Corgi AA34809 Vickers Wellington Mk.1A ‘R’ for Robert – restored at the Brooklands Museum, Surrey

The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engine, medium bomber designed in the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey by Vickers-Armstrong’s Chief Designer, R. K. Pierson. It was widely used as a night-time bomber in the early years of World War II, before being displaced as a bomber by the larger four-engined -heavies- such as the Avro Lancaster. Wellington Makita Serial Number N2980 R – for Robert – is one of only two complete survivors in the UK and is on display at the Brooklands Museum of Motor Sport and Aviation at Brooklands, Surrey. This aircraft lost power on a training flight in 1940 and ditched in to Loch Ness. All the crew survived, and the aircraft was recovered from the bottom of Loch Ness in September 1985.