Reserve Collection

Just across the road from the Fleet Air Arm Museum is the Museum's Reserve Collection.  The Reserve Collection is larger than many other entire aircraft museums and is housed in a Heritage Lottery funded climate-controlled building called Cobham Hall.

Cobham Hall opens to the public at least once a year when it attracts visitors from all over the UK to see its unique collection of aircraft, records and artefacts, many of which have never before been seen on public display.

Within Cobham Hall there are over thirty historic aircraft and some five miles of shelving accommodating many of the museum's 2 million records and 30 thousand artefacts.

Cobham Hall also houses one of the largest collections of Westland Helicopters including a Whirlwind and a Wasp and the Gazelle helicopter in which HRH The Duke of York learnt to fly.  Other aircraft include a de Havilland Sea Vixen and the first swept wing jet aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier, a Supermarine 510.

The aircraft housed in Cobham Hall are in various stages of preservation or repair.