Former Rolls-Royce Heron seen here undergoing restoraton and painting. It would soon re-appear in its original Rolls-Royce colours. The Heron was originally delivered to RR in July 1956 and served with them until sold to Aces High in 1982. In the subsequent years it saw storage at Fairoaks, Exeter and Biggin Hill before being delivered to the museum on 19 Aug 1995.

This rare squared-window Comet was delivered to Air France in June 1953, but withdrawn very quickly, following the Comet disaster at Elba in Jan 1954. The aircraft became G-AOJT and ended up at RAE Farnborough for testing. Its fuselage survived, and after many years of cocooned storage, it was acquired by the museum in March 1985 and immediately trucked there, arriving on 20 Mar 1985. The Comet still carries its original Air France colours as F-BGNX. The all-silver cockpit section dates back to July 1999, when it was painted to resemble the all-silver Comet prototype G-5-1 for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Comet's first flight.

This very early DH.125 arrived at the museum in 1979. On the left side it carries "Bristol Siddeley" titles with matching "BS" fin logo, but on the right side it has "Rolls-Royce" titles and fin logo, with additional "Bristol Engine Division" titles.

Ever since it was first delivered in Aug 1960, this Dove has been a De Havilland / Hawker Siddeley / British Aerospace company aircraft. It was finally withdrawn from use in Sep 1987 and stored at Hatfield. It was transferred to the de Havilland Aircraft Museum Trust on 16 Mar 1995, but not actually delivered to the museum until some time in the second half of 2000. At the time the museum was still called the Mosquito Aircraft Museum / de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, but in January 2014 they changed their name to the much more appropriate de Havilland Aircraft Museum.

At the Mosquito Aircraft Museum, Salisbury Hall.

Prior to renovation at what is now known as the de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre at Salisbury Hall.

At the De Havilland Aircraft Museum, Salisbury Hall.

The information board stated that this was WZ476. It was actually a composite of the pod from XE985 fitted with the wings and booms of WZ476. Here it awaits a repaint after restoration at the then Mosquito Museum

Part of the Mosquito Museum, as it was then called.

Some 35 years after my shot of Rolls Royce's Heron at EMA, here she is looking good in the last house colours at the de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre. Fuselage of BAe 146 G-JEAO behind