A day trip to – The Gatwick Aviation Museum

On the far side of Gatwick Airport is a museum, partly about the airport, but mainly about the military side of aviation.
It’s on a side road in an area that apart from the occasional roar of a plane taking off could well be a rural countryside retreat. The first thing you notice when walking down the drive to the entrance is the smell – not of planes and oil, but cow dung. We’re on a farm, and the collection here was originally started by the farmer who bought planes and kept