Restoration Projects

Restoration going on at the museum

Hunter gets a Repaint

Hunter gets a Repaint The centrepiece at the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum must surely be the Hawker Hunter FGA.9 XG254 which sits outside the main hangar doors.  In the Spring of this year, it was decided, because it looked rather dull and dispirited, that the Paint Team would give it a new coat of paint. In April, therefore, Gwen […]

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Canberra T4 – WH840 – Restoration

Canberra T4 – WH840 Last winter’s weather caused a few problems for our English Electric Canberra T4. Several pieces of fabric parted company from the plywood covered tail fin. What, plywood on a high speed, high altitude jet bomber?   Yes on the tail fin leading edge section covering some radio equipment.   Luckily patches could be

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MIG-15 Updates

MIG-15 Updates …….. Our Mig-15 is lacking most of the interior equipment so we are pleased to have acquired by donation a complete instrument panel and an original ASP-3N gun sight for the cockpit.  Our aircraft is a Czech example and it is painted in dual Czech/Polish markings as a memorial to airmen from these countries who flew

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