# Aviation Gazetteer

> A complete survey of every aviation museum, heritage centre and preserved airfield collection in the United Kingdom — 119 museums across nine regional commands — plus a chronological aircraft Compendium, UK airshows, military fly-bys, free-museum lists, and long-form guides on where to see Spitfires, Lancasters, Vulcans and Concorde.

The Aviation Gazetteer (Air Publication 118) is an independent UK reference site edited by Marcus Greenwood. It lists museums with inventories, visitor ratings, maps and opening-hour notes, and answers “where can I see this aircraft in Britain?” for types from Cayley’s glider to the Eurofighter Typhoon. Figures are commonly published museum and type-history numbers; verify opening hours before travelling.

## Core pages

- [Aviation Gazetteer homepage](https://airmuseums.co.uk/): 119 UK aviation museums, regional commands, situation map and airframe search
- [Museums](https://airmuseums.co.uk/museums): Section I — every UK aviation museum, region by region, with photographs, prices and links to each museum page
- [Aircraft](https://airmuseums.co.uk/aircraft): Section II — every aircraft type on display in a UK museum by era, The Hangar's 3D plates and the where-to-see guides
- [Articles](https://airmuseums.co.uk/articles): Section III — supplements, special articles, field guides, airshows and fly-bys
- [The Compendium](https://airmuseums.co.uk/compendium): Chronological ledger of every aircraft type on charge across the gazetteer’s museums, with stats, silhouettes and museum links
- [North America (overseas supplement)](https://airmuseums.co.uk/north-america): Eight hero museums outside the UK, two in Canada (Canadian Warplane Heritage, Hamilton; Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa) and six in the US (National Museum of the USAF, Udvar-Hazy Center, National Naval Aviation Museum, Pima Air & Space, The Museum of Flight, Intrepid Museum), each with a feature page under `/north-america/`
- [Free aviation museums](https://airmuseums.co.uk/free-museums): Free-entry and donation-entry museums from the gazetteer survey
- [Best aviation museums in the UK](https://airmuseums.co.uk/best-aviation-museums-uk): Essential three, best by category, and honourable detours drawn from 119
- [Regional museum hubs](https://airmuseums.co.uk/museums/scotland): Command-level lists (Scotland, East of England, Midlands, etc.) under `/museums/`
- [Aircraft type hubs](https://airmuseums.co.uk/aircraft/supermarine-spitfire): Per-type “where to see” pages under `/aircraft/` generated from the Compendium
- [Museums with open cockpits](https://airmuseums.co.uk/museums-with-open-cockpits): Amenity filter pages (cafes, parking, indoor displays, open cockpits)
- [County hubs](https://airmuseums.co.uk/museums/county/norfolk): Aviation museums by county (12 counties with three or more museums) under `/museums/county/`
- [Museums near a city](https://airmuseums.co.uk/museums/near/ipswich): Museums within 30 miles of 38 UK cities, nearest first, under `/museums/near/`
- [Era hubs](https://airmuseums.co.uk/museums/era/second-world-war): Museums holding aircraft of each era, UK-wide and by region, under `/museums/era/` and `/museums/{region}/{era}`
- [Free museums by area](https://airmuseums.co.uk/free-museums/norfolk) and [open cockpits by region](https://airmuseums.co.uk/museums-with-open-cockpits/northern-england): field lists checked against the museums' own sites
- [Notable airframes](https://airmuseums.co.uk/airframe): Researched histories of individual aircraft (XH558, R5868, G-BOAF…) under `/airframe/`
- [Aircraft compared](https://airmuseums.co.uk/compare): Hand-written comparisons with the UK museums holding both, under `/compare/`
- [Manufacturers](https://airmuseums.co.uk/manufacturer): Aircraft makers and their types on display, under `/manufacturer/`
- [Historic airfields](https://airmuseums.co.uk/airfields): Former RAF, USAAF and naval stations with a museum on site, under `/airfields/`

## Aircraft guides

- [The Spitfire — Supplement No. 1](https://airmuseums.co.uk/spitfire): Biography through 24 marks, and where to see survivors
- [The Spitfire at 90](https://airmuseums.co.uk/spitfire-90): 2026 anniversary events and where to celebrate
- [Where to see a Spitfire](https://airmuseums.co.uk/where-to-see-a-spitfire): Every UK museum airframe, flying venues, cockpit experiences
- [Where to see Concorde](https://airmuseums.co.uk/where-to-see-concorde): All six public UK Concordes and which you can board
- [Where to see a Lancaster](https://airmuseums.co.uk/where-to-see-a-lancaster): Flying, taxiing and static Lancasters in Britain
- [Where to see a Vulcan](https://airmuseums.co.uk/where-to-see-a-vulcan): Museums, cockpits and live taxi runs
- [The Hangar: aircraft profiles in 3D](https://airmuseums.co.uk/aircraft#hangar): Every 3D model as a book-style side profile with history, specification and an interactive viewer, filterable by era, role and engine, with a to-scale view
- [The Vampire — Supplement No. 2](https://airmuseums.co.uk/vampire): History of the de Havilland Vampire and twin-boom family
- [Who Flew First?](https://airmuseums.co.uk/first-flight): Wright Brothers vs Alberto Santos Dumont
- [The Six-Year Sky](https://airmuseums.co.uk/ww2-air-war): The Second World War in the air, 1939–1945 — interactive timeline special

## Practical

- [UK Airshows](https://airmuseums.co.uk/airshows): Major UK airshows with seasonal dates, venues and official links; one guide per show under `/airshows/{show}`
- [Military Fly-Bys](https://airmuseums.co.uk/military-flybys): Mach Loop, Lake District and RAF Lakenheath
- [About this publication](https://airmuseums.co.uk/about): How the gazetteer was made
- [Methodology](https://airmuseums.co.uk/methodology): Survey scope, sources, selection and limits
- [Updates](https://airmuseums.co.uk/updates): Amendment record: every addition to the site since July 2026, newest first
- [Corrections and errata](https://airmuseums.co.uk/corrections): Dated compiler-maintained correction log
- [Marcus Greenwood, compiler](https://airmuseums.co.uk/author): Editor-of-record profile and identity links
- [Contact](https://airmuseums.co.uk/contact): Editorial corrections and museum updates
- [Privacy notice](https://airmuseums.co.uk/privacy): UK GDPR and data-processing notice
- [Terms of use](https://airmuseums.co.uk/terms): Verification disclaimer and dataset-licence status
- [Compiler's visit log](https://airmuseums.co.uk/logbook): Human-confirmed visit record, currently empty
- [Leo's Plane Crazy](https://airmuseums.co.uk/plane-crazy): Junior squadron logbook (Roblox Plane Crazy)

## Optional

- [Badge builder](https://airmuseums.co.uk/badge): “Find us on the Aviation Gazetteer” badge for museums
- [Share cards](https://airmuseums.co.uk/share): Instagram-ready social images
- [Sitemap](https://airmuseums.co.uk/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable list of indexable URLs including every museum page under `/museum/`; split by template at [sitemap-index.xml](https://airmuseums.co.uk/sitemap-index.xml)
- [Atom feed](https://airmuseums.co.uk/feed.xml): Upcoming airshows and major guide updates