Wight Aviation Museum — Attraction in England

Sandown Airport is a great place to visit, with the Aviation Museum in its grounds. Test your flying skills on one of the two flight simulators. Or you can have the real thing, and book yourself some flying lessons at the airport. Also, gain knowledge of flight through the ages.. As you enter the grounds, there is a life-size replica of Black Knight, the UK’s first satellite, into space. Its engines were tested on the island above the Needles. Enjoy the volunteers' helpful, expertise and knowledge. It's a great day out, watch the light aircraft landing and takeing off. Book a meal, the Sunday Dinner is a favourite meal of ours. Or just sit with a drink, alcoholic or a cuppa. There are also themed weekends, such as Sqid games, the mini rallies of hundreds of mini cars from the 60s. This place is a little gem......

Quite interesting if your into that sort of thing but to be told that it's free entry but we expect a minimum of £4 donation is abit cheeky also on your way out there was a sign saying don't forget your donation we felt like we had been forced to donate money to them so really it should say £4 entry they need too be more informative with the information they provide on entry and I'm not being funny a donation is a donation your a charity why does it have to be £4 I'm doing the donation so i should be able to choose the amount??????? But apart from that lots of information about old air craft and old local ww2 stuff and they even have a small helicopter that was quite cool if it wasn't for my small rant yeah would be quite a good look just an...

A excellent small but so informative museum. Plus it's all housed inside an aircraft hanger situated at Sandown Airport, Free to get in, but donations are accepted. It has so much memobila plus photos of war planes plus commercial ones as well, and plenty of artefacts as well. There was even a scaledown ops room where you see how squadrons dealt with attacks by enemy planes. The highlight for me was at the end where you pay £3 (June 2024 prices) to fly a plane? Actually you sit inside a statutory plane and with the help of a member of staff put on a pair of VR googles and take off and fly, It's so realistic you can even see moving vehicles and people down below. The staff are fantastic, so kind and welcoming, They...