World aviation museum and gate guard map

reddfoxx · April 23, 2025, 07:57:10 AM

Visited Las Vegas, dropped the Atomic Museum from the map because there are very few references to aviation, even in the airburst display room. Added the Clark County museum, because it has a small building dedicated to local airlines. And visited a gas station with two 152s and a Sundowner hanging from the ceiling.

Leading Observer · August 07, 2025, 04:03:01 AM

RAF Henlow Huber F1 faced an uncertain future when the Base closes next year - a campaign has been started to try and save ithttps://forms.gle/wLCWtsLThdBcybDA8?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExdVEyOEpMWUdjNHVSZzhwOQEexkmxkH7fegIBKng

PR19_Kit · August 07, 2025, 04:12:39 AM

Quote from: Leading Observer on August 07, 2025, 04:03:01 AMRAF Henlow Huber F1 faced an uncertain future when the Base closes next year - a campaign has been started to try and save ithttps://forms.gle/wLCWtsLThdBcybDA8?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExdVEyOEpMWUdjNHVSZzhwOQEexkmxkH7fegIBKng

While I'm wholly supportive of the campaign, WT612 can't be the world's '...oldest surviving Hunter.....' as the actual prototype, WB188, still exists and is at the Tangmere Museum. I saw it only last month!

Leading Observer · August 07, 2025, 04:21:24 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 07, 2025, 04:12:39 AM
Quote from: Leading Observer on August 07, 2025, 04:03:01 AMRAF Henlow Huber F1 faced an uncertain future when the Base closes next year - a campaign has been started to try and save ithttps://forms.gle/wLCWtsLThdBcybDA8?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExdVEyOEpMWUdjNHVSZzhwOQEexkmxkH7fegIBKng

While I'm wholly supportive of the campaign, WT612 can't be the world's '...oldest surviving Hunter.....' as the actual prototype, WB188, still exists and is at the Tangmere Museum. I saw it only last month!

I agree Kit - I think there may be an earlier F1 somewhere in Scotland as well

Leading Observer · August 07, 2025, 05:18:25 AM

This may explain claims about it being the oldest: https://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/hunter/survivor.php?id=18

PR19_Kit · August 07, 2025, 06:34:24 AM

The oldest GATE GUARD maybe, but not the oldest.

Rheged · August 24, 2025, 08:52:39 AM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39d2pymj12o

Another memorial, to the crew of a Halifax on a training flight, that crashed exactly 81 years ago. The memorial is reported as 200yards north of the parish hall in the village of Ripple, Worcestershire.

reddfoxx · August 24, 2025, 12:55:37 PM

Added, thanks!

reddfoxx · August 28, 2025, 05:31:52 PM

Numbers are actually down lately, as I've been going back through and making sure displays are still there. Many J-5s and J-6s in China have disappeared, presumably scrapped to make way for development. New sites trickle in, but not enough to replace those. A few new museums but a few closures. Total is now 16099 entries: 2162 museums, 2025 memorials and other miscellanea, 11912 display planes.

Nick · September 05, 2025, 04:09:56 AM

I'd like to add the Polish Airman's Memorial near Netherfield in East Sussex. Close to the junction of Battle Road and Penshurst Lane.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/VfBn9oXJ8CELSERD9

It commemorates the Polish crew of a Wellington bomber that crashed in 1941 at that location.

https://flic.kr/p/2rrtdoM

reddfoxx · September 05, 2025, 06:03:51 AM

Added and credited, thanks!

perttime · September 05, 2025, 12:30:59 PM

I noticed that the entry about the Fokker F27 just inside the Satakunnan Lennosto gate near the Tampere - Pirkkala airport says "On base, restricted access.".

It IS inside the fence but it is very much visible from outside. This is as close as Google Street View went:

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reddfoxx · September 05, 2025, 05:46:57 PM

Aha, thanks. I do try to add "visible from street" or something like that, and will in just a moment.

Nick · October 16, 2025, 03:26:44 AM

In the Derbyshire village of Middleton-by-Youlgreave is a memorial plaque to the crew of Wellington bomber BJ652. It crashed on a night navigation training flight in January 1944. All six RAAF crew were killed.
Facebook reminded me this morning that I walked past this back in 2017. It was a good day out in the country.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/h7mno9TNfs93mCTY9

https://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/crash_sites/peak-district/vickers-wellington-bj652-smerrill/

NARSES2 · October 16, 2025, 05:50:37 AM

Quote from: Nick on October 16, 2025, 03:26:44 AMIn the Derbyshire village of Middleton-by-Youlgreave is a memorial plaque to the crew of Wellington bomber BJ652. It crashed on a night navigation training flight in January 1944. All six RAAF crew were killed.
Facebook reminded me this morning that I walked past this back in 2017. It was a good day out in the country.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/h7mno9TNfs93mCTY9

https://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/crash_sites/peak-district/vickers-wellington-bj652-smerrill/

There are small memorials like that all over this country and you can end up walking past them without noticing sometimes