{"id":3215,"date":"2025-08-14T18:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:21:18","slug":"heritage-open-days-at-army-flying-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/heritage-open-days-at-army-flying-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Open Days at Army Flying Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-25\/ArmyFlying-Heritage.jpg\" alt=\"Heritage Open Days at Army Flying Museum\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Every September, thousands of volunteers across England organise a wide range of events to celebrate the history and culture of the country, and the volunteer team from the Army Flying Museum at Middle Wallop in Hampshire is no exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Museum is proud to have a number of knowledgeable and experienced volunteer tour guides who regularly take organised groups on tours of the Museum, charting the history of British Army aviation and regaling visitors with stories of intrigue, personal anecdotes and humour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Established in 1994, Heritage Open Days takes place from the 12-21 September, and brings people together to celebrate their heritage, community and history. Stories are told, traditions explored, and histories brought to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To embrace this, the tour guides at the Army Flying Museum have organised two special tours which will run on the 15<sup>th<\/sup> and 20<sup>th<\/sup> September and are included with the normal Museum entry price and available for any visitor to book.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With their wealth of experience, visitors that have a particular interest in military history won\u2019t fail to be astounded by the breadth of knowledge of the guides, all of which are retired military personnel or military historians.&nbsp; The tours will take visitors on a journey of reconnaissance, communication and combat, whilst highlighting the story of British Army aviation amongst the stunning exhibits and aircraft on display at the Hampshire Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, on 15<sup>th<\/sup> September, tour guide Richard Folkes will introduce a recording of \u2018Pegasus Bridge \u2013 In Their Own Words\u2019.&nbsp; This very special recording contains precious footage of interviews with key participants of this historic era with the audience invited to participate in a Q&amp;A session following the screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 20<sup>th<\/sup> September, visitors will also have the opportunity to watch a special film by military historian, Paul Beaver \u2013 \u2018Spitfire Gifts of War\u2019.&nbsp; The film reveals the story behind the Spitfire Fund and of the local people desperate to play their part in beating the Luftwaffe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In England, Heritage Open Days has expanded and diversified from 701 events at its launch to over 5,000 today, providing countless opportunities for more people to come together and enjoy, often surprising, but always interesting, doorstep discoveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information and to book, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armyflying.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.armyflying.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every September, thousands of volunteers across England organise a wide range of events to celebrate the history and culture of the country, and the volunteer team from the Army Flying Museum at Middle Wallop in Hampshire is no exception. The Museum is proud to have a number of knowledgeable and experienced volunteer tour guides who &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/heritage-open-days-at-army-flying-museum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heritage Open Days at Army Flying 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":[341,330,50,10],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-341","tag-army-flying-museum","tag-august","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","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=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}