PRESS RELEASE ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE DE HAVILLAND AIRCRAFT MUSEUM, HOME OF THE MOSQUITO AIRCRAFT MUSEUM Date: July 6th, 2016 REFURBISHMENT of this sectioned de Havilland Gipsy Major 1 petrol engine is nearing completion at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum at Salisbury Hall, London Colney, Herts. Volunteers Peter Coard (left) and Roderick Coleman are pictured here checking torque settings of the bearings of the crankshaft, which had been removed when the entire engine was dismantled for checking. The unit, which does not have a serial number, is believed to have been built by de Havilland at its Hatfield factory
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PRESS RELEASE ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE DE HAVILLAND AIRCRAFT MUSEUM, HOME OF THE MOSQUITO AIRCRAFT MUSEUM Date: June 21st, 2016 TWO FRENCH aeronautical engineering undergraduates have become the first ever Interns at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum at Salisbury Hall, London Colney. They joined the museum, the country’s oldest and only one dedicated to a single aircraft manufacturer, last week. (WEEK BEGINNING JUNE 20TH) With three years of their five-year degree course behind them, the Laval University, Paris, pair Quentin Andres and Gregory Nicol, both 20, are enthusiastic about working with the volunteers restoring and preserving some of Britain’s
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PRESS RELEASE ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE DE HAVILLAND AIRCRAFT MUSEUM, HOME OF THE MOSQUITO AIRCRAFT MUSEUM Date: May 6th, 2016 WITH the arrival of another of the historic Comet of the 1950s the de Havilland Aircraft Museum now has four examples of the Hatfield-designed and built world’s first commercial jet passenger aircraft. The nose section of the Comet, registered to British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) as G-ANAV, has been donated to the museum by the Science Museum, and it is planned to make it a major “hands-on” attraction at the popular family day-out venue at Salisbury Hall, London Colney.
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PRESS RELEASE ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE DE HAVILLAND AIRCRAFT MUSEUM, HOME OF THE MOSQUITO AIRCRAFT MUSEUM Date: March 11th, 2016 AIRCRAFT restoration volunteers have been putting in Herculean efforts to ensure that their museum was not only ready to open to the public on Sunday 6th March but was also totally reorganised for construction work to start on the foundations of a big new hangar. In the space of just two months the de Havilland Aircraft Museum at Salisbury Hall, London Colney, has had a large temporary hangar erected on a new extension to the site and many of
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TWO civic leaders officially started a major development project at the country’s oldest aircraft museum on Tuesday, April 5th, 2016.. And after they had dug special spades into the ground to ceremonially start work on the newdisplay hangar at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum at London Colney, the Deputy Mayor of Hertsmere, Cllr Peter Rutledge, and Deputy Mayor Cllr Jane West announced that the Heritage Lottery Fund had just given the museum permission to start developing its detailed proposals as part of its application for £1.5million funding for the project. “This museum is a very special place, and is crucial
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                 CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF THE ONE AND ONLY MOSQUITO SEVENTY-five years ago to the minute it was rolled out of its hangar for its maiden flight, the prototype of one of Britain’s most iconic aeroplanes reprised that event on Wednesday (November 25th). The de Havilland Mosquito, glistening in its newly applied paintwork at the end of a five-year full restoration project aided by a £41,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant, is the star resident at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum in the grounds of historic Salisbury Hall, London Colney, Herts. Its 75th anniversary
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