List of aircraft at the Royal Air Force Museum London facts for kids

This list of aircraft at the Royal Air Force Museum London summarises the collection of aircraft and engines that is housed at the Royal Air Force Museum London.

Hangars

Hangar 1

Overview of the RAF Stories exhibition with the Sea King search and rescue helicopter on the left.

Main point of entry to the Museum with shop, café and corporate areas. The café provides seating under the wings of the Sunderland flying boat.

• Short Sunderland MR.5

Two new exhibitions: RAF Stories: the first 100 years of the Royal Air Force

• de Havilland DH.9A
• Folland Gnat
• Supermarine Spitfire Vb
• Westland Sea King

RAF: First to the Future

• Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II (display mockup)

Hangar 2 (The Grahame-White Factory)

Hangar 2, Grahame-White Factory interior, Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a in the foreground, FE.2b, Sopwith Camel and Fokker D.VII suspended from the ceiling

• Avro 504K
• Blériot XXVII
• Caudron G.3
• Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5A
• Bristol F.2B
• Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8
• Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2B
• Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2B
• Fokker DVII
• Albatros D.Va
• Sopwith Camel
• Sopwith Dolphin
• Sopwith Triplane
• Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus

Hangar 3 and 4 (Historic Hangars)

Avro Rota Bristol Beaufighter TF.X Bristol Beaufort Bristol Sycamore BAC Jet Provost T.5 BAC Lightning F.6 Curtiss Kittyhawk IV de Havilland Canada Chipmunk de Havilland Vampire F.3 English Electric Canberra PR.3 European Helicopter Industries EH101 Merlin Gloster Meteor F.8 Hawker Hart II Hawker Tempest V Hawker Hunter FGA.9 Hawker Tempest II Hawker Typhoon IB Fiat CR.42 Falco

CR 42 Falco in the Battle of Britain exhibition The Gloster Meteor on display in the Historic Hangars Hawker Hurricane I Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 Lockheed Hudson IIIA McDonnell Douglas Phantom II FGR.2 North American Harvard IIB Panavia Tornado F.3 Republic Thunderbolt II Sikorsky R-4 Slingsby Grasshopper Supermarine Southampton Supermarine Spitfire I Supermarine Spitfire F.24 Supermarine Stranraer Taylorcraft Auster I Westland Belvedere HC.1 Westland Gazelle HT.3 Westland Wessex HCC.4 Westland Whirlwind HAR.10

Hangar 5 (The Bomber Hall)

Avro Lancaster R5868 in the Bomber Hall of the RAF Museum London

Junkers Ju 87 Stuka on display in the Bomber Hall as part of the Battle of Britain exhibition

• Airspeed Oxford I
• Avro Anson I
• Avro Lancaster B.I
• Avro Vulcan B.2
• Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress
• Bristol Blenheim IV
• Consolidated B-24L Liberator
• de Havilland Mosquito B.35
• Fairey Battle
• Focke Wulf Fw 190A-8/U-1
• Handley Page Halifax II (recovered wreck)
• Heinkel He 162A-2
• Messerschmitt Bf 110G-2
• North American TB-25J Mitchell
• North American P-51D Mustang
• Percival Prentice
• Heinkel He 111H-20
• Junkers Ju 87G-2

Hangar 6 (Age of Uncertainty)

• BAe Harrier GR.9
• Boeing Chinook front section
• Eurofighter Typhoon (prototype)
• Sepecat Jaguar
• Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.2B
• Lockheed C-130 Hercules cockpit section
• Panavia Tornado GR.1A

Aircraft which have been moved to other RAF Museum sites

Several aircraft have been moved to RAF Museum in Cosford, such as these WW1 fighter aircraft

• Boulton Paul Defiant now in Cosford.
• Gloster Gladiator I now in Cosford
• Junkers Ju 88R-1 now in Cosford.
• Messerschmitt Me 262A-2a Schwalbe now in Cosford
• Gloster F.9/40 (now in Cosford)
• Supermarine Seagull V now in storage at RAF Museum Stafford.
• V-1 Flying Bomb not on display.
• V-2 Rocket not on display.
• Westland Lysander III now in Cosford
• Bristol M.1c now in Cosford
• Sopwith 1½ Strutter now in Cosford
• Sopwith Pup now in Cosford
• Vickers Vimy now in storage at RAF Museum Stafford

Engines on display

Bentley BR2 Bristol Jupiter Bristol Mercury Bristol Hercules XVIII Curtiss OX-5 Daimler-Benz DB 605 Gnome Monosoupape Gnome Omega Green C.4 Hispano-Suiza 8 Lycoming T55 Junkers Jumo 004 Liberty L-12 Napier Dagger Napier Gazelle Napier Double Scorpion Napier Lion VII

The Rolls Royce R Napier Sabre III Power Jets W.2B/500 Rolls-Royce Avon Mk.203 Rolls-Royce Derwent V Rolls-Royce Derwent 8 Rolls-Royce Eagle Rolls-Royce Hawk Rolls-Royce Griffon Rolls-Royce Kestrel IB Rolls-Royce Merlin III Rolls-Royce Merlin XX Rolls-Royce Merlin 23 Rolls-Royce Pegasus Rolls-Royce Spey Rolls-Royce R Sunbeam Arab I