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Reserve Collection Open Day: Rare artefacts go on display for the first time at the first 2010 public openings of the Museums Reserve Collection.
The Reserve Collection is larger than many other entire aircraft museums and is housed in a Heritage Lottery funded climate-controlled building called Cobham Hall.
Within Cobham Hall there are over thirty historic aircraft and some five miles of shelving accommodating many of the museums 2 million records and 30 thousand artefacts.
In addition to the aircraft on display in the main hangar, there will be an opportunity to attend a series of guided tours of the Fleet Air Arm Museums Documents Store and Small Objects Store.
Cobham Hall houses one of the largest collections of Westland Helicopters including a Whirlwind and a Wasp, and the Gazelle helicopter in which HRH The Duke of York learnt to flyother aircraft include a de Havilland Sea Vixen and the first swept wing jet aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier, a Supermarine 510.
Cobham Hall also houses the worlds oldest surviving aircraft carrier, the 1918 Thorneycroft seaplane lighter. The Lighter T3 which is on the National Register of Historic Vessels is sixty feet long and was towed behind fast RN destroyers, allowing aircraft to take off at sea during World War 1.
If you havent seen the Museums extensive Reserve Collection, dont miss this rare opportunity.
Reserve Collection Open Day at Fleet Air Arm Museum in Ilchester, Somerset on Sunday, 25 April 2010.
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