About this museum
East Kirkby is not really a museum; it is a functioning slice of 1944 Lincolnshire with an entry fee. The Panton brothers built it around Lancaster NX611 'Just Jane' as a memorial to a brother lost over Nuremberg, and the original control tower, NAAFI and blast shelters do the rest. On taxi-run days Just Jane thunders down the strip on all four Merlins, close enough that reviewers report involuntary tears and singed eyebrows in roughly equal measure.
Lancaster NX611 (taxiing now, returning to flight one day, they swear) and Mosquito NF.II HJ711 — the only running Mosquito in Europe. There is also a B-25 to make the Americans feel at home.
- Lancaster VII NX611 "Just Jane", taxiing
- Mosquito NF.II HJ711 — Europe’s only runner
- B-25 Mitchell "Hot Gen"
- Handley Page Hampden under restoration
Check the events calendar and book taxi-run days early; ~£15 event tickets are the best value in British aviation. The hangar's personal-effects displays are quietly devastating.
“Attended the Lancaster and Mosquito taxi runs eventually and it was an incredible day.”— Ian, 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 Lancaster B.VII 'Just Jane' (taxiing) | NX611 | |
| Bristol Blenheim IV | — | |
| DH Mosquito NF.II (running) | HJ711 | |
| Handley Page Hampden (under restoration) | AE436 | |
| North American B-25 Mitchell | 44-29366 | |
| Percival Proctor | — |
Inventory researched 2026-07-18: source 1 · source 2. Aircraft move between sites; report corrections to the compiler.
Location & contact
- Address
- East Kirkby, Spilsby PE23 4DE
- Phone
- 01790 763207
- Website
- www.lincsaviation.co.uk/
- Hours
- Tue–Sat 9.30am–5pm
(from your local clock — verify before travel) - Gazetteer
- MI-04 on the situation map