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Supermarine Stranraer 920/CF-BXO
Aircraft & Exhibits, NOV 1940-AUG 1966, London, Hangar Three/Four, 70/A/645
The Stranraer was the final development of the Southampton flying boat to be put into production and was one of the world’s last biplane flying boats. The Museum's example served in Canada during the Second World War.
Heinkel He 111
Aircraft & Exhibits, 1944-1947, London, Hangar Five, 78/A/1033
The Heinkel He 111, a German twin-engined medium bomber, was used extensively in the late 1930s and early years of the Second World War. Like many Luftwaffe military aircraft, its development was concealed by claiming it was for high-speed commercial transport.
Avro York Mk I
Aircraft & Exhibits, OCT 1945-OCT 1964, Cosford, Hangar Four, 75/A/725
Manufactured by Avro and incorporating the wings, tail, undercarriage and engines of the Lancaster bomber, the York was to prove a useful military and civilian transport aircraft in war and peace.
Handley Page Hastings T.5
Aircraft & Exhibits, MAR 1948-AUG 1977, Cosford, Hangar Four, 85/A/9
The Handley Page Hastings replaced the Avro York as the Royal Air Force’s standard long-range transport from 1948. Two squadrons of the new aircraft served alongside the Avro York throughout the Berlin Airlift, flying vital supplies into the city during the Soviet blockade.
Viking Mk.Ib
Library, NOV 1950, In Storage, X004-7332
Aircraft recognition poster of a Vickers Viking. Air Diagram number AD4672, issue 1, sheet 1, November 1950.
C-47 Dakota
Library, JAN 1951, In Storage, X004-7331
Aircraft recognition poster of a Douglas C-47 Dakota. Air Diagram number AD4670, issue 1, sheet 1, January 1951.
Aircraft Recognition Chart: Crate
Library, APR 1956, In Storage, X004-7336
Aircraft recognition poster of an Ilyushin Il-14. Air Diagram number AD6603, issue 1, sheet 1, May 1956.
Aircraft Recognition Chart: C-130A Hercules
Library, JUL 1956, In Storage, X004-7337
Aircraft recognition poster of a Lockheed C-130A Hercules. Air Diagram number AD6615, issue 1, sheet 1, July 1956.
Lockheed Hercules C3
Aircraft & Exhibits, AUG 1967-AUG 2011, Cosford, External Display, X005-5969
First flown as a prototype for the United States Air Force in August 1954, the C-130 Hercules, as a troop transport, disaster relief and aerial tanker aircraft has been a mainstay of the RAF transport fleet since the late 1960s (along with those of many other air forces); it has seen extensive operational use including the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Short Belfast C.1
Aircraft & Exhibits, JAN 1967-OCT 1978, Cosford, Hangar Four, 78/A/1122
Design of this long-range, strategic transport aircraft began in February 1959, with the first flight in January 1964. Only ten of the originally ordered thirty Belfasts were built, all for the RAF.
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