About this museum
The RAF Museum's Midlands site at Cosford is where the collection keeps its research prototypes and its Cold War nerve. The National Cold War Exhibition hangs aircraft from the ceiling like a mobile over history's most dangerous cot, and is the only place on Earth you can stand beneath all three V-bombers — Vulcan, Victor and Valiant — at once. Elsewhere: captured German hardware including a V-1 and V-2 pairing that visitors repeatedly describe as 'étonnant', because roughly half the reviews are in French.
TSR-2 XR220, one of two survivors of the most gifted aircraft Britain ever cancelled, sharing floor space with the stainless-steel Bristol 188 and the record-breaking Fairey FD.2's stablemates.
- TSR-2 XR220
- Vulcan, Victor & Valiant under one roof
- Chinook "Bravo November", Falklands legend
- Bristol 188 stainless-steel research jet
- V-1 and V-2 side by side
- The world’s oldest Spitfire, K9942
Free entry, £7ish parking, on-site railway station (Cosford, on the Wolverhampton–Shrewsbury line) for the smug. Allow 4+ hours; the Cold War hall alone eats an afternoon.
“RAF museum in Cosford is a gem .”— kevin, 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Armstrong Whitworth Argosy T.1 | XP411 | |
| Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.14 | WS843 | |
| Avro Lincoln B.2/4A | RF398 | |
| Avro York C.1 | TS798 | |
| BAC TSR-2 | XR220 | |
| Boulton Paul Defiant I | N1671 | |
| Bristol Bolingbroke IV | L8756 | |
| Bristol Britannia 312 | G-AOVF | |
| Bristol M.1c replica | C4994 | |
| British Aerospace EAP | ZF534 | |
| Canadair Sabre F.4 | XB812 | |
| Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina | L-866 | |
| de Havilland Mosquito TT.35 | TA639 | |
| de Havilland Tiger Moth II | T6296 | |
| Douglas Dakota C.4 | KN645 | |
| English Electric Canberra PR.9 | XH171 | |
| English Electric Lightning F.1/P.1B | XG337 | |
| Fairchild Argus II | FS628 | |
| Fairey Delta 2 | WG777 | |
| Fieseler Fi 156-C7 Storch | VP746 | |
| Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8/R6 | 733682 | |
| General Dynamics F-111F | 74-0177 | |
| Gloster Gladiator I | K8042 | |
| Gloster Javelin FAW.1 | XA564 | |
| Handley Page Hastings T.5 | TG511 | |
| Handley Page Victor K.2 | XH672 | |
| Hawker Afghan Hind | n/a | |
| Hawker Hart II Trainer | K4972 | |
| Hawker Hunter T.7A | XL568 | |
| Hawker Hurricane IIc | LF738 | |
| Hawker Siddeley Andover E.3A | XS639 | |
| Hawker Siddeley Dominie T.1 | XS709 | |
| Hawker Siddeley Kestrel F(GA).1 | XS695 | |
| Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R.1 | XV249 | |
| Hawker Siddeley Vulcan B.2 | XM598 | |
| Hawker Tempest II | PR536 | |
| Junkers Ju 88R-1 | 360043 | |
| Lockheed C-130K Hercules C.3 | XV202 | |
| Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2/Trop | 10639 | |
| Messerschmitt Me 262A-2A | VK893 | |
| Messerschmitt Me 410A-1/U2 | 420430 | |
| Mikoyan MiG-15bis | 1120 | |
| Mikoyan MiG-21PF | 503 | |
| Miles M.14A Hawk Trainer 3 | T9967 | |
| Percival Provost T.1 | WV562 | |
| SEPECAT Jaguar ACT | XX765 | |
| Short Belfast C.1 | XR371 | |
| Short Stirling III (fuselage section) | LK488 | |
| Sikorsky MH-53J Pave Low III | 68-8284 | |
| Sopwith 1½ Strutter Replica | A8226 | |
| Sopwith Pup | N5182 | |
| Supermarine Spitfire I | K9942 | |
| Vickers Valiant B.1 | XD818 | |
| Vickers Wellington X | MF628 | |
| Westland Whirlwind HAR.10 | XP299 |
Inventory researched 2026-07-18: source 1. Aircraft move between sites; report corrections to the compiler.
Location & contact
- Address
- Lysander Ave, Cosford, Shifnal TF11 8UP
- Phone
- 01902 376200
- Website
- www.rafmuseum.org.uk/midlands
- Hours
- Daily 10am–5pm (Mar–Oct); Daily 10am–4pm (Nov–Feb)
(from your local clock — verify before travel) - Gazetteer
- MI-01 on the situation map