The de Havilland Aircraft Museum at London Colney received a new year boost on 10 January with the announcement of an initial award of ￡62,200 from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards its ￡1.5-million project to build a new hangar. The building will replace the old Robin Hangar, in which Mosquito prototype W4050 was exhibited for many years. It will be linked to the existing main exhibition hangar, built in the early 1980s. Conditions for conservation work will thus be improved and a better space provided in which to tell the story of de Havilland aircraft, enabling greater access for wider audiences and offering capacity for volunteering, learning and skills development. By latejanuary a temporary storage marquee was erected at the museum, which will permit all the exhibits from the Robin Hangar - including DH87 Hornet Moth G-ADOT, an Airspeed Horsa fuselage, DH82B Queen Bee LF789 and many models - to be housed while the old building is dismantled for disposal. Work on the new hangar is expected to start by the middle of March.
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