A great little museum to visit, plenty for children to climb on and experience. Friendly staff given plenty of information as we paid about what is going on in there. Great big field for picnics where you can see planes taking off for the airport. My 2 boys thoroughly enjoyed it. One with ADHD & ASD ideal size for him to explore.

A lovely day, although a bit wet. The volunteers are very approachable and knowledgeable. Also very friendly and helpful. We will definitely be back. I had three kids. 14, 12 and 11. Great to look round various planes and engines.

A museum well worth a visit, Cold War Jets being the theme ranging from the Venom to the mighty Lightning. Many models and aero engines on display. Friendly staff willing to discuss the exhibits in detail.

Really enjoyable visit. Fun interactive exhibits. Excellent presentations from both Mike’s on the Shackleton MR3, Gerry knowledgeable on Virgin A350, Dave on BUA. Disappointed there was no cafe & a foot path from Gatwick would save getting buses & trains. Thanks Gerry for a lift back to Gatwick Hilton.

Enthusiastic, informative and funny group of guides whose interest in aircraft was contagious. On Friday we spent several hours at the museum asking questions about different types of aircraft through the ages, the old way of navigation, the black box, RAF and Commercial planes, searching for survivors at sea, hunting for submarines. On the Shackleton MR3 we met a crew member and a Squadron leader( the 2 Mikes) of who’s stories will remain with us forever

This small museum has some cool hands on activities such as - Virgin Air business class pods training "plane"! And the cold War plane tour! The people running the museum were very friendly and knowledgeable! Thanks for the great day!

From the moment we arrived to a friendly welcome till the moment we left it was a lot of fun and interest. We laughed lots as the grandchildren played in the cockpits of a small plane and helicopter. A tour around a Shackleton by a very nice chap was excellent. Close up to Harrier is quite an experience too. Finished off with a sit in Upper class of a Virgin training cabin and a walk around the history of Gatwick with such names as Dan Air and Air Europe of a bygone age. A cup of coffee and piece of cake before heading home. We'll done you volunteers for a cracking day out.

Very interesting museum with loads of fantastic aircraft, a Harrier and Lightning being particular highlights. We were greeted at the Museum door by Tony, a friendly retired aircraft engineer from Fife, who kindly offered to show us around. This was all free of charge and made the visit so much better as he was happy to answer loads of questions (even the stupid ones). Well worth a visit.

We had a fabulous visit to The Gatwick Aviation museum as part of a cubs visit. We had arranged for a large group to visit one Saturday in March. It was well organised from the admin staff to the volunteer guides. The guides were patient, very knowledgeable and couldn’t do enough to accommodate us. Everyone left having said they’d had such a good afternoon. Thank you very much for a pleasant time!

I visited this museum with my wife on Friday 31 March while on our way home from Brighton. What a pleasure this was. I had previously been here in 2016 and it was pleasing to see how much the museum had developed in that time, bearing in mind that this is run by volunteers. An adjacent building to the existing one had been renovated and put to good use. This one has the visitor reception area a small café and shop as well as a large meeting room which includes many artefacts telling the story of Gatwick and the airlines which had flown out of there. All very well and neatly displayed, telling the story and bringing back memories of travelling to sunny destinations by airlines such as Air Europe. The original museum building now holds a cabin crew training simulator provided by Virgin as well as all the original aircraft and exhibits. Work continues on their preservation which is good to see. I was very pleased to see two "old friends" in the form of the Hawker Sea Hawk and the Gloster Meteor T7 which I had first come across displayed at the now long gone Historic Aircraft Museum at Southend. The Hawker Sea Hawk was the first aircraft acquired by Peter Vallance, the founder of the Gatwick Museum, now sadly passed away. The volunteers certainly make the visit enjoyable as they are exceedingly knowledgeable and keen to tell you about their experiences either on the ground at Gatwick or in the air. In the latter case, we had the privilege to talk for some time with a 90 yr old young Sqn Leader Mike Rankin who talked about flying the Shackelton, some times at the limits of its endurance and the Meteor which had a tendency to "bite back". The volunteers do have varied alternative interests, one such being "Dave" who is a beekeeper who gave us a fascinating lecture about honey bees, bumble bees, wasps and honey production. We just had to purchase a jar of honey - proceeds to the museum and I also acquired a pre-owned book, again with proceeds to the museum. In all we spent around 4 hours in the museum, much longer than anticipated. Thank you to all the volunteers who made the visit so pleasurable