Aerospace

Bournemouth Aviation Museum

Bournemouth aviation museum

Features

  • adjacent café
  • aero engines display (Orpheus
  • airport fire engine
  • Avon
  • Avro Vulcan nose section
  • BAC One‑Eleven forward fuselage
  • Boeing 737‑200 “Spirit of Peter Bath” exhibit
  • Cessna 172‑based flight simulator with instructor
  • control tower exhibit
  • Daimler‑Benz DB 601
  • de Havilland Vampire
  • double‑decker bus
  • English Electric Canberra nose section
  • English Electric Lightning nose section
  • free onsite parking ([aviationmuseum.eu][1]). [1]: https://www.aviationmuseum.eu/Blogvorm/bournemouth-aviation-museum/?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Bournemouth Aviation Museum – AviationMuseum"
  • gift/souvenir shop
  • Gloster Meteor
  • Griffon
  • Hawker Hunter
  • Jumo 211)
  • model aircraft exhibition
  • Nene
  • North American Harvard
  • open cockpits for visitor access
  • Percival Provost
  • picnic area with runway views
  • refurbishment/restoration workshops
  • SEPECAT Jaguar
  • Vickers Vanguard & Viscount cockpits
  • Viper
  • volunteer‑led guided talks
  • Westland Wessex helicopter

Description

The Bournemouth Aviation Museum is a volunteer-run, hands-on museum adjacent to Bournemouth Airport, featuring a diverse collection of over 40 aircraft that visitors can explore up close—including the English Electric Lightning, Avro Vulcan, English Electric Canberra, Hawker Hunter and Westland Wessex Helicopter.

The museum’s flight simulator replicates a Cessna 172 cockpit, complete with volunteer instructors guiding guests through takeoff and landing.

Facilities include free parking (registration on arrival), outdoor picnic areas and seating, a gift shop offering toys, books, scale models and aircraft instruments, and the Spitfire Café serving tea, coffee, cakes, ice cream and cold drinks from 11 am on weekends and school holidays. Open daily year-round (last admission one hour before closing), admission is £10 for adults, £5 for children aged 3–16, and free for under 3s; annual memberships allow unlimited visits.

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B3073 Merritown Ln, Christchurch BH23 6BA

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