Propeller planes brought to life at air museum

A host of vintage aircraft were fired up by museum staff to advertise the first of its upcoming Thunder Day events, which takes place on Sunday.

Among the aircraft on display, was a full size representation of a World War 2 SE5a F943 bi-plane, which was with 92 Squadron, one of the first Squadrons of the Royal Air Force (RAF), that has been painstakingly restored to working condition over the past four years.

Also on show was a De Havilland Dove DH104, a short-haul airliner used by the RAF as a VIP transport, and which is known to have carried the Queen’s cousin, Lord Mountbatten.

A spokesman for the museum based at Elvington, near York, said: “It has been a long-held ambition of the museum director, Ian Reed, to have running propeller aircraft on site, to accompany our big jets. And now we have them.”

The Yorkshire Air Museum is the largest independent air museum in Britain and is also the location of The Allied Air Forces Memorial.