Wight Aviation Museum Grand Opening April 2022
Wight Aviation Museum invite you to attend our “Grand Opening” on Saturday 9th April and Sunday 10th April at 11:00.
We have all been working very hard over the last year or so and now we have reached the point where we are confident that we have a “viable” and “interesting” museum!
We hope that you will be able to join us for this opening event and look forward to meeting you then.
This is an open invitation. Everyone is welcome.
Black Arrow arrival at Wight Aviation Museum, Sandown Airport 13 July 2018
The replica of the Black Arrow has arrived at Wight Aviation Museum (WAM), minus the red ‘nose’ cone.
This is currently being manufactured on the Isle of Wight. When completed it will make the road journey to Sandown Airport to finish the rocket assembly.
It will then be situated outside the museum as a distinctive sentinel, visible to all who arrive at the airfield.
There will be no mistaking the location of WAM amongst all the other hangars!
Alfred Buckham – The Sky Traveller exhibition at Dimbola Lodge, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
Go to the Notice Board for more details about organised tours from the mainland to aviation sites around the Island, including an opportunity to see the Black Arrow.
If you are already on the Isle of Wight then go to Wight Aviation Museum page for contact details of how to visit WAM.
Also on the updated Notice Board is news of events this Autumn including a fabulous photography exhibition in Freshwater, Isle of Wight. Vintage aviation images taken by Alfred Buckham are absolute gems of history, capturing a moment in time that has gone forever.
Buckham wanted to be an artist, until he saw pictures by JMW Turner. Alfred went home and destroyed his own paintings. He took up a camera instead. What he produced through his lens is of equal artistry to Turner. The SKY TRAVELLER is not to be missed.
Also listed are details about a talk by a pilot with HM Coast Guard SAR Helicopter based at Lee-on-the-Solent.
What of the big event anticipated for 2019 – D-Day 75?
News that Government funding won’t be made available for Portsmouth, to stage a major event next June around the Southsea D-Day Museum, has come as a blow to Portsmouth councillors.
Bombed out but NEVER beaten !!! Southwick D-Day Revival showing the British Spirit. Copyright Anne Grant.
If this leaves plans for Pompey somewhat up in the air, the Southwick Revival stalwarts over the Portsdown Hill are almost guaranteed to put on something even bigger and better than their D-Day 2018 weekend. They won’t be beaten.
As the lady in this photo chalked onto her blackboard propped up under the green door of her Anderson shelter, ‘Bombed out but NEVER beaten !!!’ That’s the spirit, girl!
Go to the Notice Board for a review of what Southwick 2018 did to entertain and educate the crowds.
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