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Overview
The Royal Air Force Museum’s Collections Online Navigator contains a selection of records relating to items in the collection. It is not a complete catalogue of the museum’s holdings but offers, for the first time, an opportunity for you to search our database and find out more about the collection we hold in perpetuity for society and the Royal Air Force. We intend to continually improve this site by adding and updating the records and acting on your comments.
Navigator was born out of a longer term project to increase our accountability, accuracy and access to the collection. This is primarily being done through the implementation of a collections management system. As well as supporting our policies and procedures, improving our in-house management and providing an effective means of locating items to help answer enquiries, we are able to share this information much more efficiently. The records you see in Navigator are as a result of this investment.
Within Navigator you can either browse the highlights, undertake a quick search or a more detailed advanced search which allows more precision. There are four views available:
- Gallery - viewing results by a thumbnail image;
- List - viewing results as a text only list;
- Detail - viewing a thumbnail image and any information associated with that item;
- Click on the thumbnail from Detail View to get a larger watermarked image (this will open in a new window).
The current version of Navigator covers records from all aspects of the collection. All records have been selected based on our experience of dealing with enquiries and knowledge of the collection. The home page of Navigator presents a selection of highlights from the collection; some of these items will be expected but others will not immediately spring to mind.
What’s New
The What’s New page is designed to give you a list of material by collection that has been uploaded into Navigator.
Further information on the collections can be found on our main website, please click on a link below (this will open in a new window or tab):
Terms and conditions regarding Navigator
Copyright exists to give the creators of literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, sound recordings, broadcasts, films and typographical arrangement of published editions, rights to control the ways in which their material may be used. The period for which copyright lasts is usually 70 years from the end of the year in which the creator of the work died, but there are variations.
Much of the Royal Air Force Museum’s collection is subject to copyright, and where the Museum does not own copyright to an object it cannot always show images. Unless otherwise stated, all images shown remain the copyright of the Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum. The Museum wishes to thank all of the copyright owners who have allowed use of images of objects on Navigator.
In order to protect copyright, you must not, without the prior written permission of the RAF Museum:
- Copy, download, reproduce, publish, post, transmit, or distribute material from RAF Museum Navigator (the material) in any kind of medium for commercial purposes.
- Extract from, manipulate, alter or modify the material in any way.
- Interfere with any copyright notice originally attached to the material.
- Store the material in any medium including extraction into any other database, computer programme or website.
- Publicly broadcast, display, or present the material.
- Rent, lease or lend the material.
- Commercially publish or exploit the material in any manner.
However, the following uses of material from this site are encouraged:
- Access and print material on a temporary basis for the sole purpose of viewing them for non-commercial personal or educational use.
Please see the Royal Air Force Museum’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy for more information about copyright, and contact the Museum via our Contacts page for details of particular objects in the collection.
Images with © Crown
Some of the images featured on this site are subject to Crown Copyright protection.
The Crown Copyright protected material may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium for research, private study or for internal circulation within an educational organisation (such as schools, colleges and universities). This is subject to the material being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. Where any Crown Copyright items on this site are republished or copied to others, the source of the material must be identified, copyright status acknowledged and object numbers quoted.
Commercial Use
We welcome enquiries from Commercial users; please direct your enquiries as detailed below regardless of any stated copyright status, in all instances quoting the Object Number and relevant Department (e.g. Photographic) from Navigator of the item(s) will allow us to answer your request more efficiently.
For all commercial enquiries please Contact Us
Navigator Queries
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