Surrey's Brooklands Museum is planning to reconfigure the museum's hangar as The Brooklands Aircraft Factory after securing a first-round pass for a £4.85m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).

The Brooklands Aircraft Factory & Race Track Revival Project aims to relocate, restore and reinterpret the Weybridge museum's grade II-listed Wellington Hangar.

The project includes plans to restore the hangar on a new site adjacent to its current one, allowing the finishing straight of the race track to be brought back into use for both motoring and aviation activities.

The hangar is to be presented as an aircraft factory; showcasing aircraft from the earliest pioneers to Concorde were designed, built and developed at Brooklands over an 80-year period.

The factory will be an interactive learning centre offering a training scheme in historic aircraft restoration, will aim to educate visitors on science, technology and engineering.

The project would see the development of an extension to house a collection of historic aircraft, and restore the section of original racetrack on which the hangar currently stands.

In an adjoining Flight Shed, the museum's active aircraft will be kept and will be used on the refurbished race track for visitor demonstrations, while in new workshops underneath that building Museum volunteers will learn and practice aircraft restoration skills.

Brooklands Museum Director Allan Winn said: "This HLF funding will help us restore a famous historic building and safeguard internationally important aircraft, to give our visitors the only place in the country where they can see how aircraft were and are designed and built.

"It will also allow us to bring a significant part of the world's first motor-racing circuit back to life - and to use all those elements to inspire youngsters, especially, to engage with the nationally-vital subjects of science, technology and engineering."