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• Heritage Open Days - the Wings Museum is proud to have been part of this years Reigate & Banstead Borough Councils Heritage Open Days which is organised by the Reigate Society.

• Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), medals & uniforms relating to a Rear Tail Gunner in Halifax bombers who flew with Bomber Command during World War Two has kindly been donated for display. Research is currently underway to obtain his full RAF history.

• Spitfire Clock rim wound clock donated for display.

• Items relating to RAF Redhill including a 1941 dated xmas menu, an RAF Redhill pass, photographs, booklets and a .50 caliber bullet made into a lighter by Canadian Air Men at Redhill have been donated for display. The shell case was most likely picked up from the gun butts at Redhill and would have probably have come from one of the CanadianRAF Mustangs that were based at Redhill at that time.

• A large quantity of wartime Royal Air Force Maps from RAF Redhill have been donated for display. The maps were taken in 1946 from the old watch office. Several of the maps have the pilots name and flight co-ordinates marked on them.

• Our Rolls Royce Derwent engine from a Meteor Jet has been moved into the hanger ready for restoration to static display condition.

• A Rolls Royce Merlin XX engine has been moved into the hanger for a detailed assessment of missing parts damage etc. We aim to complete this engine as a ground running static.

• Our C-47 fuselage has returned to Redhill via a low loader

• Our Rolls Royce Derwent engine from a Meteor Jet has been moved into the hanger ready for restoration to static display condition.

• A Rolls Royce Merlin XX engine has been moved into the hanger for a detailed assessment of missing parts damage etc. We aim to complete this engine as a ground running static.

• Work is progressing well on a static display Gipsy Queen engine and will soon be completed

• A purpose built steel stand for our C-47 fuselage is now complete, this work has been completed off site. This will form part of phase two of the museum expansion as walk through D-Day experience. Also it is planned to represent the ground battles of the Invasion of Europe in this display.

• The Wings Museum attended the Surrey History Centres opening of Buried Battles and Veteran's Voices.

• Mk IX Bombsight donated for display, the Mk IX was fitted to early bombers such as the the Whitley, Blenheim, Battle, Anson & the Oxford.

• Original files & papers concerning German objects dropped from the air & also an incendiary bomb & bomb fuse all from the Reigate area donated for display.

• A Spitfire boost gauge & original pilots notes for the Hurricane & Spitfire recently donated

• The museum is now open 2 Saturdays per month up until December 2008.

• We are now registered with Surrey Museums

• We welcomed the family of P.O Mathieson who visited us to see the medals associated with P.O. Mathieson which are now on display in the Bomber Command Room.

• Phase 2 of the museum is now underway

• The workshop is now ready for action - can you help?

• The Wings Museum has just returned from a searching trip to France to rescue artifacts for display in phase 2 of the museum which will be titled the second front - watch this space!

• A new floor has recently been fitted to our C-47 Fuselage ready for phase 2

• A Nazi flag liberated from Berlin during WW2 has been donated for display

• We were honoured to welcome a former A-20 Boston pilot on a special visit to the museum to see our A-20 Boston which will be on public display in the future.

• The Redhill Story photographic display is now complete.

• Phase 1 of the Wings Museum is now complete

• CCTV has now been installed in all display areas

• A series of improvements to the Museum's Fire Precautions has been completed

• C-47 Fuselage takes part in some new film work for a major big screen movie!

• Items relating to the Air Gunner of a Halifax bomber that force landed here at Redhill while returning from a raid on Germany have been donated for display.

• The Wings Museum staged it's first official meeting which will now become a regular thing once a month.

• Relatives of Aleksander Pietrzak visit display in honour of pilot of Mustang FX876

• Relatives of Aleksander Pietrzak locate photograph of Mustang FX876 in Poland!

• A huge rescue mission has been carried out by the Wings Museum to rescue the cockpit section of a Fairchild C-119 cockpit and also a C-47 Dakota Fuselage which became threatened when the Council at North Weald Airfield insisted that the areas around the hangers were to be cleared up which resulted in the C-119 and C-47 having to be cleared by a certain date. The Wings Museum stepped in at the last minute and rescued the airframes just in the nick of time.

• Medal group & items to Northumberland Fusilers donated for display

• Remains of Mustang FX876 recovered for display