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Eye-to-eye with classic planes at the Flying Museum
It is often those small museums where a family can have the best time, and the Seppe Flying Museum is one of them. The collection is well-organised and varied, matching children's excitement levels (and their parents' energy).
Impressive crates
It's all about the planes, of course. The Flying Museum features photogenic classics with evocative names like Piper Cub and Tiger Moth, Boeing Stearman and Saab Safir.
These are not the jets you know from your city trip or sun holiday. These are human-sized planes. Two-seaters and four-seaters. Double-deckers, high-deckers, low-deckers. Welds and rivets, instruments and buttons. Star engine behind the propeller, cylinders in plain sight. Everything you see breathes adventure!
Look into the cockpit
The best way is to take a guided tour from one of the volunteers. They know the crates, point out interesting details and get children (and parents) thinking. You will discover where they came from, what they are used for and how they work.
The instrumentation is surveyable and you can see cables running. That's the beauty of those old propeller planes: the technology is easy to follow. At the museum, you get close to both the planes and the flying.
See them fly
Where did that name come from? The Flying Museum is so named because museum pieces still take to the air (and land safely again too). Especially in the fine months, you can regularly see this for yourself at events and airshows. The annual Classic Cars & Aeroplanes is a household name among enthusiasts.
How cool is it to see the planes up close at the museum and then come back again to see your favourite plane take to the skies? Roaring engines, waving flaps, propellers picking up speed, classics showing what they are capable of!
It went quickly
Nicely too, a visit to the Flying Museum reveals how quickly aviation developed. In less than 100 years, the world went from Wright brothers to turbojet.
Upon entering, the Wright brothers' structure hangs above you. Or at least a replica of the aircraft they made the first flight with in 1903. A few steps further on, you find yourself facing cross-sections of jet engines. In less than a hundred years, we went from one thing to another.
The name Seppe?
The Flying Museum is located along the runway of Breda International Airport. Previously, this airport carried the name Seppe (and many Halderbergers keep it at that). That historic name fits into a long tradition of travelling to and staying in Halderberge.
Jacobus Sep ran an inn in Bosschenhoofd in the 19th century. In 1854 and 1855, workers working on the Roosendaal-Breda railway line stayed there. Eat, drink and sleep: the inn was their home and they liked it. They slept, in their words, 'at Seppe'.
The Belgian engineer entrusted with building the small station at Bosschenhoofd enjoyed the stay at Seppe so much that he named the station after it. When Adrie van Campenhout opened an airport in 1949, a 600-metre grass runway for gliders, he drew on this history.
Seppe, that's how everyone in the region knows the airport. The name is a tribute to the hospitality of Jacobus Sep and his wife Ida Ossenblok. With the same warmth, the volunteers of the Flying Museum invite you to visit their hangar.
Time for an outing!
The Flying Museum is open Wednesday to Sunday between 1pm and 5pm during the holiday season. Airshows and events are announced on the website vliegendmuseumseppe.co.uk.
