 978-1-84884-661-6.
  10. "Tyre from a wartime bomber surfaces after 74 watery years". Mid Sussex Times, 8 March 2014
  11. "The Wings Museum’s Bell P-63C Kingcobra Restoration".Warbirds News, November 1, 2013
  12. Gordon Riley (19 October 2015). Hawker Hurricane Survivors. Grub Street Publishing. pp. 97–. ISBN 978-1-910690-79-6.
  13. "BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER NEWS". AirSoc, 31 Aug 2015

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