Newark Air Museum Cockpitfest 2014

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June 2014

Visited Newark Air Museum last weekend, for the excellent annual CockpitFest.
It's a chance to see many rare cockpits brought from around the country, as well a look at this fantastic museum.
Here are a few snaps of the cockpits, to be followed by a log from the event...

Anson G-AGPG



Jetstream 41 G-TEXA



Jet Provost XN549



Hunter XE584



Mustang 44-11175



Canberra PR.9 XH177



Canberra WH863



Canberra WH779



Buccaneer XZ431



Victor Sim


Phantom XV490



Harrier XV810



Lightning XS922



Lightning XS932



Lightning XR754



Jaguar XX736



Valetta WJ476



Whirlwind XA862



Jet Provost XW302 / G-BYED



Chipmunk WZ869



A.26C Invader 43-22649



Hawk XX320

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Here is a belated log for the event. As I've been to the museum many times, I didn't bother writing things down at the time, so may have a missed a few off the log![/span]

Newark Air Museum 15/06/14

RA897 Cadet
TG517 Hastings
VL348 Anson
VR249 Prentice
VZ608 Meteor
VZ634 Meteor
WB491 Ashton (ff)
WB624 Chipmunk
WF369 Varsity
“WH792” Canberra (really WH791)
WH863 Canberra (ff)
WH904 Canberra
WK277 Swift
WM913 Sea Hawk
WR977 Shackleton
WS692 Meteor
WS739 Meteor
WT651 Hunter
WT933 Sycamore
WV606 Provost
WV787 Canberra
WW217 Sea Venom
WX905 Venom
XD593 Vampire
XH992 Javelin
XJ560 Sea Vixen
XL764 Skeeter
XM383 Jet Povost
XM594 Vulcan
XM685 Whirlwind
XN573 Jet Provost (ff)
XN964 Buccaneer
XP226 Gannet
XR534 Gnat
XS417 Lightning
XT200 Sioux
XV728 Wessex
XW276 Gazelle
XX492 Jetstream
XX634 Bulldog
XX753 Jaguar (ff)
XX829 Jaguar
ZA176 Sea Harrier
XR238? Auster (true identity not confirmed)

AR-107 Draken Danish AF
83 Mystere French AF
56321 Safir (G-BKPY) Norwegian AF
37918 Viggen Swedish AF
“458” MiG-23ML “Polish AF” (really Russian 04red)
71red MiG-27K Russian AF
42-12417 T.6 Harvard (fus)
51-9036 T.33A USAF
54-2223 F.100D USAF

G-AHRI Dove
G-ANXB Heron
G-APNJ Cessna 310
G-APRT Taylor Monoplane
G-APVV Mooney M.20
G-ASNY Bensen B.8
G-BFTZ Rallye
G-BJAD FRED
G-BKPG Luscombe Rattler Strike
G-CCLT Powerchute Kestrel
“G-MAZY” Tiger Moth
G-MBBZ Volmer VJ.24
G-MBUE MBA Tiger Cub
G-MBVE Hiway Skytrike
G-MJCF Maxair Hummer
G-MJDW Eipper Quicksilver
G-MNRT Aviasud Sirocco
BAPC20 Lee-Richards Annular
BAPC43 Mignet HM.14
BAPC101 Mignet HM.14 (fus)
BAPC183 Zurowski Zp.1
VH-UTH GAL Monospar

Cockpitfest 2014

G-AGPG Anson (ff)
G-TEXA Jetstream 41 (ff)
WH779 Canberra (ff) resident
WH863 Canberra (ff) resident
WJ476 Valetta (ff)
WZ869 Chipmunk (ff)
XA862 Whirlwind (ff)
XE584 Hunter (ff)
XH177 Canberra (ff) resident
XN549 Jet Provost (ff)
XR754 Lightning (ff)
XS922 Lightning (ff)
XS932 Lightning (ff)
XV490 Phantom (ff) resident
XV810 Harrier (ff)
XW302 Jet Provost (G-BYED) (ff)
XX320 Hawk (ff)
XX736 Jaguar (ff)
XZ431 Buccaneer (ff)
43-22649 A.26 Invader (ff)
44-11175 P.51 Mustang Replica (ff)
Victor SIM (ff)

PS915 Spitfire (flypast)


Always a really good event, made 5 new this year including the Auster in the museum whose true identity is a bit of a mystery!
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The event this year is Sat 13th and Sun 14th June 2015.

The website keeps an updated list of which cockpits are confirmed as attending.