Royal Air Force Museum London
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Lancaster “S-Sugar”
Most-flown RAF LancasterAvro Lancaster R5868 - code ‘S for Sugar’ - survived 137 sorties with Bomber Command, a remarkable wartime record.
📍 Main WWII hangar
Spitfire & Hurricane
Icons of 1940See the RAF’s classic duo side-by-side and trace how each airframe evolved through the war years.
📍 Battle of Britain displays
Grahame-White Factory
1917 aircraft worksStep inside an original WWI factory at Hendon - London’s pioneering aerodrome since 1911 - where early aircraft were built and tested.
📍 Historic building, site edge
Jet Age Line-up
From propellers to afterburnersTrack post-war innovation through British jets and trainers that transformed RAF flying after 1945.
📍 Cold War/jet hangars
Hendon Heritage
Birthplace of London aviationHendon staged air races and Britain’s first aerial derby in 1912 - crowds of hundreds of thousands watched from these fields.
📍 Site trail & panels
Opening Hours
🤓 Fun Facts
The museum opened in 1972 on the former Hendon Aerodrome - a civil airfield first laid out in 1911.
Avro Lancaster R5868 ‘S for Sugar’ flew 137 operations in WWII, making it one of Bomber Command’s most active survivors.
Entry is free and the London site sits a short walk from Colindale Underground (Northern line).
Hendon hosted the Aerial Derby from 1912, with air displays drawing crowds estimated at 500,000.
Across its sites, the RAF Museum displays scores of aircraft from early biplanes to modern jets in climate-controlled hangars.
