Former Aircraft Museums - Frontline Aviation Musuem

 Former Aircraft Museums - Frontline Aviation Musuem.

This museum was set up at Sandown Airfield, Isle of Wight. Airframes started to arrive in August 1998. Believed to be run by Airframe Assemblies.

Bell P-39Q Airacobra - Parts of an airframe where stored at the museum. Current location unknown. 

Photos of the aircraft parts on display at the Frontline Aviation Museum taken 04.09.1999. Copyright Richard Crockett.

Bleriot XI replica - On loan to the museum. Now registered D-EEXI owned by Josef Koch in Germany.

Photo of the aircraft on display at the Frontline Aviation Museum taken 04.09.1999. Copyright Richard Crockett.

Bristol F.2b Fighter G-AANM - Parts of the aircraft where recovered from a barn at Weston on The Green by the Shuttleworth collection. After restoration to fly and a memorable two displays with three airworthy origional Bristol Fighters the aircraft went to Canada for display at Canada Aviation Museum at Rockliffe, Ontario.

Photo of the aircraft on display at the Frontline Museum taken 21.06.1999. Copyright Chris England.

Photo of the aircraft during the memorable display at Flying Legends of three airworthy origional Bristol Fighters. Copyright Chris England.

Curtiss P-40E Warhawk 41-13570 - ex Russian AF 51 White, USAAF 41-13570. Recovered on 31-8-97 from Lake Kod Ozero near Murmansk, Russia, where it crashed on 1-6-42. Moved to Jefferson City, Missouri, on 29-9-00 for restoration. Recantly (2021) restored to airworthy condition in New Zealand and making its first post restortion flight in late 2021. Shipped to Italiy in 2021. Took up registration OO-WHK 6th May 2024 and based in Belguim.

Two photos of the aircraft on display at the Frontline Aviation Museum taken 21.06.1999. Copyright Chris England.

Fokker DR1 replica - Now registered as D-EFTJ owned by Josef Koch in Germany. Believed to have been on loan to the museum.

Photo of the aircraft on display at the Frontline Aviation Museum taken 04.09.1999. Copyright Richard Crockett.

Gloster Meteor F8 WK914 - Previously on display at Rochester. Stored dismantled at Duxford for a time. Loaned to the Museum by The Old Flying Machine Company, Duxford. Spent some time at Hooton Park. Now on display at the Malta Aviation Museum, Ta-Qail.

Photo of the aircraft at Duxford taken March 1991. Copyright Alan Allen.

Photo of the aircraft on display at the Frontline Museum taken 21.06.1999. Copyright Chris England.

Photo of the aircraft on display at the Malta Aviation Museum taken 01.12.2014. Copyright Richard E Flagg.

Hawker Hunter F4 WV276 - Formerly  an instructional airframe at No1 SoTT, RAF Halton. After the closure of the museum the aircraft moved to RAF Scmpton for storage by Hawker Hunter Aviation. On display at at Wernigerode, Germany. 

Photo of the aircraft on display at Frontline Aviation Museum taken 21.06.1999. Copyright Chris England.

Photo of the aircraft on display at Wernigerode, Germany taken 18.06.2014. Copyright Stu Carr.

Hawker Hunter F51 G-9-439 - Ex Royal Danish Air Force. E-412. Later moved to Booker Airfield as a gate guard. Now on display at Brooklands Museum as XF314.

Photo of the aircraft at the Frontline Museum taken 21.06.1999. Copyright Chris England.

Photo of the aircraft on display at Booker airfield taken June 2000. Copyright Alan Allen.

Hawker Hurricane MK.IIB BH238 -  Recovered from Russia. Sstored for Airframe Assembies on the Isle of Wight as a project for a long time. Moved to Medway Aircraft Preservation Society, Rochester Airport for a static restoration in December 2022.

Photo of the aircraft on display at the Frontline Aviation Museum taken 04.09.1999. Copyright Richard Crockett.

Klemm Kl35D G-BWRD - Loaned to the museum by its owner J.M Koch. After the closure of the museum the aircraft returned to Germany and became D-EFTY where it is still airworthy. G- registration cancelled 16.07.1998 as permantly withdrawn from use.

Photo of the aircraft at the Frontline Museum taken 21.06.1999. Copyright Chris England.

Photo of the aircraft as D-EFTY at  Schonefeld, Germany taken  29.05.2009.  Copyright Chris England.

Mignet HM.14 Pou de Ciel replica BAPC.253 (G-ADZW)  - Now on display at the Solent Sky Museum, Southampton. 

Photo of the aircraft on display at the Frontline Museum taken 21.06.1999. Copyright Chris England.

Photo of the aircraft on display at the Solent Sky Museum taken 20.08.2021. Copyright Oliver Holmes.

Miles M.14A Hawk Trainer G-AVPF -  Restored to airworthy condition and now privatly owned but based at Old Warden.

Photo of the aircraft at the Frontline Museum taken 21.06.1999. Copyright Chris England.

Photo of the aircraft at Old Warden taken 07.06.2009. Copyright Oliver Holmes.

PZL-Okecie 101A Gawron SP-CHD - Later moved to North Weald after the museum closed but fate unknown. 

Two photos of the aircraft at  the Frontline Museum taken 21.06.1999. Copyright Chris England.

Photo of the aircraft at North Weald taken February 2003. Copyright Alan Allen.

Supermarine Spitfire Prototype Replica - Built by Clive Du Cross and registered as G-BRDV. Damaged in at accident 22.09.1997. Now on display at the Battle of Britain Museum Hawkinge, Kent.

Photo of the aircraft on display at the Frontline Aviation Museum taken 04.09.1999. Copyright Richard Crockett.