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Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum

At Flixton, volunteers preserve East Anglia’s aviation history and the legacy of RAF Bungay and the American 446th Bomb Group. Its galleries connect coastal defence, air-sea rescue and the bomber offensive with preserved Cold War aircraft and locally significant airframes. Collections: East Anglian wartime airfields; USAAF 446th Bomb Group; Cold War jets, gliders and cockpit-section conservation. Visitor planning: The museum operates on selected days, not seven days per week. Its 2014 history noted 66 aircraft and cockpits, which is not treated as a 2026 collection count. The selected current aircraft below come from its outdoor and Hangar 1 listings; cockpit recreations are not complete aircraft. Listed exhibits reflect the cited catalogue or historical evidence, not guaranteed current access. The roster distinguishes full aircraft from replicas, restoration work, and cockpit sections. Research-only institutions will not be published until operating access is established.

Aviation Museum35 documented aircraft/exhibitsOpen Public
Museum-specific photograph from the official website of Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum
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The museum

At Flixton, volunteers preserve East Anglia’s aviation history and the legacy of RAF Bungay and the American 446th Bomb Group. Its galleries connect coastal defence, air-sea rescue and the bomber offensive with preserved Cold War aircraft and locally significant airframes.

At Flixton, volunteers preserve East Anglia’s aviation history and the legacy of RAF Bungay and the American 446th Bomb Group. Its galleries connect coastal defence, air-sea rescue and the bomber offensive with preserved Cold War aircraft and locally significant airframes.

Collections: East Anglian wartime airfields; USAAF 446th Bomb Group; Cold War jets, gliders and cockpit-section conservation.

Visitor planning: The museum operates on selected days, not seven days per week. Its 2014 history noted 66 aircraft and cockpits, which is not treated as a 2026 collection count. The selected current aircraft below come from its outdoor and Hangar 1 listings; cockpit recreations are not complete aircraft.

Listed exhibits reflect the cited catalogue or historical evidence, not guaranteed current access. The roster distinguishes full aircraft from replicas, restoration work, and cockpit sections. Research-only institutions will not be published until operating access is established.

What defines the collection

East Anglian wartime airfields; USAAF 446th Bomb Group; Cold War jets, gliders and cockpit-section conservation.

Collection focus: Cold War · Indoor galleries · Military aviation · Modern aviation · Outdoor collection · Second World War
Cold WarIndoor galleriesMilitary aviationModern aviationOutdoor collectionSecond World War

What to expect

The museum operates on selected days, not seven days per week. Its 2014 history noted 66 aircraft and cockpits, which is not treated as a 2026 collection count. The selected current aircraft below come from its outdoor and Hangar 1 listings; cockpit recreations are not complete aircraft.

What the museum holds

35 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.

35Documented records
35Recorded on display
6Air Archive links
4Research sources
Collection highlights35 cataloged entries
Open full museum-listed inventory (35 entries)
AircraftStatusIdentity
Antonov C.14 hang gliderOn Display—
Avro Shackleton MR.3/3 WR971On DisplayWR971
Dassault Mystère IVA [79/2-EG]On Display79/2-EG
de Havilland Mosquito
de Havilland Mosquito night-fighter cockpit mockup
On Display—
de Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.1 [XJ482]On DisplayXJ482
de Havilland Vampire T.11 [XK624]On DisplayXK624
English Electric Canberra B(I).8 [XM279]On DisplayXM279
English Electric Canberra B.2/6 [WG789]On DisplayWG789
English Electric Canberra PR.3 cockpit recreation [WE168]On DisplayWE168
English Electric Canberra T.4 [WH840]On DisplayWH840
English Electric Lightning DB/F.1 [XG329]On DisplayXG329
English Electric Lightning F.3 cockpit [XP473]On DisplayXP473
FMA IA-58A Pucará [A-528]On DisplayA-528
Fokker F27-200 Friendship cockpit [G-BDVS]On DisplayG-BDVS
Folland Gnat T.1 cockpit procedures trainerOn Display—
Gloster Javelin FAW.9R XH892On Display—
Gloster Meteor
Gloster Meteor F(TT).8 WF643
On Display—
Hawker Hunter
Hawker Hunter FGA.9 XG254
On Display—
Hawker Hunter
Hawker Hunter T.12 / T.53 cockpit [XE531 / ET272]
On DisplayXE531 / ET272
Hawker Sea Hawk FGA.6 cockpit [WV838]On DisplayWV838
Haynes Wasp 4 hang gliderOn Display—
Hunting Jet Provost T.3A XN500On Display—
Hunting Percival Sea Prince T.1 [WF128]On DisplayWF128
Kiceniuk Icarus II hang gliderOn Display—
Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star 55-443On Display55-443
McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.2 [XV497]On DisplayXV497
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis [623794]
On Display623794
North American F-100 Super Sabre
North American F-100D Super Sabre 54-2196
On Display54-2196
North American T-28C Trojan FG289On Display—
Percival Provost T.1 [WV605]On DisplayWV605
SEPECAT Jaguar GR.1B [XX108]On DisplayXX108
Solo Striker microlight [G-MTFK]On DisplayG-MTFK
Supermarine Spitfire
Supermarine Spitfire L.F.XVIe original skin and components [TD248]
On DisplayTD248
Vickers Valetta C.2 [VX580]On DisplayVX580
Westland Whirlwind HAR.10 [XR485]On DisplayXR485
Museum collection records are source-backed; catalog inclusion does not by itself guarantee that an airframe is currently visible to visitors.

Aircraft histories connected to this museum

Sources

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