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The museum collections have expanded into one of the most important in the UK, covering all aspects of aviation including military, civil and recreational. The museum is significant in that it is the only UK national museum still collecting the history of commercial aviation. This resulted in the
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Additional permanent exhibitions were opened in recent years in other wartime buildings on the site, with a hands-on interactive gallery about flight called "Fantastic Flight" and another dealing with the history of the site called "Fortunes of War". There is also a restored parachute packing
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This is the main display hangar and contains "The Concorde Experience" and "The Jet Age" exhibitions. "The Concorde Experience" includes a walk-through and around the aircraft (with an accompanying audio guide available), an audio-visual presentation about the history of
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cockpit. Visitors are able to walk through the 1-11 and 707 and look into the flight deck of the Trident. This is in addition to walking through the de Havilland Comet and Jetstream 31 fuselage which were already in the museum collections.
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engines, aircraft seats and numerous small objects. "The Jet Age" includes a stack of engines, showing the development of the jet engine and how this drove the growth of commercial aviation. The engines displayed here are a
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This hangar is not always open to visitors, however tours are offered by the museum regularly and contains many aircraft either in storage or receiving conservation work. Aircraft currently in storage include a
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The museum holds an annual air show every July, usually on the third Saturday of the month. The airshow on 25 July 2015 was the eighteenth to be held. Other events are run throughout the year. These include
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The museum expanded significantly in 1981 as a result of the sale by auction of much of the Strathallan Collection of aircraft. The museum purchased five aircraft (
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In addition the museum has a large collection of hang-gliders, microlights and sailplanes, but most of these are not currently on display.
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million project, completed in 2016, installed heating and insulation for the first time to two hangars that were built in 1940.
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Storer, JD (1983). "The Founding of the Museum of Flight", in Bunyan, IT, Storer, JD and Thompson, CL (1983).
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building, called "The Parachute Store". Other buildings house various exhibits including a
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which is a well preserved World War II airfield. As a result of this the entire site is a
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in 1984. Another significant expansion took place with the donation of much of the
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on 1 July 1999 to commemorate the opening of the Parliament for the first time.
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Collection of aircraft in 2006. This collection was previously displayed at the
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aircraft, and was one of 9 planes flown in formation with a Concorde over the
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A list of the aircraft in the collection is given on the museum website. The
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The rest of the collections, only some of which are on display, include:
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Aircraft on display include many with Scottish connections, such as the
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Aero S-103 (613677), Czechoslovakian licence-built version of the
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fuselage section on display from April 2010, with a collection of
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East Fortune: Museum of Flight and History of the Airfield
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rocket+powered fighter (191659), the fastest aircraft of
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in the colours of the Scottish Air Ambulance Service, A
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NF.14 (G-ARCX), operated by the Ferranti Flying Unit at
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the following year. The 1981 temporary exhibition was
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with no permanent structures added by the museum. The
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livery, the centrepiece of "The Jet Age" exhibition
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National Museum of Flight is located in Scotland
East Fortune
Scotland
UK
Coordinates
55°59′42″N 2°43′23″W / 55.995°N 2.723°W / 55.995; -2.723
Aviation museum
www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-flight
aviation museum
East Fortune
Scotland
National Museums Scotland
RAF East Fortune
scheduled monument
hangars
control tower
listed buildings
Historic Scotland

Royal Scottish Museum
Percy Pilcher
Blériot XI
Orville Wright
Slingsby Gull
sailplane
Supermarine Spitfire
Hawker Sea Hawk
de Havilland Sea Vampire
de Havilland Sea Venom

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