Shuttleworth Collection

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Bristol F2B from the Shuttleworth Collection

The Shuttleworth Collection is an aircraft and automobile museum at Old Warden Airfield in Bedfordshire . The collection is highly regarded worldwide for the variety of carefully restored aircraft on display. Some of the aircraft will be kept in airworthy condition and flown to various events.

history

The collection was founded in 1928 by the British aviation pioneer Richard Shuttleworth . Shuttleworth crashed his Fairey Battle on the night of August 2, 1940 and was killed in the process. His mother founded the Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust in 1944 to "study the science and practice of aviation, afforestation and agriculture".

collection

Restoration of a Spitfire from the collection, September 2008

The restoration and maintenance of the exhibits is carried out by eight full-time employees who are supported by numerous volunteers. The volunteers are members of the Shuttleworth Veteran Airplane Society (SVAS), which currently has approximately three thousand members. The support of the society is crucial for the preservation of the collection and the restoration of the exhibits. The foundation tries to keep as many aircraft as possible in an airworthy condition or to restore them, which is also the intention of the founder of the collection.

Exceptional exhibits in the collection are the so-called Edwardians , aircraft that were built during the reign of the British King Edward VII or shortly afterwards. It is particularly noteworthy that these aircraft are still airworthy and are flown in regularly - depending on the weather conditions. The oldest airworthy exhibit is a Blériot XI from 1909. This aircraft still has its original engine. This aircraft is the oldest airworthy aircraft in the world, but the Bleriot XI of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in the USA is only three weeks younger.

The Shuttleworth Collection conducts up to twelve flight days a year, during which a part of the exhibits is flown to the front. An evening demonstration is also part of this. There are also model flying days and once a year a special flying day for pupils from schools in the region.

The collection also includes historic automobiles and motorcycles.

Collection aircraft

Type Construction year Mark comment
ANEC II 1924 G-EBJO
Avro 504K 1918 G-ADEV Painting and registration as H5199
Roe IV triplane 1964 G-ARSG Replica
Avro tutor 1933 G-AHSA Painting and registration as RAF K3241
Avro Nineteen (Anson) 1946 G-AHKX Owner of BAE Systems
Blackburn Type D 1912 G-AANI Oldest airworthy British aircraft in the collection
Blériot XI 1909 G-AANG oldest airworthy exhibit in the collection
Bristol Boxkite 1964 G-ASPP Replica
Bristol F.2b fighter 1918 G-AEPH Painting and registration as RAF D8096
Bristol M.1C 1981 G-BWJM Replica , painting and registration as RFC C4918
CASA 1.131E Jungmann 1967 G-RETA Painting and registration as Luftwaffe GD + EG
Comper Swift 1932 G-ACTF
De Havilland DH.51 1924 G-EBIR Miss Kenya
De Havilland DH.53 Humming Bird 1923 G-EBHX
De Havilland DH.60 Cirrus Moth 1925 G-EBLV Owner of BAE Systems
de Havilland DH.60X Hermes Moth 1928 G-EBWD
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth II 1942 G-ANKT Painting and marking as RAF K2585
De Havilland DH.88 Comet 1934 G-ACSS Grosvenor House
De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk 22 1952 G-BNZC Painting and marking as RCAF 671
Deperdussin monoplane 1910 G-AANH
Desoutter Mk.I 1930 G-AAPZ
English Electric Wren 1923 G-EBNV
Gloster Gladiator 1937 G-AMRK Painting and marking as RAF K7985
Granger Archeopteryx 1932 G-ABXL currently being restored, not on display
Hawker Hind 1935 G-AENP Painting and marking as RAF K5414
Hawker Sea Hurricane IB 1939 G-BKTH Painting and marking as RN Z7015
Hawker Tomtit 1931 G-AFTA Painting and marking as RAF K1786
Messerschmitt Me 163 191454 Mockup of the fuselage with the original engine
Mignet HM.14 Flying Flea 1939 G-AEBB
Miles Magister 1939 G-AJRS Painting and marking as RAF P6382
Parnall Elf 1932 G-AAIN
Percival Prentice T1 1949 G-AOKL
Percival Provost T1 1955 G-KAPW Painting and marking as RAF XF603
Polikarpov Po-2 G-BSSY
RAF SE.5A 1918 G-EBIA Painting and marking as RFC F904
Slingsby Grasshopper TX.1 XA241
Sopwith Camel 2001 G-BZSC Replica, currently being restored, not on display
Sopwith Pup 1920 G-EBKY Painting and marking as RFC 9917
Sopwith Triplane 1980 G-BOCK Replica; Painting and marking as RNAS N6290
Southern Martlet 1930 G-AAYX
Supermarine Spitfire LF.VC 1942 G-AWII Painted as RAF AR501
Westland Lysander IIIA 1942 G-AZWT Painting and marking as RAF V9367

The following aircraft are on loan from private owners:

Motor vehicles in the collection

Hucks starter, 1920.

There are also some tractors in the collection.

literature

  • Ken. Ellis: Wrecks and Relics - 19th Edition . Midland Publishing, Hinckley, Leicestershire, 2004, ISBN 1-85780-183-0 .
  • TE Guttery: The Shuttleworth Collection . London 1969, Wm. Carling & Co, ISBN 0-901319-01-5
  • David Ogilvy: Shuttleworth - The Historic Airplanes . Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 1989, ISBN 1-85310-106-0 .

Web links

Commons : Shuttleworth Collection  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Ogilvy, Chapter 1
  2. ↑ see Shuttleworth Veteran Airplane Society
  3. ↑ see Ogilvy, introduction

Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 8 "  N , 0 ° 19 ′ 32"  W.