Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum
RNAS Yeovilton
2018 to 2023
Hall 1
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Left to right: Sopwith Baby (N2078) composite aircraft using parts of 8214 and 8215, it is inscribed 'The Jabberwok'.
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Left to right: Westland Dragonfly HR.5 (WN493).
Short S184 (8359). Built 1916 it was the first aircraft to take part in a naval battle, when it was used to find the German Fleet before the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
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Left to right: Supermarine Walrus I (L2301).
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Left to right: Westland Lynx HAS.3 (XZ699), it was no longer on display by 2014.
Westland Wessex HU.5 (XS508), it was no longer on display by 2014.
Westland Sea King HAS.6 (XV663 '18').
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Left to right: Westland Wessex HU.5 (XT765 'WJ') it was with 845 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy based at RNAS Yeovilton.
Westland Wessex HAS.3 (XP142) named 'Humphrey' it was one of the most famous aircraft of the Falklands Conflict when stationed aboard the destroyer HMS Antrim when it attacked the Argentinean submarine, Santa Fe which was subsequently abandoned.

Hall 2
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Left to right: Grumman Martlet (AL246).
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Left to right: Grumman Martlet (AL246).
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Left to right: Fairey Fulmar (N1854).
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Left to right: North American Harvard III (EX976).
Focke Achgelis FA330A-1 (100545). It was designed as an unpowered autogyro kite for use as an observation platform for German U-Boats. It was designed by Heinrich Focke, testing of the type began in mid-1942, and operational deployment began in early 1943, with some 200 built.
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Left to right: Fairey Swordfish II (HS618 painted as 'P4139').
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Left to right: Hawker Sea Fury FB.11(WJ231 'O-115').
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Left to right: Grumman Corsair Mk.IV (KD431 'EZ-S' / 'E2-M'). Built by Goodyear in August 1944 as an FG-1A with serial 14862, it was transferred to the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm under the lend lease program. Following retirement from service in 1946 KD431 was given to the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield as an instructional airframe. Acquired by the Historical Aircraft Preservation Society in 1963 it was transferred to the Fleet Air Arm Museum at RNAS Yeovilton. It was given a complete repaint over the original paint before it was put on display. In 1999 it was decided to remove the paint applied in 1963. By 2005 the paint had been removed to reveal the original wartime markings.
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Left to right: Grumman Hellcat II (KE209). Delivered to Royal Navy in 1945. To FAAM in 1970.
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Left to right: Grumman Avenger ECM6B (XB446) To Royal Navy in 1953 for conversion to ECM6B. Grounded in 1963 to FAAM in 1969.
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Left to right: de Havilland Sea Vampire (LZ551/C).
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Left to right: Dragonfly (WN493).
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Left to right: LIM2 (MIG 15 copy) (01420 registered G-BMZF).

Hall 3 Aircraft Carrier
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Left to right: McDonnell Phantom FG.1 (XT596) ex Royal Navy, this was the YF-4K prototype.
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Left to right: McDonnell Phantom FG.1 (XT596).
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Left to right: Sea Harrier F/A.2 (XZ499 '003') ex Royal Navy.
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Left to right: Blackburn Buccaneer S.1 (XN957 'LM-630') ex Royal Navy.
Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.2B (XV333 'H-234') ex Royal Navy, it was no longer on display by 2014.
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Left to right: Vickers Supermarine Attacker F.1 (WA473 'J-102') ex Royal Navy.
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Left to right: Westland Wyvern TF1 (VR137). Built at Yeovil in 1947 it was not flown but transferred to the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield as a training aid in 1950. To the FAA Museum in 1966. Moved to the Reserve Collection at Cobham Hall Store in 2012 before going on display in 2014.
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Left to right: Supermarine Seafire F Mk.7 (SX137). Built at Yeovil by Westland Aircraft in 1945.
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Left to right: de Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.2 (XS590 'E-131') ex Royal Navy.
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Left to right: Westland Wessex HU.5 (XT482 'VL Z-M') ex Royal Navy.
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Left to right: Vickers Supermarine Scimitar F.1 (XD317 'R-112') ex Royal Navy, it was no longer on display by 2014.
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Left to right: Hawker Seahawk FGA.6 (WV856) ex Royal Navy, it was no longer on display by 2014.
de Havilland Sea Venom FAW.22 (WW138 'Z-227') ex Royal Navy, it was no longer on display by 2014.
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Left to right: Fairey Gannet COD.4 (XA466 'LM-777') ex Royal Navy, it was no longer on display by 2014.

Hall 4
Hall 4
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Sea Harrier FRS.1 (XZ493 'N-001').
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Left to right: British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS.1 (XZ493 'N-001').
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Left to right: British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS.1 (XZ493 'N-001').
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Left to right: Hawker P1127 (XP980).
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Left to right: BAe Harrier GR.9A (ZD433 '45A').
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Left to right: Handley Page HP.115 (XP841), no longer on display by November 2023.
Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde (G-BSST).
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Left to right: British Aircraft Corporation 221 (WG774). This was the first prototype it had been modified to become the BAC 221 (originally it was the Fairey Delta 2) by the British Aircraft Corporation, who took over Fairey in 1960, for flight testing as part of the Concorde development program.
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Left to right: Sea King HC.4 (ZA298 'Y').
Westland Lynx HAS.3GMS (XZ720 '410') HMS Gloucester.

Images taken from inside the museum of the Royal Navy Wildcat HMA.2 ramp.
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Wildcat HMA.2s (ZZ380 and ZZ530) with 815 NAS Royal Navy.
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Left to right: Wildcat HMA.2s (ZZ380 and ZZ530) with 815 NAS Royal Navy.
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Left to right: Wildcat HMA.2s (ZZ380 and ZZ533) with 815 NAS Royal Navy.