A group of us visited the museum on an organised tour.A complete surprise. The Guides were excellent and brought the whole museum to life. The hangard exhibits were fascinating and the "Dambuster" memorabilia very moving. The additional exhibitions, including the Fire Service Museum, combined with the Red Arrows flying a display made for a memorable day.Good to see the respect given to these remarkable people.It needs our support.
Visited whilst ona weekend break. Absolutely excellent would highly recommend. You need to contact the base prior to visiting to arrange a visit, but this was no problem. We had a personal guide who was extremely knowledgeable and even saw the Red Arrows taking off for a practice. Brilliant.
RAF Scampton is the present home of the Red Arrows and has a museum which is certainly worth visiting but I beleive that one has to call first to arrange a visit as it it is not always open. RAF Scampton had a strategique involvement during WW2.
Spent a few hours there together with the fire fighting museum next door. Dedicated band of volunteers to show you around, we really enjoyed it.
Well worth a look. Very historical RAF Station. Informative visit and made even better by a visit to the Museum of RAF Firefighting, right next door. Best of both worlds. Allow a few hours and definately visit both. Give a good donation to the fire museum as they deserve it and rely soley on donations.
We were visiting the firefighting museum and were offered the chance to view this collection. We were taken round by some very knowlagable people who showed us a good collecton of cockpit sections and also complete aircaraft, that had operated from this airfield. The highlight for me on the eve of rememberance was a private visit to Guy Gibsons office, which overlooked his dogs grave. Standing in that room was very thought provoking and humbleing looking over some saved articles from the Danbusters missions. Well worth a visit on its own.
this is a must visit if you are interested in anything to do with the dambusters.Its full of history on the bombing raids in ww2. you can sit at Guy Gibsons desk,which is very emotive. excellent !!will go again
I sent an email requesting a visit, stating date, time, vehicle details, names, mobile number etc and never got reply, so I telephoned a few days later and got the answer machine, which said to send an email !!!!!!!A pity they are not as efficient as there neighbours at the Fire Museum who could not do enough for us when we went there.
We were so lucky. The Red Arrows had finished their display season in September and so they were on station when we visited and we were treated to a free airshow during our visit watching them stat up, taxi out, take off, display, land and taxi in. The Dam Buster Story and the tour of the base was very well done and informative. All free although there is an opportunity to make a donation over a cup of tea or coffee (again free) at the end. I noted several members of our group never donated a penny. What a shame for something that's completely voluntary. It also is such a shame that so much of the base is no longer occupied with only about 10% of the former number of personnel now stationed there. I would have thought that the listed building could be retained and the camp/airfield restructured to make better use of the available land with the Red Arrows moving to another location nearby. Was a bit eerie walking around the place. Imagine wha it is like when the RA are not there.
I truely recomend a visit. This was a day filled with wonderful and interesting facts and history surrounding RAF Scampton. The staff were so friendly and welcoming and greeted us with hot drinks, lovely! The tour was informative and extremely interesting, many of the exhibits provided personally by Steve Shirley, RAF Fire Fighter.All the talks given were thoroughly thought out and well supported with lots of visual prompts, from beautiful glass fire grenades to magnificient fire engines and a Lancaster fuselage! The museum is small but the space expertly utilised given full benefit to the wonderful displays.The only drawback is it needs to expand to fully display all the wonderful things they have, particularly the large collection of mainly military fire engines so please visit and support to keep this museum open with a positive future!