WIGHT AVIATION MUSEUM MARKS RE-OPENING WITH SPECIAL TOUR FOR HIGH SHERIFF

Following many months of hard work by the Wight Aviation Museum volunteers, the museum re-opened to public visitors on Saturday (16th March). To help celebrate the opening weekend the team gave a guided tour to the Isle of Wight High Sheriff, Dawn Haig-Thomas. Both the High Sheriff and her husband, Alex, were extremely impressed with all that the Wight Aviation Museum has to offer, celebrating the Island’s extraordinary history in aviation which spans from building the earliest of aircraft in the 1910s, through to giant sea planes, fighter jet aircraft and space rockets. Dawn also learned about extraordinary Island people such as the late Mary Ellis who flew multiple fighter aircraft from the factories to the RAF airfields during WWII. As well as learning about the long and varied history of aviation on the Isle of Wight, Dawn also got a chance to take control of a Beadle Bulldog aircraft using the very latest in VR technology for a virtual flight around the island. The museum, at Sandown Airport, is now open on Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays until the end of October.