AP 118 · No. 10 Section II · Aircraft 1938

Aircraft hub · 1938 · Second World War

Handley Page Halifax

Bomber Command’s other heavy; both survivors here were hauled back from a Norwegian lake and a French crash site. The gazetteer currently lists it at 3 UK museums.

1938
First flight
6,176
Built
282 mph
Top speed
3
Museums

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

On charge

Where to see the Handley Page Halifax in the UK

The gazetteer records 3 Handley Page Halifax airframes (including cockpit sections and replicas where noted) across 3 UK collections, in 3 regions: London & Around, Northern England, East of England.

MuseumCityRegionAirframes recorded
IWM DuxfordChecked 2026-10-08 Cambridge East of England Handley Page Halifax VII nose section PN323 Cockpit or section
Royal Air Force Museum LondonChecked 2026-10-08 London London & Around Handley Page Halifax II (recovered wreck) W1048 Wreckage
Yorkshire Air MuseumChecked 2026-10-08 York Northern England Handley Page Halifax III (composite, ex HR792) LV907

3D model

The B.III in 3D

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as the Yorkshire Air Museum’s Handley Page Halifax B.III at Elvington, a composite rebuilt by the museum’s volunteers around fuselage sections of Halifax II HR792, which force-landed on the Isle of Lewis in 1945, with parts of other Halifaxes and the outer wings of a Handley Page Hastings, painted as it is shown there: Dark Earth and Dark Green upper surfaces over black sides and undersides, on the port side as LV907 ‘NP-F’ ‘Friday the 13th’ of No. 158 Squadron with its nose art and a bomb log of 128 operations, on the starboard side as NP763 ‘H7-N’ of No. 346 (Free French) ‘Guyenne’ Squadron with French roundels and a red fin, four Bristol Hercules radials with red cowling lips, the Perspex nose, the four-gun dorsal and tail turrets, the H2S radome under the rear fuselage and black three-blade propellers with yellow tips; the upper wing surfaces are never photographed from above, so they carry no roundels. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (1.8 MB) · Plate 91 in The Hangar

Computed from the survey

Collection context

Types you’ll see alongside

Avro Anson, Blackburn Buccaneer, de Havilland Canada Chipmunk, de Havilland Vampire, English Electric Lightning.

Where the type is thickest

East of England has 1 collection recording the type.

Marks and variants recorded

Handley Page Halifax III (composite, ex HR792).

Type notes

The Handley Page Halifax in brief

TypeHandley Page Halifax (II/III)
UK museums holding one3
Airframes recorded in this survey3

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 Handley Page Halifax airframes are left in the UK?

The Aviation Gazetteer records 3 Handley Page Halifax airframes in UK collections.

Which museum has the most Handley Page Halifax airframes?

IWM Duxford has the most in this survey, with 1 recorded airframe.