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Brussels Air Museum

Brussels Air Museum

Here are my photos from Brussels Air Museum. This is one of the very large collection in Europe with the samples of airplanes cover age from WW1 to the present date.

Hawker Hunter
MiG 23BN s/n 23, Mil Mi-24D s/n 96+33, Dassault MD-450 Ouragan s/n 320, Yakovlev Yak 11 s/n 1706, Mig 15bis s/n 3911, Sikorsky S-58 [...]

RAF Northolt

RAF Northolt

RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in north west Greater London, England. Approximately 10 kilometres (6 miles) north of London Heathrow Airport, it also handles a large number of private civilian flights. RAF Northolt is actually situated in neighbouring Ruislip; most early RAF airfields were named after [...]

Biggin Hill 2007

Biggin Hill 2007

The show was opened by a unique formation of Spitfire PR19, of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, and Typhoon F2 from 29Sqn, both based at Coningsby. The RAF has always given full support to the Biggin Hill Airshow. The 2007 Air Fair was a great event at all. Images bellow present following aircrafts:

Biggin Hill [...]

Blackburn Beverley C1 s/n XB259

Blackburn Beverley C1 s/n XB259

Originally designed and built by General Aircraft as the GAL.60 Universal Freighter, the first aircraft was dismantled at the Feltham, Middlesex factory and transported to Brough in Yorkshire to have its maiden flight on 1950-06-20. This was followed by a second, the GAL.65, which was modified from the original. Clamshell doors replaced a combination of [...]

Bournemouth Aviation Museum

Bournemouth Aviation Museum

Bournemouth Aviation Museum is the only UK Charitable Museum dedicated to preserving and presenting to the public at large, amongst others, operational examples of historic aircraft appreciated by the many hundreds of thousands attending UK airshows.

Bournemouth Aviation Museum
Bournemouth Aviation Museum occupies a 30,000 sq ft hanger at Bournemouth International Airport and is run entirely by [...]

Conroy CL-44-0 Guppy

Conroy CL-44-0 Guppy

The aircraft was designed by Jack Conroy as a transport aircraft that could be used to ferry three Rolls-Royce RB.211 jet engines from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Palmdale, California. The engines were to be installed on the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar Airliner.  The Skymonster is based on the Canadair CL-44 freighter (itself a derivative of the [...]

Gatwick Air Museum

Gatwick Air Museum

The Gatwick Aviation Museum is located on the boundary of London Gatwick Airport in the village of Charlwood, Surrey. Originally started in 1987 by Peter Vallance a local businessman as a private collection. It became a registered charity in 1999 with the objective of providing awareness of local aviation history and as an educational centre [...]

Air Show at Cuatro Vientos 2006

Air Show at Cuatro Vientos 2006

Air Show at Cuatro Vientos is the largest one held in the Spain and images present event held on 3rd September 2006. This is very interesting place to see very rich collection of the airplanes. Images bellow show followings airplanes:

Air Show at Cuatro Vientos 2006
Piper L-14 Cub s/n 45-55531 (EC-AAP), Bucker Bu-133c Jungmeister s/n ES.1-17 [...]

RIAT Fairford 2006

RIAT Fairford 2006

RIAT Fairford is usually held at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire which is a large base used infrequently by USAF deployments which makes it an ideal venue for such a large Airshow. On the images ellow following airplanes are presented:

RIAT Fairford 2006
Red Arrows Display Team BAe Hawks, Saab JAS 39A Gripen s/n 39138, Bell/Boeing MV-22B Osprey [...]