AP 118 · No. 10 Section II · Aircraft 1994

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Eurofighter Typhoon — UK museum locations

The Eurofighter Typhoon appears at 1 UK museum in the Aviation Gazetteer. Preserved Typhoons are rare; live ones are not. Pair any museum cockpit with the military fly-bys guide if you want to see the type airborne in the UK.

1994
First flight
~600
Built
Mach 2.0
Top speed
1
Museum
Illustrated plate of the Eurofighter Typhoon from the Compendium
The Compendium · 1994
Side profile of the Typhoon DA2, painted as ZH588, the RAF Museum London’s Eurofighter Typhoon development aircraft DA2, the first British-assembled Eurofighter, first flown from Warton on 6 April 1994, used by British Aerospace for flight-envelope and flight-control trials, later re-engined with Eurojet EJ200s, and hung from the roof of the Hendon hall since its retirement: the RAF’s current front-line fighter in prototype form, 35 ft 11 in in span, with two afterburning turbofans fed by a chin intake under the cockpit, a delta wing, all-moving canard foreplanes beside the cockpit, a single swept fin and a bubble canopy, shown standing level on its tricycle undercarriage with large black instrumentation pods on the wing tips, an empty pylon under each outer wing and a flight-test air-data boom on the upper port side of the radome: gloss black overall with a gold-tinted canopy, a pink and light-blue low-visibility RAF flash near the top of the fin, a cockerel badge and a white ‘ZH588’ lower on the fin, a low-visibility RAF roundel and the four-nation Eurofighter development roundel on each side of the fuselage and on the upper wings, white ‘NO STEP’ stencils and a yellow rescue panel, as displayed (it hangs with its wheels up, so the undercarriage follows production Typhoons, the cockerel badge is simplified and the upper-wing roundel positions are approximate)
Plate 213 · The Hangar

Last verified 2026-10-11 against the gazetteer Compendium. Airframes move — confirm on museum pages before travel.

On charge

Where to see the Eurofighter Typhoon in the UK

The gazetteer records 1 Eurofighter Typhoon airframe (including cockpit sections and replicas where noted) across 1 UK collection, in one region: London & Around.

MuseumCityRegionAirframes recorded
Royal Air Force Museum LondonChecked 2026-10-08 London London & Around Eurofighter Typhoon ZH588

3D model

The Typhoon DA2 in 3D

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as ZH588, the RAF Museum London’s Eurofighter Typhoon development aircraft DA2, the first British-assembled Eurofighter, first flown from Warton on 6 April 1994, used by British Aerospace for flight-envelope and flight-control trials, later re-engined with Eurojet EJ200s, and hung from the roof of the Hendon hall since its retirement: the RAF’s current front-line fighter in prototype form, 35 ft 11 in in span, with two afterburning turbofans fed by a chin intake under the cockpit, a delta wing, all-moving canard foreplanes beside the cockpit, a single swept fin and a bubble canopy, shown standing level on its tricycle undercarriage with large black instrumentation pods on the wing tips, an empty pylon under each outer wing and a flight-test air-data boom on the upper port side of the radome: gloss black overall with a gold-tinted canopy, a pink and light-blue low-visibility RAF flash near the top of the fin, a cockerel badge and a white ‘ZH588’ lower on the fin, a low-visibility RAF roundel and the four-nation Eurofighter development roundel on each side of the fuselage and on the upper wings, white ‘NO STEP’ stencils and a yellow rescue panel, as displayed (it hangs with its wheels up, so the undercarriage follows production Typhoons, the cockerel badge is simplified and the upper-wing roundel positions are approximate). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (987 KB) · Plate 213 in The Hangar

Computed from the survey

Collection context

Types you’ll see alongside

Airco DH.9 / DH.9A, Airspeed Oxford, Albatros D.Va, Avro 504, Avro Anson.

Rarity on charge

One of only 1 in UK public collections.

Where the type is thickest

London & Around has 1 collection recording the type.

Why it matters

The short story

The current occupant of the quick reaction sheds — four nations, a delta and canards, and more computing power than every other aircraft in this compendium combined. When something unidentified approaches British airspace today, this is what leaves Coningsby at full reheat, rattling the same Lincolnshire greenhouses the Lancasters did. History, it turns out, is a duty roster.

Type notes

The Eurofighter Typhoon in brief

TypeEurofighter Typhoon
UK museums holding one1
Airframes recorded in this survey1

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 Eurofighter Typhoon airframes are left in the UK?

The Aviation Gazetteer records 1 Eurofighter Typhoon airframe in UK collections.

Which museum has the most Eurofighter Typhoon airframes?

Royal Air Force Museum London has the most in this survey, with 1 recorded airframe.