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The Royal Air Force Air Defence Radar Museum is a museum on the site of the former Royal Air Force Air Defence Radar Museum
The Royal Air Force Air Defence Radar Museum is a museum on the site of the former Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...
radar and control base RAF Neatishead
Remote Radar Head Neatishead ( ), and commonly abbreviated RRH Neatishead, is an air defence radar site operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). It is located approximately north-east of Norwich in the county of Norfolk, England.
Originally kno ...
, close to the village of Horning
Horning is an ancient village and Civil parish, parish in the English county of Norfolk.
It covers an area of 11 km2 and had a population of approximately 1,100 in the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census. Horning parish lies on the n ...
in Norfolk
Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...
, England.
The museum's exhibitions cover the history of air defence in the United Kingdom, in particular the development of radar
Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance ('' ranging''), direction ( azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It is a radiodetermination method used to detect and track ...
from the 1930s until the end of the Cold War
The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...
. The museum includes a complete Cold War-era Operations Room from which the air defence of Britain was conducted for several decades, as well as many examples of original radar and communications equipment, and an exhibit of a Royal Observer Corps
The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over Great Britain. It operated in the United Kingdom between 29 October 1925 and 31 Decembe ...
Nuclear Reporting Post. There is also a gallery devoted to the history of the nearby RAF Coltishall
Royal Air Force Coltishall more commonly known as RAF Coltishall is a former Royal Air Force List of former Royal Air Force stations, station located north-north-east of Norwich, in the England, English Counties of the United Kingdom, county ...
.
The Museum is largely staffed by volunteers, many of whom served previously in the RAF.
The Museum is a registered charity, number 1058887.Charity Commission
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's Government that regulates registered charities in England and Wales and maintains the Central Register of Charities. Its counterparts in Scotland and ...
. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
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* Military and war museums in England Charities based in Norfolk North Norfolk Museums in Norfolk {{UK-aerospace-museum-stub