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Royal Air Force Leuchars 85: Battle of Britain At Home Day Saturday, 7 September 1985

Library, In Storage, X005-3938

Official programme for Royal Air Force Leuchars Battle of Britain ‘At Home’ Day. Priced at 50 pence, all proceeds went to the Royal Air Force charities.

Royal Air Force Leuchars 85: Battle of Britain At Home Day Saturday, 7 September 1985 | X005-3938, Royal Air Force Museum

Royal Air Force Leuchars Battle of Britain At Home, Saturday 17 September 1955

Library, In Storage, X005-3437

One shilling programme for Royal Air Force Leuchars ‘At Home’ 1955 with a ‘lucky number’ printed on it.

Two sepia pictures of aircraft and listing of aircraft in black text. With badge in blue between the pictures, Royal Air Force Museum

RAF Leuchars At Home '86

Library, In Storage, X005-3939

Official programme for Royal Air Force Leuchars ‘At Home’ 1986. Priced at 50 pence with all proceeds to Royal Air Force charities

Aircraft against sky, white aircraft on grass. Black and white band in middle with blue white red roundel and aeroplane, Royal Air Force Museum

Royal Air Force Leuchars 'At home' day programme, Saturday, 17th September, 1960

Library, SEP 1960, In Storage, X008-5875

Programme for Royal Air Force Leuchars “At Home” Day on Saturday 17 September 1960 honouring the 20 anniversary of the Battle of Britain

Cream page with black text listing aircraft on display. With sideshows listed in box with black border, Royal Air Force Museum

Liquid Oxygen Replenishment Ground Servicing Trolley

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1961-Circa 1994, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1996/0218/V

A 75 litre capacity liquid oxygen trolley, complete with double walled transfer hose. Four rubber tyred wheels with towing/steering arm at front. Control valves at rear and dials at right hand rear. Insulated cylindrical aluminium tank at front; troughing to accommodate transfer hose above.

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Handley Page Hampden TB Mk I

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1939-04 SEP 1942, In Storage, 1994/1340/A

An RAF crew were flying this Hampden, a torpedo bomber variant, to the Soviet Union to help protect Arctic convoys, when it was shot down by German fighters on 5 September 1942.

Handley Page Hampden, RAF Museum / (c) RAF Museum/ Iain Duncan

AI 24 Foxhunter Radar

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, X005-5740

Stand-mounted, roughly circular, multi-mode, track-while-scan, pulse doppler air-intercept radar unit as fitted in nose of Tornado F.3. With rotating front scanner unit.

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Hawker Hunter FGA9

Aircraft & Exhibits, OCT 1956-OCT 1985, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1990/0698/A

The Hunter was the first high-speed jet fighter with radar and fully-powered flying controls to go into widespread service with the Royal Air Force. It was one of the most successful of the British post-war jet fighters; over 1000 were purchased by the Royal Air Force. Entering service in July 1954 it became the Royal Air Force’s standard single-seat fighter, replacing Meteor, Sabre and Venom aircraft. From 1960 Lightnings began to supersede the Hunter in Fighter Command.

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Combat report of No. 145 Squadron for 2 October 1940

Archives, In Storage, X008-5400/060/008

Combat reports were official documents detailing operational encounters with enemy aircraft. They convey both the mental strain of operations and the sense of excitement when victory claims were made.

Typescript report, Crown ©

Recorded interview with Flight Sergeant Trevor Birch, 25 August 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7420

Trevor Birch trained as an electronics engineer and worked on airfield and air defence radar and with Rapier surface-to-air missiles at various locations in the UK and the Falkland Islands.

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