Types you’ll see alongside
Avro Vulcan, BAC Strikemaster & Bulldog, Blackburn Buccaneer, English Electric Lightning, Gloster Javelin.
Aircraft hub · 1946 · Early jet age
Berlin Airlift heavy hauler — coal in, gratitude out. The gazetteer currently lists it at 3 UK museums.
Last verified 2026-10-11 against the gazetteer Compendium. Airframes move — confirm on museum pages before travel.
On charge
The gazetteer records 3 Handley Page Hastings airframes (including cockpit sections and replicas where noted) across 3 UK collections, in 2 regions: East of England, Midlands & Lincolnshire.
| Museum | City | Region | Airframes recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| IWM DuxfordChecked 2026-10-08 | Cambridge | East of England | Handley Page Hastings C.1A TG528 |
| Newark Air MuseumChecked 2026-10-08 | Newark | Midlands & Lincolnshire | Handley Page Hastings T.5 TG517 |
| Royal Air Force Museum MidlandsChecked 2026-10-08 | Shifnal | Midlands & Lincolnshire | Handley Page Hastings T.5 TG511 |
3D model
A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as TG528, IWM Duxford’s Handley Page Hastings C.1A, built as a C.1 and flown in the Berlin Airlift and later with No. 24 Squadron, rebuilt to C.2 standard with the larger tailplane set low on the rear fuselage, preserved from 1968 and now hung in AirSpace at Duxford, with its four 1,675 hp Bristol Hercules 106 sleeve-valve radials, painted in the early Transport Command scheme it is displayed in today: natural metal overall with pale grey-green cowlings, a dark blue cheatline with the Transport Command lightning flash below the flight deck, Type C1 fuselage roundels on the cheatline with a black ‘T’ aft of them, a small black ‘TG528’ on the rear fuselage, ‘TG’ over ‘528’ on the fin above a red and blue fin flash, Type C roundels above the wings and black four-blade propellers with yellow tips. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (1.5 MB) · Plate 120 in The Hangar
Computed from the survey
Avro Vulcan, BAC Strikemaster & Bulldog, Blackburn Buccaneer, English Electric Lightning, Gloster Javelin.
Midlands & Lincolnshire has 2 collections recording the type.
Handley Page Hastings C.1A; Handley Page Hastings T.5.
Type notes
| Type | Handley Page Hastings |
|---|---|
| UK museums holding one | 3 |
| Airframes recorded in this survey | 3 |
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
The Aviation Gazetteer records 3 Handley Page Hastings airframes in UK collections.
IWM Duxford has the most in this survey, with 1 recorded airframe.