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Boscombe Down Aviation Collection - Main hanger

Boscombe Down Aviation Collection

4.5(2 reviews)
46.7 mi

Being an aircraft buff I ensured that this became a part of (my wife's) visit to Salisbury…read moreCathedral. It is 20-30 min by city bus from Salisbury, with the stop about 200m from the museum. A very interesting assortment of fighters and bombers including Prototype #2 of the English Electric Lightning, the first Mach 2 fighter in the world. Visitors are permitted to sit in cockpits of many of the a planes. The museum store sells Airfix model kits (remember those?!). I also noticed a shop near Salisbury Train Station that sold such model kits.

Not your typical aircraft museum! I visited with a two other guys who were 30+ and it was a great…read morevisit. Really interesting volunteers all eager to talk about anything related to the aircraft , they ranged from a retired Vulcan pilot, retired ground crew to anoraks helping restore some of the planes! Virtually everything could be touched, played with, sat in so I think this would be a great place to take kids - although you'd need to keep a close eye on them as it is a little tricky scaling ladders and getting into some of the cockpits. I really puts a different view on many of the aircraft. We also got to have a go in the Link trainer at the end of the visit which was a good fun and I assume gives you some idea of what it is like to fly (I'm not a pilot). If you are an enthusiast of have kids I'd say it was a great way to spend a couple of hours if you are passing by!

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Boscombe Down Aviation Collection - Trying to fly in the Link simulator

Trying to fly in the Link simulator

Boscombe Down Aviation Collection - Not a view you get in most museums.  I think this was the Jag cockpit.

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Not a view you get in most museums. I think this was the Jag cockpit.

Castletown D-Day Centre - museums - Updated May 2026

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