# WHIRLWIND FIGHTER PROJECT

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1212316
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Other
- **Registered:** Feb. 26, 2025
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1212316


## Contact

- **Address:** 57 BRAMBLEFIELD LANE, KEMSLEY, SITTINGBOURNE, 57 BRAMBLEFIELD LANE, KEMSLEY
- **Postcode:** ME10 2SX
- **Phone:** 07803053016
- **Email:** whirlwindfighterproject@outlook.com
- **Website:** whirlwindfp.org



## Activities

**Objects:** FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION ABOUT THE WHIRLWIND FIGHTER AIRCRAFT AND WW2 AVIATION HISTORY AND HERITAGE BY RECREATING AN AIRCRAFT MODEL FOR DISPLAY, PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND OCCUPATIONAL PROCESSES AND INNOVATIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES.

**Activities:** The primary aim of the Whirlwind Fighter Project is to reproduce a single example of the Westland Whirlwind Mk 1 twin-engine single-seater fighter-bomber aircraft.It is intended that the project will result in a non-airworthy reproduction of the Westland Whirlwind, built to available original plans, with (where possible) original materials.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- **What:** Education/training
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Throughout England




## Trustees

- **David Brocklehurst MBE** (Chair) — appointed Nov. 20, 2022
- Christopher Hayward — appointed Sept. 28, 2015
- Gunnar Olsen — appointed May 24, 2013
- Matthew Bearman — appointed May 24, 2013
- Michael  Wynn Eastman — appointed May 24, 2013
- Peter Geoffrey Lancaster — appointed Oct. 9, 2021
- Peter Smith — appointed Oct. 12, 2021
- Robert Bowater — appointed May 24, 2013