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Preparations for the 2018 Cockpit-Fest are well underway at Newark Air Museum\u2019s site in eastern Nottinghamshire; close to the border with Lincolnshire. Newark Air Museum is a registered charity located on part of the former site of RAF Winthorpe; its two day Cockpit-Fest event attracts exhibitors from across the UK and Europe, to sample what one former-aviation magazine editor calls \u201cgrass roots aircraft preservation\u201d.<\/p>\n
At this year\u2019s event a diverse range of aviation will be represented. This includes a range of military and civilian cockpits including amongst others: Lightning, Canberra, Hunter, Buccaneer, Brigand and Tempest. These cockpits are amongst many other cockpits from across the history of aviation.<\/p>\n
From its humble beginnings, when a few like-minded enthusiasts first displayed one or two aircraft cockpit sections at the museum; Cockpit-Fest now regularly attracts, many more visiting cockpits and associated displays. Cockpit-Fest allows the owners the chance to display their prized exhibits to their fellow enthusiast and the general public.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s event takes place on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th June; and the event is being staged in last year\u2019s location at the museum, alongside an Aeroboot \/ Aerojumble aviation and avionics sale. Here enthusiasts and the public can search out those aviation artefacts, books and models.<\/p>\n
The event is supported by a range of organisations and individuals; with the visitors being encouraged to have a say in deciding, which is the best cockpit by voting on their favourite display and from these results, prizes are awarded.<\/p>\n
Cockpit-Fest also attracts other visiting displays like local history \/ military vehicle groups; re-enactors; and even more aviation related displays such as clothing and historical artefacts. As an added bonus this year\u2019s event has a flypast on both days by aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.<\/p>\n
Full details about the events can be found on the Museum Events page of the museum website at www.newarkairmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Preparations for the 2018 Cockpit-Fest are well underway at Newark Air Museum\u2019s site in eastern Nottinghamshire; close to the border with Lincolnshire. Newark Air Museum is a registered charity located on part of the former site of RAF Winthorpe; its two day Cockpit-Fest event attracts exhibitors from across the UK and Europe, to sample what … Continue reading Less than a month until Cockpit-Fest at Newark Air Museum<\/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":[295,46,184,10],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-295","tag-june","tag-newark-air-museum","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}