![]() ![]() I created a building to house them in that had a capacity of 30 military vehicles. ![]() “At one point, I had 13 military vehicles. “Once I bought a second tank, I slowly started to buy more,” Starks recalled. ![]() Restoring it may have been a “frustrating process,” as Starks described it, but it didn’t stop him from buying his second tank in 2014. “When I got the opportunity to buy this rusted-out relic of a tank, I just jumped on it, thinking, ‘wouldn’t that be something to be able to restore it and drive it in the Dubois Fourth of July parade!’” “I had no idea a civilian could own a tank,” Starks said. Starks, a retired CEO of a Fortune 500 company, said he bought his first tank in 2010. Incredibly story ONLY at 10p #KSLTV #Utah /MCR4itLrR3 You simply won’t believe WHERE this museum is…and how it came together. Visitors can also see 15 Rolls Royce Merlin aircraft engines, which were recovered from crash sites in Britain, as well as 11 other military vehicles such as a Ford ambulance and armoured cars.It looks like the kind of place you’d visit in Washington, D.C. Its largest building is the Stuart-Buttle Hangar, which contains full-sized replicas of Hurricane and Spitfire planes built for The Battle of Britain 1968 film, filmed at Hawkinge. Today, the Kent Battle of Britain Museum boasts the world’s largest Battle of Britain collection, including artefacts from over 700 crashed aircraft. Mike would later travel about Kent finding wreckages to include in the museum, which opened in 1982 at Hawkinge airfield. As a child, Mike and his brother would play at Gravesend’s old airfield and would collect bits of old planes. The museum itself started as a private collection of relics from the Battle of Britain belonging to Mike Llewellyn. Located in Hawkinge, England, the Kent Battle of Britain Museum is a space dedicated to aviation history and as the name suggests, the 1940 Battle of Britain. ![]()
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