Lashenden Air Warfare Museum is an aviation museum at Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield in

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

in southeast England.

Exhibits

A Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg, a piloted version of the

V-1 flying bomb The V-1 flying bomb (german: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1") was an early cruise missile. Its official Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany), Reich Aviation Ministry () designation was Fi 103. It was also known to the Allies as the buz ...

. The

Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 The Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 ''Bachstelze'' ( en, Wagtail) was a type of rotary-wing kite, known as a rotor kite. They were towed behind German U-boats during World War II to allow a lookout to see further. Development Because of their low prof ...

A-1 gyro-kite, used by U-boats for reconnaissance. A

Pickett-Hamilton Fort A Pickett-Hamilton fort is a type of hardened field fortification built in Britain during the invasion crisis of 1940–1941. The Pickett-Hamilton fort was designed to be lowered into the ground while it was not in use, to become inconspicuous ...

, a pop-up pillbox from World War II, was recently excavated from

RAF Manston Royal Air Force Manston or more simply RAF Manston is a former Royal Air Force station located in the north-east of Kent, at on the Isle of Thanet from 1916 until 1996. The site was split between a commercial airport Kent International Airpo ...

and restored. The museum has a large collection of aircraft components and memorabilia.

External links

Lashenden Air Warfare Museum
Aerospace museums in England Museums in the Borough of Maidstone {{UK-aerospace-museum-stub