City of Norwich Aviation Museum

Was going to a mates in Ely for the night yesterday, so during the day went over to Norwich as always wanted to have a look at the museum there. Tried to get the bus to Horsham St Faith and then walk the rest, but asked on the bus and apparently it didn’t go there! Ended up getting a taxi there and back, £12 each way wasn’t that bad.

Great aircraft on display, unfortunately the low and very bright winter sun made photography difficult, especially with shadows. Corgi models were cheap as well, was very tempted by a £15 Jag!

Frazer Nash turret, believed to be from a Lancaster or Wellington

Rolls Royce Gnome engine, which powered the later Whirlwinds, and Wessexs among others (Sea King as well I think)

HP Herald – bought for only a pound (wonder if anyone would flog me a Whirlwind for that 😆 )!

Homebuilt Evans PV2 Volksplane G-BTAZ, believed to have never flown

Hunter F.51 in RAF colours

Lockheed T-33

Very nice Meteor F8

Line up of three generations of British jet fighters

Avro Vulcan – one of the reserve aircraft for the ‘Black Buck’ missions. A mate of mine was in the marines, he said it was the noise of the Vulcans more than the actual bombing that scared him!

The sun made it hard to get a picture of the Whirlwind, but I quite like this one. In the colours it wore when based at RAF Coltishall with 22 Squadron 1965-69

Nice Lightning in Saudi Arabian colours

Meatbox and Cranberry

Out the front of the museum there were four cockpits – the Phantom, two Lightnings (one a proper front section, the other was just the cockpit with a bit of the top of the fuselage), and a Buccaneer. Haven’t seen these listed anywhere before, are these ex-Coltishall?

Also there was a two seat Hunter cockpit in raspberry ripple colours on a trailer, which I later saw driving towards Norwich, no idea if it was being collected from the museum or just visiting, anyone know which one it was?

As well as those pictures, there was also a Mystere, Fokker F27, Scimitar procedures trainer cockpit section, the Shackleton T4 nose ex-MAM, Cessna 401, and the fuselage frame of something very small and probably home built.