Station briefing
About this museum
Sywell Aviation Museum: a POW-hut-sized, free museum on Britain's loveliest Art Deco aerodrome, where resident Spitfires and a Mustang provide unscheduled flypasts.
Sortie notes
Weekends in season; the Aviator Hotel next door completes the 1930s fantasy.
“An amazing place if you like to step back in time.”— Robert, 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| de Havilland Chipmunk T.10 cockpit | WG419 | |
| de Havilland Vampire T.11 nose section | XD599 | |
| English Electric Canberra TT.18 nose section | WH887 | |
| Handley Page Jetstream 200 | G-RAVL | |
| Hawker Hunter F.2 | WN904 | |
| North American Harvard cockpit | — |
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
- Sywell Aerodrome, Wellingborough Rd, Northampton NN6 0BN
- Phone
- 07968 061708
- Website
- www.sywellaviationmuseum.org.uk/
- Gazetteer
- MI-09 on the situation map