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United Kingdom / Scotland / Edinburgh

National Museum of Scotland

This multidisciplinary Edinburgh museum includes a Science and Technology gallery interpreting aviation alongside manufacturing, transport and innovation. An overhead sequence of aviation exhibits includes Percy Pilcher’s Hawk glider and the Beagle Auster Terrier located here in the National Museums Scotland aircraft-location catalog.

Science Technology Museum2 catalog entries2 documented aircraft/exhibitsOpen Public
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The museum

This multidisciplinary Edinburgh museum includes a Science and Technology gallery interpreting aviation alongside manufacturing, transport and innovation.

This multidisciplinary Edinburgh museum includes a Science and Technology gallery interpreting aviation alongside manufacturing, transport and innovation. An overhead sequence of aviation exhibits includes Percy Pilcher’s Hawk glider and the Beagle Auster Terrier located here in the National Museums Scotland aircraft-location catalog.

What defines the collection

An overhead sequence of aviation exhibits includes Percy Pilcher’s Hawk glider and the Beagle Auster Terrier located here in the National Museums Scotland aircraft-location catalog.

Collection focus: Indoor galleries
Indoor galleries

What to expect

Look upwards in the Making It gallery to find aircraft suspended through the multi-level display.

What the museum holds

2 documented aircraft and exhibit records

The inventory below separates what the museum or its sources say the institution holds from the smaller set of aircraft histories already connected to the Air Archive.

2Documented records
2Recorded on display
0Air Archive links
2Research sources
Collection highlights2 cataloged entries
  • Beagle Auster A.61 Terrier 1 G-ARSLOn Display · G-ARSL
  • Percy Pilcher Hawk gliderOn Display
Open full museum-listed inventory (2 entries)
AircraftStatusIdentity
Beagle Auster A.61 Terrier 1 G-ARSLOn DisplayG-ARSL
Percy Pilcher Hawk gliderOn Display—
Museum collection records are source-backed; catalog inclusion does not by itself guarantee that an airframe is currently visible to visitors.

Sources

Open 2 sources