{"id":1518,"date":"2018-03-16T11:11:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2018-03-16T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:11:20","slug":"100th-anniversary-of-raf-open-cockpits-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/100th-anniversary-of-raf-open-cockpits-day\/","title":{"rendered":"100th Anniversary of RAF Open Cockpits Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-18\/Newark-Cfest.jpg\" alt=\"Newark Air Museum Cockpit Fest\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 1st April 2018, at Newark Air Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday 1st April 2018 the Newark Air Museum is organising an event to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force (RAF).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to giving visitors the opportunity to view the cockpits and interiors of many of the museum\u2019s collection of RAF aircraft, cockpits and CIMs; the event will also feature a host of visiting displays. The event will be open to the public from10am until 5pm (last admission at 4pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cockpits and aircraft may not be open at all times during the day and access will depend on the availability of the museum\u2019s team of volunteer cockpit openers. A small additional donation will be requested for access into the aircraft and cockpits.<\/p>\n<p>As of 15.03.18 the supporting \/ visiting displays include:<\/p>\n<p>Museum model aircraft display in Hangar 1<br \/>\nMainly Military Models display in Hangar 2<br \/>\nRAF Recruiting posters display from the Museum Archive<br \/>\nRAF Balderton Memorial Group<br \/>\nWAAF 1940s display<br \/>\nAir Sea Rescue &amp; Marine Craft Club, displays of marine craft models &amp; storyboards<br \/>\nCanberra PR7 test cockpit<br \/>\nPhantom cockpit XV490 \u2013 with David Gledhill<br \/>\nWingless Wonders cockpit display \u2013 Buccaneer XZ431; P1127 XV280 &amp; 2 LWB Land Rovers<br \/>\nHS125 cockpit G-AVAI<br \/>\nAirfield Research Group<\/p>\n<p>The event is open to everyone and normal museum admission rates will apply:<br \/>\nAdults \u00a39.00; Over 65&#8217;s \u00a38.00; Children \u00a34.50; and Family ticket [2 adults &amp; 3 children] \u00a324.00.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">{A small additional fee \/ donation will be applicable when going inside the museum aircraft \u2013 this will go towards funding the restoration &amp; refurbishment of our aircraft.}<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Please telephone 01636 707170 if you require any further information; regular updates will also appear on the Events Page of the museum website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newarkairmuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.newarkairmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 1st April 2018, at Newark Air Museum On Sunday 1st April 2018 the Newark Air Museum is organising an event to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force (RAF). In addition to giving visitors the opportunity to view the cockpits and interiors of many of the museum\u2019s collection of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/100th-anniversary-of-raf-open-cockpits-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">100th Anniversary of RAF Open Cockpits Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[295,61,184,10],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-295","tag-march","tag-newark-air-museum","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}