Station briefing
About this museum
East Midlands Aeropark: a Vulcan, Nimrod R1 and Buccaneer parked on grassy mounds overlooking EMA's runway — half museum, half premier plane-spotting venue with a picnic culture.
Sortie notes
Interior access depends on volunteer numbers; sunny weekends deliver, wet Tuesdays may not — reviews are honest about this.
“Brilliant time, very good value for money.”— Nick, visitor report
Order of battle
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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Aérospatiale Gazelle | XX457 | |
| Armstrong Whitworth (Gloster) Meteor TT.20 | WM224 | |
| Armstrong Whitworth Argosy | G-BEOZ | |
| Avro Vulcan B.2 | XM575 | |
| BAC Lightning F.53 | ZF588 | |
| BAe Nimrod R1 | XW664 | |
| Beagle 206X | G-ARRM | |
| Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B | XV350 | |
| de Havilland Chipmunk T.10 | WP784 | |
| de Havilland Dove | G-ANUW | |
| de Havilland Sea Venom FAW.22 | XG737 | |
| de Havilland Vampire T.11 | XD534 | |
| de Havilland Vampire T.11 | XD447 | |
| English Electric Canberra T.17 | WH740 | |
| Gloster Javelin FAW.9 | XH767 | |
| Gloster Meteor NF.13 cockpit | WM367 | |
| Handley Page Jetstream T.1 | XX494 | |
| Hawker Hunter FR.10 | XJ714 | |
| Hawker Hunter GA.11 | WV382 | |
| Hawker Hunter T.7 | XL569 | |
| Hawker Sea Hawk FB.3 | WF299 | |
| Hunting Jet Provost T.4 | XP568 | |
| Percival Provost | WW442 | |
| Schleicher K-8 glider | — | |
| SEPECAT Jaguar GR.3A | XZ369 | |
| Vickers Vanguard 953C cockpit | G-APES | |
| Vickers Varsity T.1 | WL626 | |
| Vickers VC10 forward section | XV108 | |
| Vickers Viscount 804 cockpit | G-CSZB | |
| Westland Lynx HAS.3 | XZ721 | |
| Westland Sea King HC.4 | ZD477 | |
| Westland Wessex HC.2 | XT604 | |
| Westland Whirlwind Series 3 | VR-BEP |
Inventory researched 2026-07-18: source 1. Aircraft move between sites; report corrections to the compiler.
Visit
Location & contact
- Address
- Hill Top, Castle Donington, Derby DE74 2PR
- Phone
- 01332 850591
- Website
- www.eastmidlandsaeropark.org/
- Gazetteer
- MI-07 on the situation map