Visit the RAF Museum Cosford this week and view progress on the Handley Page Hampden currently undergoing restoration in our Conservation Centre. The Museum’s Hampden, serial number P1344, is one of only three examples of the type remaining and was recovered from a crash site in northern Russia in 1991 and acquired by the RAF Museum. The night it was shot down (5 September 1942), the aircraft was one of nine aircraft lost out of 32 that departed Sumburgh, Shetland Islands, heading to northern Ru

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