Station briefing
About this museum
RAF Manston's history museum spans 1916 RNAS days to Cold War Meteors, with strong 1940s room-sets — and it sits next door to the Spitfire & Hurricane Memorial Museum for an easy double.
Sortie notes
Cafe's all-day breakfast is repeatedly endorsed by reviewers with conviction.
“Amazing experience we had today at RAF Manston Museum.”— Cristiana, 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Armstrong Whitworth Meteor TT.20 | WD646 | |
| Avro Vulcan B.1 nose | XA893 | |
| Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B | XV864 | |
| Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B nose | XV352 | |
| Canadair CT-133 Silver Star | G-BYOY | |
| de Havilland Chipmunk T.10 | WP772 | |
| English Electric Canberra nose | WT205 | |
| English Electric Lightning F.6 | XR770 | |
| English Electric P.1B | XA847 | |
| Handley Page Victor K.2 nose | XL190 | |
| Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR.2 nose | XV229 | |
| Huntair Pathfinder 2 | — | |
| Hunting Jet Provost T.4 | XR658 | |
| Panavia Tornado GR.1 nose | ZA325 | |
| Pitts Model 12 | SE-XZS | |
| PZL TS-11 Iskra | G-BXVZ | |
| SEPECAT Jaguar GR.3A | XZ106 | |
| Slingsby Cadet TX.3 | XA312 | |
| Slingsby Grasshopper TX.1 | XA231 | |
| Taylorcraft Auster V | RT486 | |
| Westland Wessex HU.5 | XS482 |
Inventory researched 2026-07-18: source 1 · source 2. Aircraft move between sites; report corrections to the compiler.
Visit
Location & contact
- Address
- Manston Rd, Ramsgate CT12 5DF
- Phone
- 01843 825224
- Website
- rafmanston.co.uk/
- Gazetteer
- SE-07 on the situation map