28 May 2004 - On 25th May 2004 a rare cockpit section from a Blackburn Beverley C.1 transport aircraft joined Newark Air Museum’s extensive aircraft collection. The cockpit, from XB261, comprises the flight deck and navigation compartment and has been acquired from the Duxford Aviation Society. The cockpit will be displayed in the Museum's new Aircraft Display Hangar in time for CockpitFest 2004.

23 April 2004 - The International Cockpit Club announce the intention to award a commemorative shield at CockpitFest in memory of Robert Rudhall.

Hopefully this will encourage greater attendance from 'work in progress' cockpits which will demonstrate to visitors the restoration process and work required.

20 February 2004 - The ICC Forum now has two new categories (For Sale and Wanted) where members can post their own For Sale and Wanted adverts. The For Sale and Wanted pages on the main website will continue to operate as before and are able to display a small photograph along with the advert whereas the forum entries are not.

12 November 2003 - Please see the letter here from Newark Air Museum detailing the revised format of the CockpitFest weekend for 2004.

We have also received information sheets with additional details for intended participants of CockpitFest 2004.
There are seperate sheets for each of the two categories within the event,

17 September 2003 - Sadly, both the Cockpit Open Day to be held at Farnborough Air Sciences Trust on 11th October 2003 and the Cockpit Rally intended for Manchester International Airport have been cancelled.
A very disappointing lack of interest and support from ICC members and from certain other quarters has meant that neither event can realistically go ahead. This is a tremendous shame as both offered the chance to make aircraft and cockpit preservation accessible to a wide and varied audience and has been the result of a great deal of work by all concerned to organise.

3 August 2003 - Announcing a new cockpit event! Farnborough Air Sciences Trust have invited ICC members to display their cockpits at an Open Day on 11th October 2003. See here for further details.

16 June 2003 - For those who were unable to attend Cockpitfest 2003 at Newark Air Museum on 14th & 15th June, see the Cockpitfest 2003 Photo Review for a taste of what you missed.
Although visiting cockpit numbers were down compared to last year and a number of the promised participants were unable to attend, many more of the museum resident's cockpits were opened up for inspection. In addition, Vulcan XM594 had it's bomb bay doors and airbrakes exercised while the Auxilliary Power Unit was run up.
A number of interesting changes are planned for the 2004 event so watch this space!
Comments welcome in the forum.

10 June 2003 - The latest confirmed attendance list for CockpitFest 2003 at Newark Air Museum is as follows;

• de Havilland Vampire (x2)
• Hawker Hunter (x2)
• Gloster Meteor
• Westland Scout
• Sepecat Jaguar T.2A
• E.E. Canberra B.2
• E.E. Canberra PR.9 (permanent museum resident)
• E.E. Canberra T.17 (permanent museum resident)
• McDonnell-Douglas Phantom (cockpit rig)
• Hunting Jet Provost T.3
• Vickers Valiant
• North American Harvard (restoration project)
• Supermarine Spitfire (instrument panel)
• Supermarine Spitfire IX (instrument panel)
• Hawker Typhoon (instrument panel)
• Avro Lancaster (instrument panel)
• de Havilland Dragon Rapide (instrument panel)
• SARO Princess Flying Boat G-ALUN (instrument panel)
• S.A. Twin Pioneer (instrument panel)
• B-17 (instrument panel)
• B-24 (instrument panel)
• F-4 Phantom simulator

14 February 2003 - A new article, written for the ICC website by Mick Jennings, has been added to the Articles, Hints & Tips section and gives an insight into the work and methods of the cockpit preservation team at RAF Coltishall.