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Locking Moor Road, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS24 8PP

Located at the entrance to the museum buildings. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3105738

A notice in the cabin window states: The helicopter doors have been locked. To prevent damage do not attempt to open any doors. Thank you.

Viewed from Locking Moor Road (A371). The collection of rotary wing aircraft is located in what was a centre of Bristol and Westland helicopter production from 1955 to 2002.

Entrance to the museum car park off Locking Moor Road.

The museum houses a collection of rotary wing aircraft, located in a site that was a centre of Bristol and Westland helicopter production from 1955 to 2002.

Advertised as 'Britains only Helicopter Museum'.

Viewed along Locking Moor Road (A371) looking towards Locking. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3105716 to a view of the sign on the back of this sign.

Westland Wessex HCC Mk.4 on display at the Helicopter Museum. This aircraft, XV733, was the second HCC Mk.4 aircraft to be delivered to the Queen's Flight at Benson, Oxfordshire, in June 1969. In August 1977 it became the first helicopter to carry The Queen, when it flew her from HMS Antrim to Northern Ireland for a two day visit in her Silver Jubilee Year. Following the disbandment of The Queen's Flight in 1995, XV733 continued its VIP role with No.32 (The Royal) Squadron at RAF Northolt until 1998, when it was retired and placed in storage. It was purchased by the museum in 2001.

Here is the site of where Weston Airport first started (some of the wooden buildings were cleared about five years ago) though the ever present M.O.D brick and render building can be seen. These would have been erected early in its RAF period though I suspect the maintenance hangar to the right is probably older. See this link for views of some of the buildings that went and some that still cling on http://www.controltowers.co.uk/W-Z/Weston_Super_Mare.htm

These buildings, and a remaining hangar are all that remain of Weston Airfield. Built in the 1930s, the airfield saw brief success before the War - especially with a shuttle service to Cardiff, where the Sunday service was especially busy since the pubs were closed on Sundays in Cardiff... Converted to an RAF base during the war and then the main site for U.K. Helicopter manufacture until decline in the 1980s. Although these buildings are now derelict, nearby is the Helicopter Museum, which has a most impressive collection of retired and restored helicopters.