Fleet Air Arm Museum


This excellent aviation museum houses hundreds of naval aircraft, from a Sea Fury to Phantom fighters. You can walk on to the flight deck of the first British-built Concorde and take a simulated flight on to the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. The museum is 7 miles north of Yeovil.

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