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Dear all The Wight Aviation Museum would like to pay tribute to founding member and former trustee Tony Smart, who recently passed away following a short illness at the age of 87. Tony joined the steering group of the Wight Aviation Museum in 2016 before going on to become the museums technical director and a…

2023 has been a very busy and successful year for the Wight Aviation Museum with a full season of operation with the museum open for visitors from April, when the High Sheriff, Kay Marriott, formally “Opened the Museum” in the Spring which stayed open until the end of October.Many of our ongoing projects have continued…

Museum Re-opens for the holiday Season Following many months of hard work by volunteers the museum re-opened to public visitors on Saturday the 1st of April and will now be open on Saturday, Sunday, Mondays and Tuesday from 10am – 3pm until the end of October. We do not charge a set admission fee but…

2022 has been one of the most successful years to date for the museum as we enjoyed our first full season of operations in over 2 years following the previous year’s lockdowns, due to the Covid pandemic. The Museum opens for business. Following many months of hard work by volunteers over the winter the Wight…

After a very busy and successful opening weekend in April the “Wight Aviation Museum” is now open again for the public to visit. Lora Peacey-Wilcox, Leader of the Isle of Wight Council performed the “ribbon cutting” ceremony at our “Grand Opening” on the 9th and 10th of April. The busy opening weekend continued through-out April…

Museum Re-opening for 2022 March has seen a very busy month at the museum with our team of volunteers working hard to prepare the museum for opening and we’re pleased to announce the museum will be re-opening to the public on Saturday 9th April and Sunday 10th April from 11am in the morning with last…

The volunteers at had another very busy month at the Museum preparing for opening in the Spring, unfortunately the museum roof did sustain some damage caused by Storm Eunice in mid February, which saw records winds of up to 120 mph recorded off the Needles. Volunteers sprung into action and helped clear the area of…

Dear members and supporters we hope you had an enjoyable festive holidays and the new year has started well for you all things considered.  Despite the ongoing challenges of Covid work has now continued on creating a new shop and reception area for the museum towards our main re-opening in the Spring, ( more updates on this to follow next month).…

The Wight Aviation Museum team would like to wish all of our supporters and visitors a very Happy Christmas and New Year and thankyou for all of your support throughout 2021.

We are pleased to announce the museum is open again to visitors and look forward to seeing you again soon. Our main opening times are Mondays and Tuesday 10am to 2pm and Saturdays 10am to 3pm with additional opening days to suite events at Sandown Airfield. See our Airfield Events page further details. We do…