Caernarfon Air Museum, North Wales
- by Bernd Kronmueller
- 2017-05-12
- 11 media
- 11 available
Caernarfon Airworld
It might not look like much but it is a local attraction.
Outside view
Sadly this exhibit is gone as it fell apart in a recent storm.
Rescue helicopter
A XJ 726 Westland Whirlwind HAR.10 build in January 1956
Overview inside
Crammed full of planes, engines and plane/flight related paraphernalia.
Hunter F1 cockpit
Served with 54 Sqn - one of the ten remaining F1s
Vickers Varsity cockpit
Trainer/simulator used in RAF Valley during the 60's and 70's
Hawker Harrier T2 and Slingsby Kirby Cadet (up) training glider (1950-70)
Helicopter Bristol Type 171 Sycamore cockpit - what is left of it. Introduced about 1950
Hawker Sea Hawk FB5
520 aircraft were build - this is one of the 5 survivors of the FB5
de Havilland Vampire T11
First flight 1943 with a - at the time new jet propulsion engine
Vampire cockpit