The world's only surviving combat-veteran Vickers Wellington, N2980 'R-Robert', was moved from its home of the past 31 years to a temporary building at the Brooklands Museum on 15 September as the ￡8.1-million Heritage Lottery Fund-supported Brooklands Aircraft Factory and Race Track Revival Project forged ahead. The 1940-built Bellman hangar that housed N2980 has now been dismantled and is being restored off-site. When it returns in January 2017, the hangar will be relocated to a new position on the museum site, and the Wellington will move back in to form part of the story of aircraft production at Brooklands, covering an 80-year period which began in 1908.
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