Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum
Excerpt
Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum sits in the former RAF Dumfries control tower at Heathhall Industrial Estate, Dumfries DG1 3PH. Run by volunteers, it preserves the region’s aviation heritage through indoor and outdoor displays of aircraft, engines and memorabilia. Facilities include a small café and gift shop, free on-site parking, accessible ramps and toilets, baby-change, […]
Features
- aero engines gallery
- Airborne Forces gallery
- Auster AOP series
- Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B (cockpit)
- Bomber War gallery
- Bristol Sycamore
- CG-4A Waco glider
- control-tower operations room diorama
- Dassault Mystère IVA
- English Electric Canberra T.4 (cockpit)
- English Electric Lightning F.53 ZF584
- Fairey Gannet AEW.3
- Gloster Meteor T.7
- Hawker Hunter F.Mk.2
- Home Front domestic mock-up
- Horsa glider sections
- Jet Provost T.4
- Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star
- North American F-100 Super Sabre
- personal letters and artefacts.
- Rotabuggy replica
- Rotachute
- Saab J 35A Draken
- Saunders-Roe Skeeter
- Spitfire cockpit walkthrough
- Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIa (Loch Doon)
- Taylorcraft Auster
- Westland Wessex HU.5
Description
Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum sits in the former RAF Dumfries control tower at Heathhall Industrial Estate, Dumfries DG1 3PH. Run by volunteers, it preserves the region’s aviation heritage through indoor and outdoor displays of aircraft, engines and memorabilia. Facilities include a small café and gift shop, free on-site parking, accessible ramps and toilets, baby-change, induction-loop assistance and seating areas. Guided tours and cockpit walkthroughs are available on request.
Special exhibits highlight a Battle-of-Britain-veteran Loch Doon Spitfire Mk II (P7540) recovered from Loch Doon, Scotland’s only supersonic English Electric Lightning F.53, the wartime assault-glider collection (Horsa and CG-4A Waco), plus dedicated Home Front, RAF Dumfries and Bomber War galleries, and Scotland’s only Airborne Forces display.
Photo credit: James Johnston
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Contact Info
- 01387251623
- www.dumfriesaviationmuseum.com
- Former Control Tower, Heathhall Industrial Estate, Tinwald Downs Rd, Dumfries DG1 3PH