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Spitfire Week 8 to 12 June

1977

Share Your RAF Story

RAF Stories, a new online project by the RAF Museum encourages the public to share inspiring stories of their connections to the RAF.

To the Stars: Illuminating the Art Collection in 50 Works

Marking 50 years since Queen Elizabeth II opened the RAF Museum in London, our new art exhibition celebrates the occasion with 50 works

For Valour: Wing Commander Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire

The award of the Victoria Cross to Wing Commander Cheshire was unique amongst aviation VC awards during the Second World War.

RAF Museum awarded Freedom of the Borough of Barnet

Barnet Council has awarded the Freedom of the Borough to the RAF Museum to celebrate its diligent preservation of the proud history of our nation’s 100-year-old Royal Air Force.

Hop on board a helicopter fit for a King!

This October Half Term we're opening up the helicopter that Prince William flew when he was in RAF Search and Rescue.

RAF Museum 2021 Research Lectures Call for Speakers

Call for Speakers for the 2021 RAF Museum Research Lecture Programme

The Reconstruction of Hawker Typhoon Mk. IB MN235

Work on the reconstruction of Hawker Typhoon Mk.1b will commence on Monday 26 November

Czechoslovak Women in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)

For Valour: Flight Lieutenant James Brindley Nicolson

Nicolson has the distinction of having been the only member of Fighter Command ever to have been thus decorated.

RAF Museum 2021 Research Lectures Call for Speakers

Call for Speakers for the 2021 RAF Museum Research Lecture Programme