Station briefing
About this museum
Hawkinge is hallowed turf: the closest fighter station to France in 1940, now the Kent Battle of Britain Museum with the world's largest collection of Battle artefacts — thousands of items recovered from crash sites, plus full-size replicas from the films.
Sortie notes
Strict no-photography policy inside (a famous quirk); the collection more than compensates.
“What a fantastic day out.”— Amanda, 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol Bolingbroke / Blenheim composite | — | |
| CASA 2.111B (Heinkel He 111) | B.2I-103 | |
| CASA 352L (Junkers Ju 52/3m) | T.2B-272 | |
| de Havilland Tiger Moth (composite) | — | |
| Fieseler Fi 156C-7 Storch | VP546 | |
| Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 tail section | VW589 | |
| Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 wreckage | 4853 | |
| North American Harvard IIB | FX442 |
Inventory researched 2026-07-18: source 1 · source 2 · source 3 · source 4 · source 5. Aircraft move between sites; report corrections to the compiler.
Visit
Location & contact
- Address
- Aerodrome Rd, Hawkinge, Folkestone CT18 7AG
- Phone
- 01303 893140
- Website
- www.kbobm.org/
- Gazetteer
- SE-09 on the situation map