>August Events / charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk / Waveney Valley August 5, 2014
Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum,
Flixton, nr. Bungay
RAFA Day
Sunday August 10th 2014
10am-5pm
Sunday 10th August is our Annual RAFA Day event, with Diss RAFA the main branch in attendance.
There will be WWII RAF veterans, participation by RAF Regiment Honington, aviation stalls and aviation book sale, military vehicles, veteran motorbikes, Swing Dancing in the hangar, simulator “flights”, Spitfire flypast (pm).
It will be from 10.00 to 5.00. Admission free as usual but donations will be encouraged to both organisations.
Refreshments available.
The Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, recognised as East Anglia’s Aviation Heritage Centre, is run entirely by volunteers, with one paid staff member. It is a Registered Charity (No. 281804), a Limited Company registered in England and Wales (No. 1487622), and an Accredited Museum (No. 1938).
The collection early in 2014 comprised 66 aircraft (including cockpits), and more than 30,000 smaller artefacts. 11 aircraft and 6 cockpits are displayed outdoors but everything else is on view within themed buildings for the Royal Observer Corps No. 6 Group, the 446th (H) Bomb Group USAAF, RAF Bomber Command, RAF Air-Sea Rescue & Coastal Command, and local aviation from the pioneer years to the present day. There are also numerous exhibitions on special subjects including WWII Decoy Crews, Boulton & Paul Norwich, RAF Link Trainers, aerial photography, radio/radar/electronic counter measures, the Home Front, and Luftwaffe wreckology. Facilities include a Shop, Archive & Library, snack area (NAAFI), picnic tables, and a raised boardwalk to the river through a Willow plantation – the Adair Walk.
