Last visit 27 November 2009  (see "news & links")

This unofficial website gives a regularly updated snapshot of the museum's collection of aircraft and military vehicles, also a regular status check on the many privately owned warbirds and armoured vehicles resident at Duxford and on public display. 

Use the navigation buttons on the left to tour the site.  The "news & links" page has photos from the most recent visit.  The "DX Base Tour" walks visitors less familiar with the base around the main buildings. Photos of the exhibits are arranged by location on the museum site.  The Air Display pages cover recent Duxford flying events. The Gallery includes some shots from past news pages. Vintage Duxford shows past residents and "Other Museums" includes images from some of the best of the other aviation and military vehicle collections in the U.K. "Battle of the Beams" and "Chain Home" are a small diversion into early electronics warfare.

Photo-walk-throughs of the 4 Duxford resident bombers illustrated below plus the Lancaster, are also provided. 

For details of forthcoming air displays and other visitor information, see also the official IWM website (click here).

Comments and suggestions for the site are always welcomed........ The name is Martin and I can be contacted on email via duxfordupdate@googlemail.com

I began the website with a low-end Canon SLR film camera in 2002. It proved a bit of an expensive hobby with film and processing costs plus the time taken to scan prints into the website.  Digital  was the obvious way to go!  A Canon A70 was my first digi-cam.  Only 3 megapixels and it needed a monopod to reduce camera shake in the dark of hangar 2... but it enabled me to transform the web site and eliminated film processing time and costs. Now I use a Canon 400D SLR.. At 10 megapixels, it's a bit over the top for web shots, but if I'm careful, its possible to get really good A3 size prints ....An image stabilized lens has now replaced that monopod in hangar 2, but the main challenge these days, is to improve on my panning technique with the telephoto lens for flying prop driven aircraft. I don't get many pin-sharp full-frame results, with lots of prop blur..... but just occasionally, it does all come together successfully. If I could manage that most of the time, then I would really feel that I'd arrived......Ah well dream on....and keep trying!