Aviation Museums
and airworthy collections
Science Museum
Exhibition Rd, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD
Date of visit: 16th February 2014
Avro 504K
RFC D7560 (built 1917)
Cierva C.30A Autogiro
AP507 (built 1934)
Cody type V
304 BAPC.62
de Havilland DH60G GIPSY MOTH
G-AAAH 'Jason' in which Amy Johnson made her solo flight from England to Australia in 1930 (built 1928)
Fokker E.III
210 / 16 BAPC.56 (built 1915)
Gloster E.28 / 39
W4041/G (first flight 15/05/1941) developed by Frank Whittle to test the first British jet engine
HS.125 SERIES 1
G-ASSM (built 1965)
Hawker P.1127
XP831 - Prototype that first achieved a vertical takeoff on 21/10/1960
Hawker Hurricane 1
L1592 / KW-Z (built 1940)
JAP-Harding Monoplane
BAPC.54 - said to be a copy of a Bleriot monoplane and built by JA Prestwich in 1910
Levavosseur Antionette VII
BAPC.55 (built 1909)
Lilenthal glider
replica
Lockheed 10A Electra
G-LIOA (built 1935)
Messerschmitt Me163B-1a Komet
191316
Pitts S-1 Special
G-AZPH (built 1969)
Roe I Triplane
BAPC.50 (built 1909)
Royal Aircraft Factory SE5A
G-EBIB (built 1917)
Saunders-Roe Skeeter AOP.12
8018M / XN344 (built 1960)
Schempp-Hirth Cirrus
DFY
Short SC.1
XG9002 (CTOL 02/04/1957 - VTOL 26/05/1958) Britain's first fixed-wing VTOL aircraft.
Supermarine S.6B
S1595 - Designed by R J Mitchell and Schneider Trophy winner 1931
Supermarine Spitfire Mk. 1A
P9444 / RN-D (built 1940)
Vickers Vimy IV
BAPC.51 in which John Alcock & Arthur Whitten Brown made the 1st non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in June 1919 (built 1918)
Westland-Hill Pterodactyl I
J.8067 (first flight 1925) Swept wing tail-less experimental monoplane at Farnborough
Wright Flyer
replica BAPC.53
Other
The Flying Bedstead
Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig - Experimental vertical take-off / First 'free' flight 03/08/1954
Fiesler Fi.103 V-1
BAPC.199 / 442795
Airship Beta II
17
Apollo 10 Capsule
Models
SHORT S23 EMPIRE
G-ADHL
RIGID AIRSHIP R101
G-FAAW
GLOSTER I
G-EAXZ