This museum incorporates themed collections for 446th Bombardment Group USAAF, RAF Bomber Command, Royal Observer Corps, No. 6 Group, Air Sea Rescue & Coastal Command. It has a surprisingly large and varied collection of aircraft and, despite mostly being kept outside in all weathers, they are mostly in remarkably good order.

They also have a staggering amoung very interesting "junk" - recovered damaged, crashed, propellers, undercarriage parts, engines, bits and pieces of this and that, several Merlin engines, some fascinating WW2 BMW engines and even parts of V2 rockets. And there are several separate sections, with all manner of memoribilia and ephemera. An outstandingly comprehensive collection of WW2 and post-war (including Falklands), hardware and memories.

Below is a selection of photos I took on a very chilly but brilliantly sunny day - 27th January 2008. I am no avaiation expert, so if you can correct or enhance the captions, please let me know through the Contact page. Thank you.

1. Gloster Javelin FAW 9R, all weather interceptor, at the entrance to Flixton Aviation Museum.

2. Dassault Mystere IV.

3. De Havilland Sea Vixen FAW Mk 1.
Thanks to Michael Chilestone for correcting my caption - it's not a Vampire.

4. FMA IA 58 Pucara, as used by the Argentine Air Force in the Falklands conflict.

5. Bristol Bloodhounds surface-to-air missile.

6. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet fighter (NATO name Fagot).

7. Interior of one of the many buildings housing a huge quantity of interesting components, models, ephemera, etc.

8. Squadron patches from Flixton, 1943-1945.

9. Map of "who and where they were" when they were "over here," all over East Anglia.

10. Sign from the 424th Air Service Group Headquarters building, from Great Ashfield, Suffolk.

11. Modern statue of an RAF Sergeant pilot with his dog.

12. The royal Observer Corps museum at Flixton.

13. The white sign to the right of the door in the photo above, indicating that the building came from RAF Woodbridge.

14. Models and paintings galore in many parts of the museum.

15. Showcase commemorating "the nuclear age" with a model Vulcan bomber.

16. English Electric Canberra T.4

17. Hawker Hunter FGA.9

18. English Electric Lightning F3, appears to be painted as the P1B prototype. It's very large!
Thanks to Michael Chilestone for correcting my caption, stating wrongly that it was a P1B.

19. North American F-100D Super Sabre, 54-2196.

20. Leaving the Flixton Aviation Museum, we pass the Gloster Javelin FAW 9R again.

Visit the website of the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum.

Visit the museum on the B1062 at Flixton, just outside Bungay, Suffolk.

Stay in self-catering accommodation just up the road, at The Old Rectory!