{"id":3174,"date":"2025-06-09T20:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:05:26","slug":"cockpit-fest-25-at-newark-air-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/cockpit-fest-25-at-newark-air-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cockpit-Fest 25 at Newark Air Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-25\/Newark-Cockpit-Fest.jpg\" alt=\"Newark Cockpit Fest\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Arrangements for the 2025 Cockpit-Fest are well advanced at Newark Air Museum\u2019s site in eastern Nottinghamshire; close to the border with Lincolnshire. The museum is a registered charity located on part of the former site of RAF Winthorpe; this year\u2019s Cockpit-Fest is once again taking place in its traditional June time-slot; on Saturday 21<sup>st<\/sup> &amp; Sunday 22<sup>nd<\/sup> June, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be the twenty fifth (25<sup>th<\/sup>) time that like-minded enthusiasts have displayed their aircraft cockpit sections at the museum. Cockpit-Fest has become a fixture on the aviation calendar and each year attracts many visiting cockpits and associated displays. Cockpit-Fest allows the owners the chance to display their prized exhibits to their fellow enthusiasts and the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As ever this event will see a diverse range of aviation subjects represented. Plus, in what is a going to be a record turnout, more than forty (40) visiting cockpits and airframes are due to attend the event this year, including military jet cockpits, helicopters and civilian aircraft types.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, nineteen (19) visiting aviation related exhibits will be displayed inside; with twenty (20) special displays outside in different parts of our 16-acre site. Alongside Cockpit-Fest an Aeroboot \/ Aerojumble aviation and avionics sale is being held. Here enthusiasts and the public can search out those missing aviation artefacts, books and models from the thirty-seven (37) sellers who have booked spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\n\n\n<p>Cockpit-Fest also attracts other visiting displays like local history groups; re-enactors; and even more aviation related displays such as clothing and historical artefacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full details about the events and a full list of visiting cockpits and displays can be found on the Museum 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>Arrangements for the 2025 Cockpit-Fest are well advanced at Newark Air Museum\u2019s site in eastern Nottinghamshire; close to the border with Lincolnshire. The museum is a registered charity located on part of the former site of RAF Winthorpe; this year\u2019s Cockpit-Fest is once again taking place in its traditional June time-slot; on Saturday 21st &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/cockpit-fest-25-at-newark-air-museum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cockpit-Fest 25 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":[341,46,184,10],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-341","tag-june","tag-newark-air-museum","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","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=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}