The RAF Defford Museum opened on Sunday September 28th 2014 and fulfilled a long cherished dream of Veterans of RAF Defford.
Plans were put in place to start building work in early Spring 2014 on the restoration of the Decontamination Annexe of RAF Defford in Croome Park to accommodate the ?RAF Defford Museum?. The restoration of the building was funded by the generosity of Severn Waste Serves, based in Evesham, through the Landfill Community Scheme.
On May 16th 2014, the restored Decontamination Annexe was formally handed over to the National Trust at Croome by the contractors, Croft Building and Conservation. The historic building has been restored externally to its 1942 appearance, but adapted internally to house the Museum.
A second former RAF building which had housed the Ambulance Garage and the Mortuary, has now been restored, thanks to the generosity of a private donor, and opened to the public in February 2016. The former Ambulance Garage now houses the cockpit and forward fuselage of Canberra WD956 which finished its days as a grounded training simulator at RRE Pershore after the move from Defford. Also in this building is an exhibition about Defford in the Cold War years and ?what happened next? following the move to Pershore after Defford closed for flying in 1957 (because the main runway was not long enough or strong enough to take the new V-bombers then coming into service). The former Mortuary houses the Museum Store, and is not open to the visitors.