The Solway Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located at Carlisle Lake District Airport in Cumbria.Solway Aviation Museum Mapping Museum research project
About The Museum is run by The Solway Aviation Society and staffed by volunteers. The Society is a registered charity supported by entrance charges to the Museum, and public donations. In addition to normal opening the Museum hosts educational visits for school classes studying the Second World War and for Scouts achieving their Air Activities Badge. Following the closure of the RAF Millom Museum, many of the artefacts were moved to Solway Aviation Museum for safe keeping and eventual exhibition when space permits.
The Buildings contain exhibits and artefacts relating to aviation in Cumbria, including the Second World War and also houses individual displays featuring the development of the Blue Streak missile, Martin-Baker ejection seats, and the development and activities of the Airport itself since the Second World War.
History In April 2024, the museum raised enough money to move the only surviving Blackburn Beverly to the museum from Fort Paull. Seven months later, the museum received a Tornado GR1 which had been a gate guard at RAF Spadeadam.
Collection The current collection includes the following: Aircraft Serial Notes Avro Vulcan B.2 XJ823 Royal Air Force, it was flown into Carlisle Airport in January 1983, after the Falklands WarThe Avro Vulcan, Solway Aviation Museum BAC Jet Provost T.4 XS209 Royal Air Force, was used as a training airframe BAC Lightning F.53 ZF583 Former Royal Saudi Air Force painted in Royal Air Force markings. DH Vampire T.11 WZ515 Royal Air Force Fairey Gannet ECM.6 XA459 Gloster Meteor NF.14 WS832 Built by Armstrong Whitworth, last used at the Royal Aerospace Establishment Llandbedr, Wales English Electric Canberra T.4 WE188 Royal Air Force Hawker Hunter F.51 XG190 Former Royal Danish Air Force aircraft painted to represent an aircraft of the Empire Test Pilot's School McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.2 XV406 Royal Air Force, formerly a gate guard at 14 MU RAF Carlisle Panavia Tornado GR.1 Royal Navy Percival Sea Prince T.1 WP314 Royal Navy SEPECAT Jaguar T.4 XX146 Sikorsky Whirlwind HAR.21 WV198 Royal Navy
See also Carlisle Lake District Airport List of aerospace museums
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