Public art: Statue of Frank Whittle

Location: Millennium Place, Coventry, under the Whittle Arches (near Hales Street).

Artist: Faith Winter.

A bronze statue of Sir Frank Whittle at Millennium Place in Coventry. Sculpted by Faith Winter, unveiled in 2007. He was born in Coventry, it shows him watching the first test flight of a jet-propelled Gloster-Whittle E28/49 on 15th May 1941 at RAF Cranwall. The inventor of the jet engine.

Statue of Frank Whittle at Millennium Place, Coventry (March 2015). Photography by Elliott Brown

Frank Whittle statue and Whittle Arches with Coventry Transport Museum at Millennium Place (February 2023). Photography by Jack Babington