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Words: Keith Wilson
Have you been to England’s de Havilland museum yet? If not, you need to. For a nice day out, start with breakfast at the Ace Cafe on the North Circular−the original ring road around London. It’s the place where café-racer motorbikes got their name in the ’50s (bikers racing from one cafe to another.) Then proceed north to the London Colney intersection of the M25. Sixty seconds from there is Salisbury Hall, which de Havilland made its base in the late ’30s and is now home to the original ‘wooden wonder’, the prototype Mosquito. (On one of the data plates at the museum is a quote from an admirer, calling the Mosquito ‘a nice piece of woodwork’.)
The DH 110 Sea Vixen FAW.2 at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum.
- Credit: Garry Lakin 2017
Is it lift-off yet for our aviation museum celebrating the heritage of the de Havilland company?
There’s quite a bit of activity going on at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum, where hopes are that it could be welcoming visitors back in time for Easter.
A museum spokesman said: It would be wonderful to see visitors once more checking out some of the most important and remarkable aeroplanes – all of them local – which created lots of records.
The museum is situated in the grounds of Tudor mansion Salisbury Hall at London Colney.
The DH 110 Sea Vixen FAW.2 at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum.
- Credit: Garry Lakin 2017
Is it lift-off yet for our aviation museum celebrating the heritage of the de Havilland company?
There’s quite a bit of activity going on at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum, where hopes are that it could be welcoming visitors back in time for Easter.
A museum spokesman said: It would be wonderful to see visitors once more checking out some of the most important and remarkable aeroplanes – all of them local – which created lots of records.
The museum is situated in the grounds of Tudor mansion Salisbury Hall at London Colney.