Museums · Scottish Lowlands
Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum
Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum — aviation museum in Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
- Nearest railway station
- Dumfries · 3.0 km
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum is a museum in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1977. Address: DG1 3PH. Wikidata describes it as: "aviation museum in Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom". Coordinates: 55.0910°, -3.5690°.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum is a volunteer-operated aviation museum located in and around the World War II-era watch tower (control tower) at the former RAF Dumfries, located two miles north east of the centre of Dumfries, Scotland, which was in service from June 1940 until 1957, when it closed. The site was sold to a private company in 1960. The museum, founded in 1977 by the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Group, has a collection of aircraft, both civil and military, aero engines, artifacts, and a small, but "ever expanding collection of memorabilia honouring airborne forces."
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Background
History
F53]] XL497]] On the night of 3/4 June 1943, a Vickers Wellington Type 440 B Mk. X bomber, HE746, of 26 OTU, RAF, was on a flight from RAF Wing near Leighton Buzzard, departing there at 2340 hrs., when it suffered a failure to one of its Bristol Hercules engines and crashed short of the runway. Three of the crew were killed and two others were seriously injured. In 1973–74 the two engines were recovered. One with its wooden propeller is exhibited in the museum. Further excavations in the following two years yielded more artefacts and in 1976 the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Group was formed to shepherd a display of these items, the obvious location for the new museum being the former RAF…
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- Coordinates
- 55.0910, -3.5690
- District
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Postcode
- DG1 3PH
- Parliamentary constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Established
- 1977
- Nearest railway station
- Dumfries — 3 km
- Official site
- www.dumfriesaviationmuseum.com
Sources
- wikidata: Q16974250 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Dunfries and Galloway Aviation Museum Lightning F53.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum?
- Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum is in the Scottish Lowlands, United Kingdom (postcode DG1 3PH).
- When was Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum built?
- Built or established in 1977.
- How do I get to Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum?
- The nearest railway station is Dumfries, about 3.0 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode DG1 3PH.