About this museum
Scotland's national aviation collection at East Fortune, a preserved WWI and WWII airfield in East Lothian farmland — and the very field from which the airship R34 departed in July 1919 to make the first east-to-west Atlantic crossing. The hangars are period pieces themselves; the interpretation is world-class Museums-of-Scotland stuff; and the Concorde hangar is built like a shrine, because it is one.
Concorde G-BOAA, which flew British Airways' first commercial supersonic service in 1976 and arrived here by barge and giant road-crawl in 2004. The military hangar counters with a Vulcan and a Blue Streak missile.
- Concorde G-BOAA — flew BA’s first supersonic service
- Vulcan B.2A XM597, Black Buck raider
- Me 163 Komet rocket fighter
- Percy Pilcher’s 1896 Hawk glider
- Red Arrows Hawk XX308
Visitors planning two hours report staying four. Outside exhibits are weathering — reviewers notice — but the boarding-a-Concorde experience is described, accurately, as a childhood dream serviced.
“It's the second time I've visited because it's absolutely awesome!”— slarmouth, 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde | G-BOAA 'Alpha Alpha' | |
| Avro Vulcan B.2A (Black Buck raider) | XM597 | |
| BAC 1-11 | G-AVMO 'Lothian Region' | |
| BAE Hawk T.1A (ex-Red Arrows) | XX308 | |
| Beech 18 | G-ASUG | |
| Boeing 707 | G-APFJ | |
| Bristol Bolingbroke | — | |
| British Aerospace Jetstream 31 | G-JSSD | |
| Britten-Norman Islander | G-BELF | |
| De Havilland Comet 4C | G-BDIX | |
| de Havilland Dove | G-ANOV | |
| de Havilland Dragon | VH-SNB | |
| DH Sea Vampire | — | |
| DH Sea Venom | — | |
| English Electric Lightning | — | |
| General Aircraft Cygnet | — | |
| Hawker Sea Hawk | — | |
| Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C | G-ARPH | |
| Messerschmitt Me 163B Komet | — | |
| Panavia Tornado | — | |
| Percival Provost | — | |
| Percy Pilcher's Hawk glider (1896) | — | |
| Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer | G-BBVF | |
| SEPECAT Jaguar | — | |
| Spartan Cruiser III | G-ACYK | |
| Supermarine Spitfire LF.XVIe | — | |
| Vickers Viscount 701 | G-AMOG |
Inventory researched 2026-07-18: source 1. Aircraft move between sites; report corrections to the compiler.
Location & contact
- Address
- East Fortune Airfield, B1347, East Fortune, North Berwick EH39 5LF
- Phone
- 0300 123 6789
- Website
- www.nms.ac.uk/flight
- Hours
- Daily 10am–5pm (Apr–Oct)
(from your local clock — verify before travel) - Gazetteer
- SC-01 on the situation map