Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum

Om museet

The museum grew out of the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Group, formed in 1976 to recover wreckage of aircraft from Second World War crash sites in the area. The finds needed a home, and the group opened a small museum in the former pilots' flight hut in 1977. Its first aircraft, a Vampire and a Meteor, were donated later that year.

The hut soon proved too small, and the group leased the derelict control tower of the wartime RAF Dumfries airfield, which had been used as a cattle shelter. The museum moved into the tower and opened there in 1979. Over the following decades it added aircraft and exhibits and extended the rented site. In 2013, after a large fundraising drive, the group bought the land, and further land was added in 2014. The museum became an accredited museum in 2010.

A building programme called the Big Build began in 2015, and volunteers have since put up six new buildings, including a hangar for the Loch Doon Spitfire. That aircraft was recovered from Loch Doon in 1982 and was unveiled to the public in 2018. The museum has always been run entirely by volunteers.

Højdepunkter

• Loch Doon Spitfire, a Battle of Britain veteran recovered from a loch in 1982
• Aircraft including a Lightning, a Draken, a Trident airliner and wartime assault gliders
• The only dedicated Airborne Forces collection in Scotland
• One of the finest displays of aero engines in the country
• Displays on the Home Front, RAF Dumfries and the bomber war in the former control tower
• 1940s-themed tea room and a gift shop

Permanente udstillinger

• Aircraft collection – Indoor and outdoor aircraft including a Lightning, a Draken, a Trident airliner, a Buccaneer and wartime assault gliders.
• Loch Doon Spitfire – A Spitfire Mk IIa built for the Battle of Britain and lost in a training accident at Loch Doon in 1941, later recovered and restored.
• Airborne Forces collection – The only dedicated collection on airborne forces in Scotland, with gliders and related memorabilia.

Grundlagt

1977

Ejer

Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum (registered charity SC035189)

Entrépriser & rabatter

Prices shown are standard admission. With Gift Aid the prices are 10 pounds for adults, 7 pounds for children and concessions, and 30 pounds for a family.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig: ingen oplysninger
• Elevator: ingen oplysninger
• Handicaptoilet: ingen oplysninger
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Well-behaved dogs are welcome on site.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

The museum describes itself as a great place for people of all ages and suitable for the whole family, with indoor and outdoor exhibits and plenty of space outside. A family ticket is available.

Transport & parkering

The museum is three miles from Dumfries town centre on the site of the former RAF Dumfries airfield. From the junction of the A75 and the A701, drive north on the A701 for about half a mile, turn right at the roundabout onto Tinwald Downs Road and continue for about a mile; the museum is on the left. Cyclists can follow the Caledonian Cycleway from Dumfries railway station towards Heathhall.

Service & spisesteder

• Café
• Museumsbutik

A tea room with a 1940s theme and a gift shop are on site, and there is plenty of space outdoors.

Arrangementer & udlejning

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