The Bournemouth Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located next to Bournemouth International Airport, near the village of Hurn in Christchurch, England. It houses a number of aircraft, aero engines, cockpits, and a limited number of ground vehicles.
History The museum was founded in May 1998 as the Jet Heritage Museum and was located on the property of Bournemouth Airport. However, the following year it was renamed Bournemouth Aviation Museum. Then, due to expansion of the airport, in 2008 the museum was forced to move to a site near the Adventure Wonderland theme park on the south side of the B3073 road.
In 2013, the museum acquired a Boeing 737-200 named "The Spirit of Peter Bath" and has created an exhibition about Sir Peter Bath and his company Bath Travel inside the fuselage.
Collection Aircraft on display
Avro Vulcan B.2 (MRR) XH537 – Nose section only BAC One-Eleven ZE432 – Forward fuselage only British Aerospace 125 ZD620 British Aerospace Jetstream 31 640 – Nose section only Boeing 737-200 21135 BAC Jet Provost T.5A XW310 CMC Leopard 001 Colomban Cri-Cri 12-0135 de Havilland Vampire T.11 XE856 English Electric Canberra PR.7 WT532 – Nose section only English Electric Lightning F.53 ZF582 – Nose section only Gloster Meteor NF.14 WS776 Grumman American AA-1B 0245 Grumman AA-5 Tiger 0979 Handley Page Herald 175 – Forward fuselage only Handley Page Victor K.2 XL164 – Nose section only Hawker Hunter F.6 XG160 Hunting Jet Provost T.3 XM404 North American Harvard IIB Composite Percival Provost T.1 WW450/WW421 Radioplane Shelduck D.1 XR346/XV383/XW578 SEPECAT Jaguar GR.1 XX763 Vickers Vanguard – Nose section only Vickers Viscount 263 – Nose section only Westland Wasp HAS.1 XT431 Westland Wessex HAS.3 XT257
Engines on display
Bristol Siddeley Orpheus Daimler-Benz DB 601 Junkers Jumo 211 Rolls-Royce Avon Rolls-Royce Griffon Rolls-Royce Nene Rolls-Royce Viper
See also Bournemouth Air Festival List of aerospace museums
References
External links
Official website