RAF Cosford Air Museum

[Officer Dibley]

Visited the museum at RAF Cosford on my way to Wales. Great free-to-enter musem (you pay to park only).
Excellent aircraft displays including a large hangar for Cold War displays.
The lighting and aspects weren’t great for photographs but here’s a few.
I recommend a visit if you are in the area.

Me109

Boulton Paul Defiant

Gloster Gladiator

Focke Wulf 190

Sopwith Pup

Junkers Ju88

Me 410

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Avro Lincoln

Me 262

Me 163

 

[Lorenzo_l]

Visited the museum at RAF Cosford on my way to Wales. Great free-to-enter musem (you pay to park only).
Excellent aircraft displays including a large hangar for Cold War displays.
The lighting and aspects weren’t great for photographs but here’s a few.
I recommend a visit if you are in the area.

Me109
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Boulton Paul Defiant
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Gloster Gladiator
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Kocke Wulf
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Sopwith Pup
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Junkers Ju88
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Me 410
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Avro Lincoln
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Me 262
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Me 163
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Hi Dave,

Thanks for sharing the pictures. When I visited the museum at RAF Cosford, it was like a pilgrimage. Many of the iconic WWII aircraft that I grew looking at pictures of and reading about were there, and then some. Where can one see, up close, British BoB veteran aircraft together with some of the axis aircraft they fought such as a Ju-87 (one of only two suriving Stukas), a Ju-88, an Me-262, a Me-163, a wonderfully-preserved Me-109G and an Me-410? I spent a whole day there and only got to see about half of the exhibits! And it's free admittance, to boot. A gem of a museum. I have got to go there again and check out the other half!

 

[B-Man2]

Dave
Great photos thanks for posting.
I know I’ll probably never have the opportunity to visit this museum, and by posting them you’ve given me a chance to see some of the things there I could never have seen otherwise .
Cheers

 

[Officer Dibley]

Or if you ever do make it over here Burt ....See it as more incentive. A week here would give you time to see RAF Museum at Hendon, Cosford, Duxford, several control tower museums and if timed right, an air show or two. Myself and i’m sure a few others would be your guides
Dave

 

[Grant]

So cool! Are any of the aircraft still in flyable condition?

 

[Officer Dibley]

No Grant. Some were flown in back in the day. I think the runway is now civil private light airframes only.
Another great museum that has air shows is the Shuttleworth Collection

Shuttleworth

Visit this awe-inspiring Collection of historic aircraft and vehicles from the 1930s. Be captivated by incredible aircraft in flight on an airshow day. Discover the sanctuary of our Swiss Garden, inspired by the 1820s craze for all things alpine.

www.shuttleworth.org