Upcoming and recent visits :

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If you are interested in any of these MKAS Visits, or if you have any suggestions for any future MKAS visits, please contact Daren Eaton by e-mail at dareneaton@btinternet.com.

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Sunday November 2nd 2025

Walking tour around RAF Bottisham and Heritage Centre

This WW II airfield, 3 miles from Cambridge, was home to RAF, USAAF and Belgian AF units and we will take walking tour of the airfield as well as visiting its Heritage Centre

 

Cost will be £10 and we will start at 11.00

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Wednesday November 26th 2025

Social evening

 

Come along to the Old Beams in Milton Keynes for a beer and a chat with fellow members from around 19.30

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Wednesday February 11th 2026

RAF Wyton Heritage Centre

The centre hosts the Pathfinder Collection dedicated to the No.8 Pathfinder Group - during WW2 Wyton was the main Pathfinder airfield.

 

As the centre in on the military base , you will need ID and only those booked on the tour can enter as all details are required beforehand. 

 

The tour will start at 10am and whilst there is no entry free, all donations on the day are most welcome.

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Saturday April 18th 2026

Vulcan XM655 at Wellesbourne Mountford​

We have a tour of this magnificent machine (including cockpit access) starting at 10.00 and we can then hopefully visit the Wellesbourne Wartime Museum and enjoy lunch in the airfield cafe.

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The cost will be £20.​

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Recent visits​​

Tuesday March 19th 2024

DHL Air Operations Hub at East Midlands Airport

DHL’s operation at East Midlands Airport is one of Europe’s busiest air cargo facilities. Every night dozens of flights arrive and depart and we were able to see how this all comes together and tour the ramp.

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Sunday March 24th 2024

Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets Collection

Despite the loss of the runway at Bruntingthorpe for taxi runs, the collection remains largely intact and we were invited to spend a morning looking at the aircraft at close quarters – Lightning, Hunter, Venom, Canberra, Buccaneer and more. We were also lucky to  witness a Hunter cartridge start - lots of smoke!

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Wednesday April 17th 2024

RAF Wattisham Station Heritage Museum

The base has housed many squadrons and aircraft since 1939 including Apaches nowadays plus Blenheims, P-38 and EE Lightnings, Javelins, Phantoms, Meteors and Hunters with examples of the last three all in the museum.

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​Friday October 18th 2024

Military Intelligence Museum, Chicksands 

It was 10 years since we had last visited this excellent museum. In addition to its wider role of recording the history of military intelligence in general, the collection covers the history of military aerial photographic interpretation (PI) and imagery analysis (IA) from its beginnings, through World Wars One and Two, up to the present day.

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Sunday March 16th and Sunday April 6th 2025

Upper Heyford airfield tours

Most famous as the home for over 20 years to the USAF’s F-111 strike force in Europe, the airfield has been closed now for over 30 years but much of the base infrastructure remains and we enjoyed a guided tour around the airfield to see how it used to operate in its heyday.

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Wednesday April 16th 2025

Martin-Baker at Denham​

Last year's visit was greatly over-subscribed so our hosts kindly agreed to another group visiting this year. 

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Wednesday May 7th 2025

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at Coningsby​

We arranged a private tour of the Flight to get up close to their Spitfires, Hurricanes, Lancaster, Dakota and Chipmunks and those who look after them. A group also continued on to to East Kirkby after lunch when Lancaster “Just Jane” made some taxi runs.

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Wednesday June 4th 2025

Old Warden after hours​

After similar events a few years ago, we arranged another after hours, behind the scenes tour of the Shuttleworth Collection and its workshop. 

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Thursday July 3rd

RAF Air Defence Radar Museum at Neatishead

An afternoon visit to this museum covering the history of air defence in the UK, and in particular the development of radar from the 1930s until the end of the Cold War. The museum includes a complete Cold War era Operations Room from which the air defence of Britain was conducted for several decades.

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Sunday August 3rd 2025

RAF Coltishall Heritage Centre

 RAF Coltishall has a rich history with Javelins, Lightnings and Jaguars gracing its runways post-war until its closure in 2006. Our visit began with an illustrated talk followed by a tour of the station and we then returned to the Heritage Centre for a look around.

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Wednesday September 10th 2025

RAF Marham and RAF Sculthorpe Heritage Centres

A two-part visit beginning in the morning at RAF Marham in the morning and them moving onto RAF Sculthorpe (25 miles away) for the afternoon. Both bases are rich with history and Sculthorpe has a clandestine side to it with RAF marked B-45 Tornadoes used to overfly Western Russia in the early 1950s.

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October 10/11 2025

Berlin

After our successful trip to Krakow, we spent a few days in Berlin to include a visit to the excellent Military History Museum at Gatow and a tour of the iconic Tempelhof airport with its recently restored FW.200 Condor.