Pedia View . com

Open Source Encyclopedia

Solent Sky

Solent Sky
Solent Sky general view.JPG
Location Southampton, Hampshire
Coordinates
Type Aviation museum
Website http://www.spitfireonline.co.uk

Solent Sky is an aviation museum in Southampton, Hampshire, previously known as Southampton Hall of Aviation.

It depicts the history of aviation in Southampton, the Solent area and Hampshire. There is special focus on the Supermarine aircraft company, based in Southampton, and its most famous products, the Supermarine S.6 seaplane and the Supermarine Spitfire, designed by R. J. Mitchell.

There is also coverage of the Schneider Trophy seaplane races, twice held at Calshot Spit, and the flying boat services which operated from the Solent.

Contents

Exhibits

Aircraft on display

Aircraft on display at the museum include:

Supermarine S.6A, N248 on display.

Engines on display

Alvis Leonides Major on display.

Charity

The work of Solent Sky is supported by a registered charity, the R. J. Mitchell Memorial Museum Limited, whose objects are "to advance the education of the public in matters relating to aviation by establishing and maintaining a museum as a permanent memorial to R. J. Mitchell, the designer of the Schneider Trophy S6B seaplane and the Spitfire."[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ R. J. Mitchell Memorial Museum Limited, Registered Charity no. 262995 at the Charity Commission

External links

Source

Content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with ore reviewed by PediaView.com. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, using material from the Wikipedia article on "Solent Sky", which is available in its original form here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solent_Sky