Elliotts of Newbury (EoN) Olympia 465 Phase 2 (Type B) |
465 |
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Wooden single-seat standard class glider. The 460 series was first flown in 1960 and two 465s were built, with reclined seat and reduced wingspan, for the 1965 World Gliding Championships: the last aircraft designed and built by EoN before Slingsby took them over. |
Elliotts of Newbury (EoN) Primary Trainer |
G-ALMN BGA589 |
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Copy of the DFS SG38 Schulgleiter: 80 produced from 1948 for clubs and for the Combined Cadet Force as the Eton TX1. |
Fairey Gannet T5 |
XG883 |
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First flight in 1957 from Northolt, retired 1970. |
Fairey Jet Gyrodyne |
XJ389 |
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Modified from the Gyrodyne G-AJJP to test the tip jet system to be used on the Rotodyne. One engine in the fuselage drove the two pusher propellors and a compressor for the jets. First flight 1954, ceased when Rotodyne testing started in 1957. |
Goodwin JG3 midget racer |
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Racer designed for the 1964 Rollason contest won by the Luton Beta. Never completed. |
Handley Page HPR7 Dart Herald 100 |
G-APWA |
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First production Dart Herald, first flew in 1959, used as a company demonstrator and for leasing to various operators. Made sales tours to Africa and South America, and a royal tour to South America in 1962, with Prince Philip as captain for 99 hours. |
Miles M14A Hawk Trainer 3 (Magister) replica |
'L6906' BAPC.044 |
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Constructed over 12 years, incorporating parts from T9841, which became G-AKKY, withdrawn from use in 1964. |
Miles M25 Martinet TT1 |
TF-SHC MS902 |
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The first British aircraft designed as a target tug. 1,724 were built. MS902 was delivered to RAF Iceland in 1943. In 1949 it was sold to a flying club, crashed in a remote area in 1951, and recovered in 1977. The museum restored the wreckage - the sole surviving Martinet. |
Miles M52 research model |
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Supersonic jet research project first mooted in 1942 and cancelled in 1946. Data was thnn shared with Bell who went on to develop the X-1. |
Miles M60 Mk1A Marathon fuselage section |
G-AMGW |
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AKA Handley Page (Reading) HPR.1 Marathon 1. Went to Nigeria for a while as VR-NAN and returned to Derby Airways in 1955, withdrawn in 1960. |
Miles M100 Student |
G-MIOO |
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Sole example: starting as Mk1 G-APLK in 1957, it was developed as a Mk2 for counter-insurgency operations as XS941. When that was rejected, it was civilianised as G-MIOO, damaged in a crash in 1985 and is being restored. |
Westland Scout AH1 |
XP849 |
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British Army/ETPS. Damaged in 1997, became G-CBUH, came to the museum in 2010, but was registered as ZK-HQU in 2011. |