Types you’ll see alongside
de Havilland Canada Chipmunk, de Havilland Mosquito, de Havilland Vampire, Westland Sea King, Westland Wessex.
Last verified 2026-10-11 against the gazetteer Compendium. Airframes move — confirm on museum pages before travel.
On charge
Where to see the Cierva C.30 / Avro Rota in the UK
The gazetteer records 4 Cierva C.30 / Avro Rota airframes (including cockpit sections and replicas where noted) across 4 UK collections, in 3 regions: London & Around, East of England, South West England.
| Museum | City | Region | Airframes recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| De Havilland Aircraft MuseumChecked 2026-10-08 | St Albans | London & Around | Cierva C.24 G-ABLM |
| IWM DuxfordChecked 2026-10-08 | Cambridge | East of England | Avro 671 Rota I HM580 |
| Royal Air Force Museum LondonChecked 2026-10-08 | London | London & Around | Avro Rota K4232 |
| The Helicopter MuseumChecked 2026-10-08 | Weston-super-Mare | South West England | Cierva C.30A (remains) AP506 Wreckage |
3D model
The Rota I in 3D
A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as K4232, the Royal Air Force Museum’s Avro 671 Rota I, the RAF’s licence-built Cierva C.30A autogiro, delivered to the School of Army Co-operation at Old Sarum in August 1934, recalled in 1940 to calibrate the Chain Home radar stations and flown with No. 529 Squadron, then SE-AZB in Sweden after the war until the RAF Museum bought it back in 1978, with its 140 hp Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major radial: overall aluminium dope, Type A blue, white and red roundels on the fuselage sides with black ‘K4232’ aft of them, plain aluminium three-blade rotor folded at rest on its pylon, black cylinders and exhaust collector ring and a bare metal two-blade propeller with red tips, as displayed at Hendon. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (562 KB) · Plate 50 in The Hangar
Computed from the survey
Collection context
Where the type is thickest
London & Around has 2 collections recording the type.
Marks and variants recorded
Cierva C.24; Cierva C.30A (remains).
Type notes
The Cierva C.30 / Avro Rota in brief
| Type | Cierva C.30 / Avro Rota |
|---|---|
| UK museums holding one | 4 |
| Airframes recorded in this survey | 4 |
Serials are the gazetteer's survey snapshot of what each collection records on charge — restorations move between workshops and reserve hangars, so check the museum page for opening times and current display status before travelling. Every type across 119 museums is indexed in the Compendium.
Aircraft questions
Frequently asked
How many Cierva C.30 / Avro Rota airframes are left in the UK?
The Aviation Gazetteer records 4 Cierva C.30 / Avro Rota airframes in UK collections.
Which museum has the most Cierva C.30 / Avro Rota airframes?
De Havilland Aircraft Museum has the most in this survey, with 1 recorded airframe.