About this museum
The heavyweight champion, and it isn't close. Europe's largest air museum occupies a real fighter station — the RAF's first with tarmac in mind, the USAAF's 78th Fighter Group home, and the airfield where the Spitfire entered squadron service in 1938. Seven hangars and exhibition halls run the gamut from dope-and-fabric to stainless steel, and because Duxford remains a working aerodrome with the Aircraft Restoration Company and Fighter Collection on site, the exhibits have an unnerving habit of starting up and flying away. Budget a full day; reviewers who allotted two hours file their regrets.
Concorde 101 (G-AXDN), the pre-production development aircraft and the fastest Concorde of them all at Mach 2.23 — plus an SR-71A Blackbird and B-52 in Foster's American Air Museum, and B-17 Sally B outside.
- Concorde 101 G-AXDN — the fastest of them all
- Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird
- B-52D Stratofortress
- TSR-2 XR222 (one of the two survivors)
- B-17G Flying Fortress "Sally B"
- Spitfire Mk.Ia N3200, Dunkirk veteran
Pre-book online; the walk between hangars is long and exposed, so dress for the airfield weather. French visitors keep leaving five-star reviews, which for a museum of British aviation is the highest possible compliment.
“Great air show, good museum with lots to see”— Emma, 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Airco DH.9 | D5649 | |
| Airco DH.9 | E8894 | |
| Airspeed Ambassador 2 | G-ALZO | |
| Airspeed Oxford I | V3388 | |
| Avro 671 Rota I | HM580 | |
| Avro Anson I | N4877 | |
| Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck | 18393 | |
| Avro Lancaster X | KB889 | |
| Avro Shackleton MR.3 | XF708 | |
| Avro Vulcan B.2 | XJ824 | |
| Avro York | G-ANTK | |
| BAC Concorde | G-AXDN | |
| BAC One Eleven 500 | G-AVMU | |
| BAC Strikemaster | 1133 | |
| BAC Super VC10 | G-ASGC | |
| BAC TSR.2 | XR222 | |
| Bell UH-1H Huey | 72-21605 | |
| Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress | 231983 | |
| Boeing B-29A Superfortress | 44-61748 | |
| Boeing B-52D Stratofortress | 56-0689 | |
| Boeing-Stearman PT-17 | CF-EQS | |
| Bristol Blenheim IF | L6739 | |
| Bristol Britannia 312 | G-AOVT | |
| Bristol F.2B Fighter | E2581 | |
| British Aerospace 146 CC2 | ZE701 | |
| Britten-Norman BN-2A-III Trislander | G-BEVT | |
| CAC CA-18 Mustang 22 | 415152 | |
| Consolidated B-24M Liberator | 44-50493 | |
| de Havilland Comet | G-APDB | |
| de Havilland Dove | G-ALFU | |
| de Havilland Mosquito TT.35 | TA719 | |
| de Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.2 | XS576 | |
| de Havilland Vampire T.11 | WZ590 | |
| Douglas C-47A Skytrain | 43-15509 | |
| English Electric Lightning F.1 | XM135 | |
| Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II | 77-0259 | |
| Fairey Firefly TT.I | Z2033 | |
| Fairey Gannet ECM.6 | XG797 | |
| Fairey Swordfish | NF370 | |
| FMA IA 58 Pucará | ZD487 [A-549] | |
| General Dynamics F-111E | 67-0120 | |
| Gloster Javelin FAW.9 | XH897 | |
| Gloster Meteor F.8 | WK991 | |
| Handley Page Hastings C.1A | TG528 | |
| Handley Page Victor B.1 | XH648 | |
| Hawker Fury I | K5674 | |
| Hawker Hunter F.6A | XE627 | |
| Hawker Hurricane I | P2902 | |
| Hawker Hurricane I | V7497 | |
| Hawker Hurricane IIB | Z2315 | |
| Hawker Hurricane TR.2B | BE505 | |
| Hawker Hurricane XII | R4118 | |
| Hawker Nimrod II | K3661 | |
| Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 | SR661 | |
| Hawker Sea Hawk FB.5 | WM969 | |
| Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.2B | XV865 | |
| Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 | XZ133 | |
| Hawker Siddeley Trident 2E | G-AVFB | |
| Hawker Tempest II | MW763/PR533 | |
| Heinkel He 162 A-2 Salamander | — | |
| Lockheed 12A Electra Junior | — | |
| Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird | 61-7962 | |
| Lockheed U-2 C | 56-6692 | |
| McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle | 76-0020 | |
| McDonnell Douglas F-4J(UK) Phantom | 155529 | |
| McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.2 | XV474 | |
| Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3 | 1190 | |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 | 501 | |
| Miles Magister I | G-AFBS | |
| North American AT-16 Harvard II | — | |
| North American B-25J Mitchell | 44-31171 | |
| North American P-51D Mustang | 413521 | |
| North American P-51D Mustang | 472216 | |
| North American P-51D Mustang | 411631 | |
| Panavia Tornado GR.1 | ZA465 | |
| Panavia Tornado GR.4 | ZA469 | |
| Percival Proctor III | LZ766 | |
| Republic P-47D Thunderbolt | 549192 | |
| Republic P-47D Thunderbolt | 226413 | |
| Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2C | 2699 | |
| Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 | F3556 | |
| Short Sunderland MR.5 | ML796 | |
| SPAD XIII | — | |
| Supermarine Spitfire F.24 | VN485 | |
| Supermarine Spitfire FR.XIVE | MV293 | |
| Supermarine Spitfire HF.VIIIC | MT928 | |
| Supermarine Spitfire IA | N3200 | |
| Supermarine Spitfire LF.IXB | MH434 | |
| Supermarine Spitfire LF.XVIE | RN201 | |
| Supermarine Spitfire LF.XVIE | RW382 | |
| Supermarine Spitfire VB | BM597 | |
| Supermarine Spitfire VC | EE602 | |
| Vickers Viscount 701 | G-ALWF | |
| Westland Lysander | V9673 | |
| Westland Sea King HAS.6 | XV712 | |
| Westland Wasp HAS.1 | XS567 | |
| Westland Wessex HAS.1 | XS863 | |
| Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 | XK936 |
Location & contact
- Address
- IWM Duxford Airfield, Cambridge CB22 4QR
- Phone
- 020 7091 3067
- Website
- www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford
- Hours
- Daily 10am–6pm (Mar–Oct); Daily 10am–4pm (Nov–Feb)
(from your local clock — verify before travel) - Gazetteer
- EA-01 on the situation map