This museum is a centre of aviation archaeology. The Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum’s staff have spent years studying and retrieving the wreckage of wrecked planes. These relics are now proudly on exhibit, complete with historical background. Photographs, uniforms, engines, weapons, and a variety of other artefacts linked to military and civil aviation during the previous century are also on show. The museum houses the remnants of numerous British and German aircraft that were crashed during World War II. There were no survivors in many cases of the incident, the reason of which can only be speculated.
Thirty years after the Second World War ended, the government agreed to enable organisations of aviation archaeology enthusiasts to request licences allowing excavation to take place in recognised crash sites. The planes may be salvaged as long as no human remains were found in the wreck, as every crash site containing human remains was deemed a war cemetery.
