Kent Battle of Britain Museum
Hawkinge, Kent
July 2025
A brief report from a museum which is located near to Dover in Kent on the former Battle of Britain RAF Hawkinge airfield. The site is small and there are a number of replica World War Two fighter aircraft which I did not care to photograph. The main building houses containing they say, "the worlds largest Battle of Britain collection of memorabilia, artefacts from over 700 crashed aircraft on display", which are not to be photographed. I was only aloud to photograph the aircraft outside but only with a guide, which was actually a good thing.
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CASA 2-111 B (B.2I-103) ex Ejército del Aire.
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Left to right: CASA 2-111B (B.2I-103) ex Ejército del Aire. A medium bomber built in 1952 derived from the Heinkel He 111 and produced in Spain under licence by Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA). Originally imported by Old Flying Machine Co. to be restored to flying condition. It has been the gate guard at Tablada Air Base, Seville. It has been fitted with the tail of CASA 2-111B (B.2I-27). It is painted in World War Two Luftwaffe 'A1+DA' scheme.

Fieseler Fi 156C-7 Storch 'Stork' (475081 'GM+AK' later AM.101, VP546 and 7362M). Designed in 1935 the Storch was able to fulfil a variety of roles due to its incredible Short-Take-Off and Landing (STOL) capabilities. 2,549 examples were built in Germany, Czechoslovakia and France. This particular example was built by Mraz in Czechoslovakia and was captured in 1945. Shipped back to Farnborough it was test flown until 1955 before being shipped to Halton. It emerged from storage at various locations to be put on display at St Athan in 1973, before it was moved to Cosford in 1989. By October 2023 it was to be found in the Michael Beetham Conservation Centre (MBCC) beside the museum. It arrived here in June 2025.
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Left to right: Bristol Bolingbroke (composite) former Royal Canadian Air Force, marked as L9446 'LA-N'. Previously at IWM Museum Duxford.
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Left to right: CASA 352L (T.2B-272 later marked 'G-AFAP') ex Ejército del Aire. After World War Two German designed Ju 52 was built under licence by Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA as the CASA 352 and 352L for the Spanish Air Force. Built in 1954 at Getafe it was one of 170 built. It was retired in 1972. Purchased by the RAF Museum in 1977 and flown to the UK in 1978 and painted in fictitious British Airways markings due to their sponsorship. Previously on display at RAF Museum Cosford, it was dismantled in November 2022 for transfer to Hawkinge. The RAF Museum had to call on Spanish technicians who came to assist with the removal of the wings.