Updates: what is new on the Aviation Gazetteer

October 20268 amendments

8 OctAL 18

The Hangar

6 aircraft into The Hangar

From the hourly build queue, each one modelled as a single real airframe.

8 OctAL 17

Design

This page

An amendment record, so returning readers can see what is new. It keeps itself up to date as aircraft arrive in The Hangar.

7 OctAL 16

The Hangar

15 aircraft into The Hangar

From the hourly build queue, each one modelled as a single real airframe.

7 OctAL 15

DesignMajor amendment

The redesign: AP 118 becomes a magazine

The biggest change since the first edition. The olive camouflage bands give way to paper and ink, and the site is laid out like a magazine: a cover, a contents page and three sections.

A cover and “In this issue” contents, and three sections with their own colour and front page: I · Museums in blue, II · Aircraft in yellow, III · Articles in red.
A three-tab masthead, thumb-index tabs down the right edge, a running head on every page, a page-turn pager to the next page in sequence and a colophon at the foot.
Paste-up furniture throughout: label-maker tape, taped-in prints, rubber stamps, halftone and torn edges.
Pages turn: the old page swings away from the spine as the next arrives.
The issue number follows the calendar, No. 01 in January to No. 12 in December.
The Hangar becomes the first section of the Aircraft front; museum pages show their collection in profile; The Best Museums becomes 35 feature cards.
New in Play: Spitfire, an arcade game at spitfiregame.com.

The home page before the redesign: dark olive camouflage band, stencil title and roundel — Before: 6 October

After: the cover

The Aircraft section front after the redesign, in yellow, with the Hangar flypast — After: Section II

Section III · Articles →Section II · Aircraft →Section I · Museums →

6 OctAL 14

The Hangar

21 aircraft into The Hangar

From the hourly build queue, each one modelled as a single real airframe.

5 OctAL 13

The Hangar

8 aircraft into The Hangar

From the hourly build queue, each one modelled as a single real airframe.

5 OctAL 12

3D modelsMajor amendment

The Hangar opens

Every model drawn side-on in the manner of the old profile books, each with a plate page: specification, the 3D model, its history, the airframe modelled and where to see one.

Filters by era, role, engine and origin, and a to-scale view.
The Supermarine S.6A N248, the Schneider Trophy racer at Solent Sky.
An hourly build queue starts working through every type in the Compendium without a model; the arrivals are listed below as they land.
Museum pages gain 3D models of the museum sites themselves, and the aircraft models turn slowly on their pages.

The Hangar →

4 OctAL 11

3D modelsMajor amendment

Aircraft in 3D

Thirteen aircraft built in code, each painted as one real airframe and checked against three-view drawings and photographs. Turn them in your hands on their aircraft pages.

Spitfire, Hurricane, Vampire, Meteor, Hunter, Lightning, Jaguar, Harrier, Canberra, Vulcan, Lancaster, B-17 and the Fokker Dr.I.
Modelled procedurally in Blender to published dimensions, compressed and served from the site itself.

September 20263 amendments

28 SepAL 10

Fourteen museums retuned

A run of reviews through late September gives museum pages the names people search by and the answers they want.

Yorkshire Air Museum answers to “York Air Museum”; BBMF Coningsby, East Fortune, Tangmere, Brooklands, Gatwick Aviation Museum and Solent Sky retitled.
The Battle of Britain Bunker and RAF Sculthorpe given opening times, tours and tickets.

22 SepAL 9

New pages

The Six-Year Sky, and a game

Special article No. 2 tells the Second World War in the air in one interactive history, and the first playable supplement arrives.

The Six-Year Sky: Blitzkrieg to the atomic missions, with the aircraft that fought it.
Voxel Front, 1944: order the raids and ride along, in voxels.
Methodology and a visit log join About and Corrections.
Aerospace Bristol’s page given Concorde 216, tickets and the Filton story.

A Heinkel He 111 over Wapping during the Blitz — The Six-Year Sky

1 SepAL 8

New pages

Ten places to watch the jets

The fly-bys guide grows to ten stations, each with its own page, maps and photographs, plus a primer on spotting military aircraft.

Military Fly-bys: the Mach Loop, the Lake District, Lakenheath, Coningsby and more.
How to Spot Military Aircraft: low-flying times, the twenty low-flying areas, the tracking apps and etiquette.

A fast jet low in the Mach Loop valley in Wales — The Mach Loop

August 20263 amendments

30 AugAL 7

HousekeepingMajor amendment

Straight dealing

A housekeeping overhaul so the site says only what it can stand behind.

Unknown addresses now return a real “Station not found” page rather than the home page.
Star ratings gathered from map services are attributed as third-party reports, never presented as the Gazetteer’s own.
Every page’s published and modified dates come from its real history.
Era codes read as words, a missing count on the Compendium fixed, and a proper logo on every page.
Filed in the record by this date: the museum pages, aircraft type pages, regional hubs, the café, parking, indoor and open-cockpit lists, free museums, the four where-to-see guides, The Best Museums, The Spitfire at 90, Plane Crazy, Who Flew First? and the share cards.
The corrections log opened the next day, 31 August.

Painted plate for the special article Who Flew First? — Special article: Who Flew First?

8 AugAL 6

Aircraft pages and the fly-bys hub

The Spitfire, Typhoon and Liberator type pages are sharpened, and the military fly-bys page becomes a hub linked from across the site.

Second pass on East Kirkby, and a tickets section for the de Havilland Aircraft Museum.
Hendon, Cornwall at War and the Lincolnshire guide refreshed.

3 AugAL 5

New pages

Where to see a Lancaster, and the regional hubs

An authoritative Lancaster guide, and every regional hub given a proper introduction and a start-here list.

Where to see a Lancaster rebuilt: PA474 at Coningsby, Just Jane at East Kirkby and the static survivors.
East Kirkby and the Bomber County guide each given their own job, linked to one another.
Regional hubs such as Scotland given richer introductions and curated lists.

Painted plate of an Avro Lancaster — Where to see: a Lancaster

July 20264 amendments

29 JulAL 4

New pages

A dated airshow calendar, and the hangars guide

The airshows page becomes a calendar of the 2026 season, month by month, and a new field guide answers the question of whether Britain has a plane graveyard.

Airshows: real dates, venues and tickets, rebuilt from data so it stays current.
New field guide: Hangars & Boneyards.
East Kirkby, Robertsbridge, Hendon, Manchester and Cornwall at War gain location, hours and question-and-answer sections; the Spitfire pages are consolidated into one guide.
Thin aircraft type pages filled out with history and where to see each one.

Aircraft on display at the Royal International Air Tattoo — Airshows, the season dated

26 JulAL 3

Museum pages say what visitors search for

The first review of how people find the site. Museum titles now lead with opening times, tickets and aircraft, and use the names people actually type.

Common names added where they differ from the official one: East Kirkby, Speke, the Manchester runway park.
Quick-win pages rewritten: Vulcan XH558, Coltishall, Upper Heyford, Fowlmere, Hardwick, Robertsbridge.
Clean addresses: /spitfire.html becomes /spitfire.

11 JulAL 2

New pagesMajor amendment

The Compendium and the first supplements

The single page becomes a site. Every aircraft type on charge gets its ledger, and the Spitfire and the Vampire get a supplement each.

The Compendium: 243 aircraft types in one chronological ledger, from 1853 to the present, with the museums that hold each one.
Supplement No. 1, The Spitfire, a biography in 24 marks; Supplement No. 2, The Vampire.
Museum inventories, painted plates and silhouettes, museum photographs, model kits, and a badge builder and embeddable widget for museums.
About, a sitemap and an llms.txt summary for AI assistants.

The Compendium opener in July 2026: 243 types on charge, seven historical eras, 1853 to 2026 — Annex A, the Compendium

The Spitfire supplement opener: a biography in twenty-four marks — Supplement No. 1

5 JulAL 1

DesignMajor amendment

First edition

AP 118 goes to press: a single page surveying 118 museums across nine regional commands, with opening times, prices and the aircraft each one keeps.

One hand-built page holding every museum record, set in the manner of an RAF Air Publication.
Served from Cloudflare’s edge as plain static files, which it still is.

The first edition of the Aviation Gazetteer: a dark olive cover with the title in stencil type, a roundel and the figures 118 museums and nine regional commands — The first edition, July 2026

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