The Jet Age Museum’s Gamecock made the short journey from Brockworth to the new museum today. The plan is to re-rig her next weekend.
More piccies on the Flickr page…. http://flic.kr/s/aHsjHQACMb
From our Facebook page…
“We closed or doors at 4pm today bringing to an end the first six weeks of our ‘preview’ openings. During that time we’ve welcomed more than 2200 visitors to the museum and raised over £7800. We’re closing for the next two weeks to bring our Gloster Gamecock and our Horsa glider cockpit to their new home and will reopen on Saturday 19th October with these two new exhibits on display.
We’re extremely grateful to everyone who has visited. We’re grateful for your kind feedback, donations and continued support and we’re catching up with those of you who have joined as members and volunteered to help – you’ll be hearing from us soon!
Above all, we need to say a MASSIVE thank you to our volunteers. You are the lifeblood of our organisation and we absolutely could not have done this without your support and passion for what we do. You should be immensely proud of what we’ve achieved and we really look forward to the next exciting phase of our history!”
It’s owned by the LAA now (Light Aircraft Association)
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=447FT
Registration does not indicate airworthiness but this is a recent issue.
We’re getting a healthy flow of visitors already and will be opening on Wednesdays too during September, 10-4.
Opening in the week at all???
David, ultimately, yes. The plan is to build up to, ideally, a seven day operation but as we are entirely voluntarily ‘staffed’ it’s going to take a while to achieve that. We’re still very much a ‘work in progress’ at present and have already had teams of volunteers doing Wednesday working groups in the run up to opening, so that is likely to be the first additional day.
The ‘official’ opening will be sometime in early 2014.
What are the opening times please?
Sat and Sun 10-4
We got the Jet Age Museum’s Javelin under cover at the weekend

17 Aug 2013 17:43 by Darren Lewington, on Flickr
The building is very nearly finished and the exhibits moved in today.
It will be great to see it hooning around low level over oil spills! Ironically, it’ll probably be belching out more pollution than it’ll be clearing up :eagerness:
Jet Age Museum’s Horsa Glider project
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jet-Age-Horsa-Glider-Project/138372533008132?ref=hl
…and the Museum’s main page…
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Jet-Age-Museum/100374323379961?ref=hl
If it’s anything like our BoB replica (Jet Age Museum) the build quality is exceptionally good. [ATTACH=CONFIG]218165[/ATTACH]
We went for something a little less subtle when we moved our new T.7!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-22256219