Station briefing
About this museum
The Wings Museum near Balcombe displays Eastern Front and D-Day aircraft archaeology in crash-site dioramas — raw, unpolished and deliberately so; you can board a genuine D-Day veteran C-47.
Sortie notes
Weekends typically; 'no polish here' is the point, as one reviewer approvingly noted.
“The story of extraordinary heroes preserved by volunteers and passionate aviation historians.”— Dan, 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Avro Lancaster MR.7 rear fuselage | NE135 | |
| Bell P-63C Kingcobra | 44-4315 | |
| Bell P-63C Kingcobra cockpit | 43-11137 | |
| Bristol Beaufighter If cockpit | — | |
| Bristol Beaufort VIII nose | A9-555 | |
| de Havilland Chipmunk T.10 | WD377 | |
| Douglas A-20 Havoc (composite) | 41-19393 | |
| Douglas B-26K Invader nose | 64-17657 | |
| Douglas C-47A Skytrain fuselage/nose | 42-100611 | |
| Handley Page Hampden B.1 wreckage | P1273 | |
| Hawker Hurricane IIc wreckage | BD731 | |
| Miles Magister I fuselage | T9768 | |
| Nakajima B5N2 Kate wreckage | 5353 | |
| North American B-25J Mitchell nose | 43-36140 | |
| North American TB-25J Mitchell fuselage | 44-30861 |
Inventory researched 2026-07-18: source 1 · source 2 · source 3. Aircraft move between sites; report corrections to the compiler.
Visit
Location & contact
- Address
- Unit 1 Bucklands Farm, Brantridge Ln, Haywards Heath RH17 6JT
- Phone
- 07508 357340
- Website
- www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/
- Gazetteer
- SE-08 on the situation map