Bristol Aero Collection

Bristol Aero Collection
Hangar E2
Kemble Airfield
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
GL7 6BQ
England

Website

www.bristolaero.com

Telephone

01285 771204

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Bristol Aero Collection
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The Museum at Kemble offers a wide variety of displays depicting the history of aviation, specifically the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Housed in a wartime hangar on an active airfield, the museum has plenty to offer with exhibits telling the story of the people who worked for the company, and the diverse range of products they made. On display are aircraft, engines, missiles, spacecraft, road transport and many more items designed and built by the company in the last century.

Venue Type:

Museum

 Opening hours

Easter to October: Sun Mon 10:00-16:00
November to Easter: Mon 10:00-16:00

Closed: Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Guided tours
  • Parking for coaches
  • Shop
 Disability access
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
  • Wheelchairs available for loan

Bristol Aero Collection
Hangar E2
Kemble Airfield
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
GL7 6BQ
England

Website

www.bristolaero.com

Telephone

01285 771204

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Aircraft, guided missiles, spacecraft and aero engines produced by the Bristol Aeroplane Company and its successors centred on the Filton works north of Bristol. Also some products of the related Bristol Tram and Carriage Co. Drawings, archives and artefacts illustrating the background of industrial techniques.

Collection details

Weapons and War, Land Transport, Aviation

Key artists and exhibits

  • Bristol Babe biplane (1919, replica)
  • Bristol Bolingbroke WW2 bomber (1941)
  • Bristol Sycamore helicopter (1947)
  • Bristol 173 twin-rotor helicopter (1952)
  • Bristol Britannia airliner (1952, nose section of prototype)
  • Hawker Harrier PCB ground test rig
  • Beagle 206 (1961, nose section)
  • Concorde cabin mock-up
  • Jindivik pilotless drone
  • Bristol Pegasus radial piston engine
  • Bristol Hercules radial piston engine
  • Bristol Centaurus radial piston engine
  • Bristol Proteus turboprop engine
  • Bristol Olympus 104 turbojet engine
  • Bristol Olympus 593B turbojet engine
  • Rolls Royce Avon turbojet engine
  • Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojet engine
  • Bristol Bloodhound missile
  • WE177 free-fall nuclear weapon
  • Tracked Rapier mobile air defence system
  • Sea Dart missile
  • Polaris missile
  • Sea Eagle missile
  • Ikara Anti-Submarine missile
  • Giotto space vehicle mock-up
  • Skylark sounding rocket
  • Horse drawn tram
  • Bristol 4-ton lorry
  • Bristol double-decker bus
  • Thornycroft Airfield Crash tender

Bristol Aero Collection
Hangar E2
Kemble Airfield
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
GL7 6BQ
England

Website

www.bristolaero.com

Telephone

01285 771204

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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