The Library

Introduction of COVID-Secure Procedures

The library is not available to the public until further notice

The Peter Wright Memorial Library houses more than 4,000 books and periodicals on all aspects of military aviation, including fine collections of aviators’ biographies, squadron histories, technical manuals, and wartime Air Ministry and Ministry of Information publications.

All our holdings are now on a searchable electronic catalogue. The Library is open to the Friends of the Museum on Wednesdays when our librarian is in attendance to provide assistance, and at other times by special arrangement with the curatorial staff. Friends may borrow books for a period of three weeks.

The Library is not open to casual visitors, but non-members of the Museum may apply to the Curator in advance of a visit to consult items of particular interest.

LATEST NEWS

Museum’s Gift To Mark Gwen Duke’s 100th Birthday

On Friday, 3rd July, Gwendoline Duke, the widow of the Museum’s first Honorary President, Squadron…

Museum Staff Say Goodbye To An Old Friend

On the afternoon of Friday 19 June, many Museum staff gathered outside to pay their…

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BOOKSHOP

The Tangmere Logbook

Back numbers (excluding the current edition) of Tangmere’s biannual magazine The Tangmere Logbook are now…

Tangmere’s Own

TANGMERE’S OWN Pilots Who Served King And Country From A Sussex Airfield, 1918-1958 By David…

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LATEST ARTICLES

Harriers in the 1969 Air Race

In February 1969 Brian Harpur, a director of Harmsworth Publications, owners of the Daily Mail…

‘Big X’ – The Tangmere Connection

On the night of 24/25 March 1944, a mass escape took place from a prisoner-of-war…

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Flight Simulators

All our Flight Simulators are closed until further notice

The Tangmere Museum has 3 computer-controlled Flight Simulators for visitors to ‘fly’.

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Talks by Tangmere

The Museum is able to offer speakers to interested groups or societies on a range of subjects connected with the history of operations at RAF Tangmere and other military aviation subjects.

Further details of the full range of presentations and the availability of speakers can be obtained by calling the museum on 01243 790090, by emailing your interest to director@tangmere-museum.org.uk or by letter marked for the attention of the Director.

Museum Development

The Museum car park has been enlarged and re-laid and audio guides provided with the assistance of LEADER – the European Agricultural Fund for Redevelopment.