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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Willys MB 1944 Jeep Restoration
John and Roy have been doing a cracking job on assembling our February 1944 American Willys Jeep. The engine is mounted and within the last few weeks the engine fired […]
A Kestrel is reborn at Wings!
Being a World War Two Museum, we have not made a big deal of something that really is in fact a huge deal! Our restoration team have also been restoring […]
B-25 Mitchell “Bedsheet Bomber” Update
Many of you will know that we are restoring the complete airframe of a North American B-25 Mitchell, fondly known as the “Bedsheet Bomber” B-25J-25-NC-44-30861. The team has been beavering […]
Podcast – B-25 Mitchell Wing Restoration – Jan 2022
In this, the first Wings Museum podcast of 2022: We talk to museum Co-Curator Daniel Hunt about the museum’s role of remembering people’s sacrifice in war, and keeping their stories […]