Bournemouth Aviation Museum will be holding a cockpit day on Saturday 19 September from 10am to 4pm for all those interested in coming along to see a variety of military and civil cockpits displayed by their owners. Anyone wishing to display a cockpit are welcome to attend (contact paul.j.rushton@btopenworld.com).

Visitors will be charged £3 entrance fee. There will be various stalls open selling memorabilia and aviation items. There will also be a display of military vehicles, and the museum’s regular collection of aircraft.

Great news today. Bournemouth Aviation Museum is to re-open this Saturday (18 October 2008), 10 months since it was closed by the airport due to them requiring the land for other purposes.

Now the museum has been relocated alongside the Wonderland Family Adventure Park and the exhibits have been reassembled ready for the museum’s reopening.

In addition to this, the museum intends to erect a viewing platform from which visitors can watch and photograph the movements at Bournemouth Airport, which is very welcome.

Eventually an Aviation Heritage Centre is planned for the site, which was once home to the manufacturing plant of the BAC 1-11 amongst other aircraft.

The museum’s website is at http://www.aviation-museum.co.uk/frameset.htm