Wattisham Airfield Museum

If you’re in the Suffolk area on a Sunday afternoon, it maybe worth your while travelling over to the Wattisham Airfield Museum. The museum can be opened at other times by appointment. We are now in the process of adding a Gazelle helicopter, and this should hopefully be ready in the next couple of months.

Wattisham celebrates 70 years of operations next year, and there’s been plenty happen at the base in that time. Bristol Blenheim’s of 107 and 110 Squadrons carried out the first raids of the war, P-38J’s of the 479th FG “Riddles Raiders” flew from the base from 1944 and can count Hub Zemke and Robin Olds as major players of that era. During the Cold War, the RAF stood guard over UK skies, and often scrambled QRA Lightings and Phantoms from the Q sheds, and today 3 & 4 Regiments are often deployed to support ground forces in Afghanistan.

There are lots of very interesting bits and pieces in the museum, from the early Blenheim era, into the USAAF’s stay from 42, right through the Cold War and today’s operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Many have fond memories of the base hanging out by the crash gate as 74 Sqn taxied past. Come and re-live some of those memories by visiting Wattisham Airfield Museum soon!

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