🏠 IndoorEducational☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Free tarmacked car park on site, about 80 yards walk to the hangar reception.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Spitfire Visitor Centre occupies Hangar 42, a Bellman hangar built for the RAF in 1939 at the edge of Blackpool Airport. Inside, the hangar has been set up as a wartime fighter station, with a replica operations and briefing room, displays of crash relics and a collection of replica Spitfires, a Hawker Hurricane and a Messerschmitt Bf 109E. Visitors can sit in a Spitfire cockpit, and there is a full-size Spitfire flight simulator where you take the controls of a replica Spitfire MKV. Volunteers run the centre and often talk through the exhibits, and there is a WW2-themed NAAFI café on site. It suits older children with an interest in aircraft and history as well as families looking for a rainy-day visit, and the main hangar floor is flat and wheelchair-friendly. Opening days are seasonal and depend on volunteer cover, so check before setting out.
Seasonal: public open days run in spring and autumn, closed December to March.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
Wet wipes
Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.- Sting relief
- Blister plastersNew shoes and a long walk are a bad pairing.
Notebook- Face wipes
Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
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Photos: 維基小霸王, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Renée Kools, CC BY 4.0 · Politikaner, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Donald Trung Quoc Don, CC BY-SA 4.0
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