About this museum
Bournemouth Aviation Museum's proposition is beautifully blunt: nearly everything opens, and you may climb in. Cockpits from airliners to a Vulcan (seven people used to fit in there; reviewers confirm this seems impossible from inside), a mobile control tower with a live feed of Bournemouth Airport ATC, and a viewing line for the adjacent runway.
The sit-anywhere policy itself — one entry fee, no per-cockpit charges, a full BAC 1-11 flight-deck sim in a shed, and thousands (reviewers insist: literally thousands) of model aircraft.
- The seven-seat Vulcan cockpit
- BAC 1-11 full flight-deck simulator
- Live Bournemouth ATC feed tower
Free parking, free simulator, volunteers described as surrogate grandfathers. Mostly outdoors, so pick your weather; the odd review notes the cafe keeps casual hours.
“Super Museum and volunteers make it feel like at home.”— varun, visitor report
Airframe checklist
Tick them off as you go. Identities are as held in the gazetteer survey — verify against the museum’s own labels if something has moved.
| Type | Identity | |
|---|---|---|
| Avro Vulcan B.2 (MRR) XH537 – Nose section only | — | |
| BAC Jet Provost T.5A XW310 | — | |
| BAC One-Eleven ZE432 – Forward fuselage only | — | |
| Boeing 737-200 21135 | — | |
| British Aerospace 125 ZD620 | — | |
| British Aerospace Jetstream 31 640 – Nose section only | — | |
| CMC Leopard 001 | — | |
| Colomban Cri-Cri 12-0135 | — | |
| Daimler-Benz DB 601 | — | |
| de Havilland Vampire T.11 XE856 | — | |
| English Electric Canberra PR.7 WT532 – Nose section only | — | |
| English Electric Lightning F.53 ZF582 – Nose section only | — | |
| Gloster Meteor NF.14 WS776 | — | |
| Grumman AA-5 Tiger 0979 | — | |
| Grumman American AA-1B 0245 | — | |
| Handley Page Herald 175 – Forward fuselage only | — | |
| Handley Page Victor K.2 XL164 – Nose section only | — | |
| Hawker Hunter F.6 XG160 | — | |
| Hunting Jet Provost T.3 XM404 | — | |
| Junkers Jumo 211 | — | |
| North American Harvard IIB Composite | — | |
| Percival Provost T.1 WW450/WW421 | — | |
| Radioplane Shelduck D.1 XR346/XV383/XW578 | — | |
| Rolls-Royce Griffon | — | |
| Rolls-Royce Nene | — | |
| Rolls-Royce Viper | — | |
| SEPECAT Jaguar GR.1 XX763 | — | |
| Vickers Vanguard – Nose section only | — | |
| Vickers Viscount 263 – Nose section only | — | |
| Westland Wasp HAS.1 XT431 | — | |
| Westland Wessex HAS.3 XT257 | — |
Inventory researched 2026-07-18: source 1. Aircraft move between sites; report corrections to the compiler.
Location & contact
- Address
- B3073 Merritown Ln, Christchurch BH23 6BA
- Phone
- 01202 473141
- Website
- www.bamhurn.org/
- Hours
- Daily 10am–5pm (Mar–Oct); Daily 10am–4pm (Nov–Feb)
(from your local clock — verify before travel) - Gazetteer
- SW-01 on the situation map