Here’s all the latest news from Wings Aviation Museum
- Some late breaking news! Complete Consolidated B-24 Bomber Engine Nacelle imported from Australia.
It isn’t every day you come across a complete engine pod from a Consolidated B-24 Liberator Bomber! Just another day for Dan and Kev who couldn’t resist acquiring this large piece of a wartime bomber for the collection. Although the exact serial number of the aircraft is not known the engine nacelle was recently discovered… Read more: Some late breaking news! Complete Consolidated B-24 Bomber Engine Nacelle imported from Australia. - Meanwhile behind the scenes at the Wings Museum – A Mosquito is born!
For the last 4 years part of the Wings Restoration team have been busy working on a mock-up De-Havilland Mosquito fuselage, as part of a complicated trade with a private collector. We constructed the inboard wing sections, cockpit, fuselage and tail fin. Not an easy task and I am sure you will agree from the… Read more: Meanwhile behind the scenes at the Wings Museum – A Mosquito is born! - Charity Events at Wings this Summer
We are very pleased to report that we have some more Rolls Royce Merlin engine run dates planned for this year, as well as the return of “Dad Day” (D-Day) event on 16th June! This proved very popular last Fathers Day and it is planned to repeat this event again this year. For those that… Read more: Charity Events at Wings this Summer - Volunteers (AKA Wings Nuts)
The backbone of the Wings Museum really is our amazing team of volunteers who give up their free time to help the museum. We are pleased to report that we have over the past 12 months seen some new volunteers join our growing team and we really do hope to attract more this year, especially… Read more: Volunteers (AKA Wings Nuts) - New Displays for 2025!
Curator Dan has been busy introducing new displays to the museum to keep the museum fresh and informative. Among some of the new displays introduced for the 2025 season cover display subjects such as… Operation Market GardenOperation Overlord – D-DayTragedy at Lyme Bay and D-Day training at Slapton Battle of the Bulge and the Ardennes As… Read more: New Displays for 2025! - DUKW Amphibious vehicle maintenance
During 2024 our DUKW received well over 100 man hours in preservation work. This included accessing the hull under the floor and cleaning out the “hat” channels and spraying anti corrosion formula to prevent any future corrosion from occurring. These hat channels are what gives the DUKW’s strength to the plate steel hull. Metal rods… Read more: DUKW Amphibious vehicle maintenance - Reigate Hill B-17 Crash 80th Anniversary Event – 19th March 2025
Here at the Wings Museum we have the most complete collection of artefacts recovered from the Reigate Hill Boeing B-17 that crashed into the hill on 19th March 1945, with the tragic loss of all on board. The full story and dozens of artefacts are on display in the museum for all to see, including a… Read more: Reigate Hill B-17 Crash 80th Anniversary Event – 19th March 2025 - Man Cave work!
Curator Dan’s Man Cave has also been put to good use over the winter preserving and restoring several items from the museum collection and also the reserve collection. This included the flying helmet and oxygen mask from the Master Bomber of the infamous Dresden raid. The leather C-Type helmet had been nibbled by a mouse… Read more: Man Cave work! - Heinkel 177 “Greif” rear turret back together again after 70 years
In 2012 Dan and Kev were invited to attend an excavation of a very rare Heinkel 177 “Greif” of 4/KG30 that was shot down on 13th June 1944 in Normandy France. During this excavation the 2 x Daimler Benz 610 engines (2 x DB605 coupled together to make one 610 engine) were unearthed together with the undercarriage… Read more: Heinkel 177 “Greif” rear turret back together again after 70 years - Belgium Trip 2024
Founding Curators of the Wings Aviation Museum, Dan and Kev travelled to Belgium in September 2024 to help unveil a memorial to the crew of a 100th Bomb Group B-17 that crashed in the village of Kasterlee on 4th February 1944. The 100th Bomb Group has been the subject of TV series Masters of the Air, so it… Read more: Belgium Trip 2024