Miscellaneous Newark Air Museum News 2015

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A traffic alert for the next few days and the weekend has been added in here for anyone that might be planning to visit the museum, or who is passing through the area!

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The latest update to the Acquisition Timeline page has just been posted and it sees the Jaguar T2A featured as it arrived from Suffolk on 21st March 2012.

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Details of an invitation to veterans who served in World War II can be found in here this relates to our Victory Days 2015 event in July.

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Everything is set at NAM for a busy Easter Holiday period; even the unsettled weather shouldn’t be too much of an issue with lots to see in 4 undercover display areas!

Plus the latest airframe on the Acquisition Timeline page is the Vampire, which arrived on 30th March 1973.

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It’s good to be able to report various updates today:

The arrival of the Vickers Varsity features on the Acquisition Timeline page today as it arrived on 1st April 1976.

Details of a new Membership Service being provided by the museum have just been announced.

Plus a new photo of work on the Ashton nose has been added in here.

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Starting from tomorrow and over the Easter holiday we will have a number of aircraft open to the public further details in here – listed at present on different days are the Vulcan, Shackleton and Varsity.

Happy Easter everyone!

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Looking good for open cockpits today: Varsity, Canberra B(I)8, Hastings, Vulcan, Jaguar cockpit, Phantom CIM cockpit, Argosy CIM – more information here!

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An exhibit from the 'dark-side', which arrived on 10th April 2012 has been added to the Acquisition Timeline page on the NAM website.

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An update has been added to the museum website about now implementing the construction of the new Education Room. Café & Toilet facilities on a phased basis – details in here!

Any support would be most gratefully received!

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The Buccaneer has been repositioned on the museum site so that it can be repainted – photo in here shows its new location.

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Despite the closure of the A1 southbound this weekend at the A57/A614 junction and the resultant major traffic chaos in the local area, the museum is open as normal. We’ve even benefited from people getting out of the queues and breaking up their journey with a visit to the museum – open as normal on Sunday!

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The museum will be participating again in the BBC Nottingham Big Day Out campaign, which provides free admission to a host of tourist attractions in the county.

Details of participants can be found here N.B. you’ll need the print-out if you want to gain the free admission offer at the museum.

On Sunday we will have several aircraft / cockpits open and a small additional fee is charged to access each one; all proceeds will go towards our ‘Project Panini’ – the new Education Room, Café & Toilet facility.

There is also some traffic advice to be aware of for next weekend – details in here. Plus the first participation details have been added to our website for the Victory Days 2015 event.

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A quick bump for the BBC Big Day Out event – we don’t want anyone to miss out.

During the event on Sunday we will have several aircraft / cockpits open and a small additional fee is charged to access each one; all proceeds will go towards our ‘Project Panini’ – the new Education Room, Café & Toilet facility.

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The Big Day Out was a huge success, so much so we were so stretched that the TSR2 cockpit didn’t get unwrapped after all. Details about how the day went can be found in here we had 8 different aircraft open on Sunday.

Some good publicity was achieved for the forthcoming NAM events!

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On 1st May 1977 the museum’s volunteers helped move the dismantled Shackleton airframe WR977 on 7 lorries from RAF Finningley to Winthorpe – this aircraft is featured on the Acquisition Timeline page on the NAM website from today – more details in here!

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Travel advice details for anyone planning on visiting the museum on the weekend of May 9th & 10th 2015 have been uploaded in here! This relates to the annual County Show over on the Showground

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Today’s entry onto the Acquisition Timeline page is the Venom NF3.

Also please don’t forget it’s our Tribute to Our Training Aircraft event this weekend more details in here!

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A bit of ‘traffic advice’ for this coming weekend was added to the NAM website yesterday details in here!

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How we acquired the MiGs is today’s entry onto the Acquisition Timeline page of the museum website.

Plus we may have some aircraft open this bank holiday weekend, details about how this works in here!

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An event update has been added to the museum website for the NAM Victory Days event, which takes place on 25 & 26 July.