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Fleet Air Arm Museum
Box D6RNAS Yeovilton
Near Ilchester BA22 8HT South West England UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1935 840565
web : Fleet Air Arm Museum
The main entrance to the museum is up a flight of stairs. We realise that not everyone will be able to use this entrance, so there is a ground floor entrance to the left of the main staircase for visitors in wheelchairs or any others who have limited mobility/disability, and for families with young children in pushchairs.
History of Aviation in the Royal Navy
In 1912 a Royal Navy aircraft took off from a platform built for the purpose over the forecastle of HMS HIBERNIA in Weymouth Bay, the first time an aircraft had ever taken off from a ship under way at sea.
Since then, the Royal Navy has operated airships, seaplanes, flying boats and tens of thousands of aeroplanes and helicopters. It has built and deployed over a hundred aircraft-carrying ships and commissioned over a hundred air stations ashore for training and support operations.
Most of the innovative ideas that made the operation of aircraft from ships at sea possible at all have been British; many of them designed by officers serving in the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy invented many of the concepts and tactics used by air forces throughout the world.
It may surprise casual visitors to this web site to learn that the Royal Navy is, and always has been, one of the world's largest and most technically advanced air forces. The Centre for Naval Aviation Records and Research, within the Curatorial Department of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm Museum exists to collect records, photographs and other heritage material relevant to the people, aircraft and ships of Britain's flying Navy.
The armoured cars operated by the RNAS in World War 1 might also cause a little surprise. Innovation was not limited to the aircraft and their operation.
Opening Hours
The Museum is open every day of the year, except Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
April to October: 10am - 5.30pm
Last admission: 4pm
Last entrance to the Carrier Exhibition: 4:15pm
November to March: 10am - 4.30pm
Last admission: 3pm
Last entrance to the Carrier Exhibition: 3:15pm
Normal Rates
Adult £9.50
Children (5-16 years) £6.00
Senior Citizens £7.00
Family Ticket
(2 adults + 3 children) £28.00
Group Rate (12+ people)
Adult £7.00
Children (5-16 years) £5.00
Senior Citizens £5.00
Pre-booked School Groups
Group Rate
School Groups £4.25
(accompanying adults 1:10)Free
Additional Adults £4.75
Location and Size of the Museum
The museum is located on the B3151 just off the A303 and A37. It is accessible from the M5 motorway, junction 25 at Taunton, via the A358 and A303.
Yeovilton is situated some seven miles north of Yeovil, forty miles south of Bristol, thirty miles north of Weymouth and thrity miles south east of Weston-Super-Mare.
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