Air Publication 118 · Annex A · July 2026
Every aircraft type on charge across the gazetteer’s 118 museums, mustered in one chronological ledger — from a Yorkshire baronet’s 1853 glider to the jets on quick reaction alert this morning. Marks grouped, statistics supplied, opinions included at no extra cost.
Reading brief
The ledger runs chronologically by first flight, divided into seven eras. Marks are grouped — one Spitfire row covers all twenty-four — and each entry links to the gazetteer museums where an example is held: click a station code to jump to that museum’s full entry. The types that changed everything get the larger, illustrated rows.
Omitted from charge: bare engines, radar heads, airfield tractors, one crashed hang glider, and several items Google believes are aeroplanes. The compiler stands by these judgements.
SOURCES: MUSEUM COLLECTION RECORDS, JULY 2026 · FIRST-FLIGHT YEARS & FIGURES ARE THE COMMONLY ACCEPTED ONES (~ = ESTIMATED) · SILHOUETTES INDICATE CLASS, NOT PORTRAIT LIKENESS