Avro Heritage Museum | Woodford

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Jan 9
4 min

80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE AVRO LANCASTER’S FIRST FLIGHT

Today marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most significant events in the history of military aviation when the first prototype Avro Lan

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Avro Heritage Museum

Sep 3, 2020
1 min

Cheshire Life Article

The Avro Heritage Museum features in the latest edition of Cheshire Life magazine.

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Avro Heritage Museum

Aug 6, 2020
2 min

ON THIS DAY: 6th August 1986

The first flight of the British Aerospace ATP By early Eighties, the still in production HS748 was beginning to show its age amid the ris...

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Avro Heritage Museum

Jun 28, 2020
3 min

ON THIS DAY: 28th June 1968

The first flight of XV226, the first production Hawker Siddeley Nimrod By the early 1960s, the Royal Air Force’s airborne maritime reconn...

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Avro Heritage Museum

Jun 24, 2020
2 min

ON THIS DAY: 24th June 1960

60 Years since the maiden flight of the Avro Type 748. The second Avro 748, G-ARAY, performing rough landing trials on a ploughed field A...

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Avro Heritage Museum

May 8, 2020
3 min

VE Day 75

VE Day is a chance to remember and give thanks for the enormous effort made by Avro throughout the war. At its peak, Avro’s labour force dur

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Avro Heritage Museum

May 4, 2020
2 min

On This Day

Our very own Vickers VC10 XV106 was delivered to the RAF on 4th May 1994 as a C Mk1 K following conversion at Hurn to add the Air to Air Ref

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Avro Heritage Museum

Apr 30, 2020
2 min

On This Day

Today we celebrate the anniversary of the first flight of the diminutive Avro 534 Baby, a civil biplane which was conceived by A.V. Roe and

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Avro Heritage Museum

Apr 12, 2020
1 min

On This Day

On this day Avro 642 Eighteen first flew from Woodford near Stockport in Cheshire.

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Avro Heritage Museum

Apr 9, 2020
1 min

On This Day

The sixth production aircraft of the Avro 706 Ashton 3 made its maiden flight from Woodford on 9th April 1952, piloted by J.C. Nelson.

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Avro Heritage Museum

Apr 9, 2020
1 min

On This Day

On 9th April 1947, the prototype Avro 688 Tudor 4 G-AHNJ made its first flight from Woodford in the hands of Chief Test Pilot Bill Thorn.

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Avro Heritage Museum

Mar 31, 2020
2 min

On This Day

The Avro Type D made its maiden flight on 1st April 1911 when it was flown by Howard Pixton at Brooklands.

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