SW-09

The Upottery Airfield Nissen Hut Heritage Centre

Honiton · South West England

Band of Brothers ground zero: the 101st Airborne lifted off from Upottery for Normandy, and this Nissen-hut museum in the old ablutions block covers D-Day with working-radio-level detail.

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Station briefing

About this museum

Band of Brothers ground zero: the 101st Airborne lifted off from Upottery for Normandy, and this Nissen-hut museum in the old ablutions block covers D-Day with working-radio-level detail.

Sortie notes

Thu–Sun, Easter–end Oct, donations. Same team as Dunkeswell — do both.

“What a wonderful little gem this is.”— Jo, visitor report

Order of battle

Airframe checklist

No preserved airframes are on public display here.

This is an aviation-history, memorial or archive collection rather than an aircraft collection.

Inventory researched 2026-07-18: source 1 · source 2 · source 3. Aircraft move between sites; report corrections to the compiler.

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Location & contact

Address
The Upottery Airfield Heritage Centre Cherry Hayes Farm, Smeatharpe, Slough Ln, Honiton EX14 9RD
Phone
07778 857722
Website
www.southwestairfields.co.uk/page5.html
Gazetteer
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