7 April 2025Kent Battle of Britain Museum becomes world’s largest collection on the Battle of France Air Battles.

Sunday 6th April 2025 and the day that the Kent Battle of Britain Museum Trust at Hawkinge became the largest Battle of France Air Battle Museum as well as the largest Battle of Britain Museum in the World!

Museum Curator Dave Brocklehurst MBE has been negotiating for around a year to acquire five aircraft engines recovered from aircraft shot down during the early stages of the Battle of France. So today, Sunday 6th April 2025, three Rolls Royce Merlin engines (a Merlin Mk. II, and two Merlin Mk. III’s) from Hurricanes, a Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasp engine from a Curtis Hawk 75, and a Hispano-Suiza 12Y from a Dewoitine 520 arrived fresh from France.