Yorkshire Air Museum

Dakota Running 01. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Thunder Day: Yorkshire museum to host event showcasing WW2 aircraft

Allied Air Forces Memorial. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire Air Museum: World War II allied air crews will be honoured at museum

Golden Era Run last year. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire Air Museum: Over 50 vintage motorcycles to be showcased at event

The remodelled Hurricane. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire museum unveils WWII aircraft replica to honour pilot who defended York

Gary (left) and Derek (right) with Jaguar. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire former RAF pilot reunites with Jaguar aircraft he flew during Cold War

Dakota aircraft at the museum. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire Air Museum hosts events to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day landings

Gordon at the Yorkshire Air Museum

Veteran and former aircraft worker reunited with Blackburn Buccaneer after over ...

Visitors in an aircraft on Open Cockpit Day. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire museum to host event where people can climb into jets and helicopters

Crowds watched as the Nimrod fired up its jet engines.

Thunder Day 2024: Amazing photos show large crowds watch Nimrod fire up engines

Three Buccaneers at the museum. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Buccaneer Day 2024 at Yorkshire museum to mark 30 years since jet’s retirement

Dakota paratrooper. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Thunder Day 2024: Yorkshire event to allow visitors to see aircraft come to life

Jerry Ibbotson standing in front of the Handley Page Victor K2 Bomber/ Refueling Tanker XL231 aircraft. (Pic credit: James Hardisty)

How Yorkshire Air Museum has risen by 12,000 visitors and was saved from closure

Imogen Clawson as Jenny Alderson and Rachel Shenton as Helen Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small series 4, the Christmas episode. Picture: Playground/Channel 5

All Creatures Christmas Special: A tale of separation, community and future hope

Yorkshire Air Museum: Former RAF nuclear bomber returns 30 years since arrival

To commemorate 30 years since its arrival at Yorkshire Air Museum, a former RAF nuclear bomber turned airborne refuelling station will return to the Elvington-based aviation museum.

Liana Jacob

The Douglas DC3 Dakota (pictured) was an American-built transport aircraft, used during WW2 and for years after. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire Air Museum: Watch aircraft up close at event held by Yorkshire museum

We'll Meet Again 1940s Weekend, held at Yorkshire Air Museum, York. Pictured Yvonne Somrani, and Richi Redtial both dressed as ATA Officers infront of the Fairchild Argus aircraft. Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty.

The best pictures from the 1940s festival held in Yorkshire this weekend

The Grade 2 Listed World War Two Control Tower at Yorkshire Air Museum

Yorkshire Air Museum launches fundraiser for one of last WW2 control towers

Shackleton WR963 – nicknamed “Ermintrude” - has been preserved by the Shackleton Aviation Group. Photo submitted

Yorkshire Air Museum secures the future of Avro Shackleton Cold War aircraft – o...

The Blackburn Beverley aircraft at Paull Fort, Hull....29th September 2020 Picture: Simon Hulme

Blackburn Beverley: Iconic aircraft in danger of being scrapped

Jerry Ibbotson, in front of the Handley-Page Victor K2 airborne tanker ex-V-bomber preserved at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, near York Credit: Simon Hulme

Falklands War 40th anniversary: Vulcan bombing mission on island runway recalled

Yorkshire Air Museum volunteers re-arrange the main hangar and outdoor display aircraft exhibits. The theme for the Summer will be: Aviation,Yorkshire's Greatest Invention, to celebrate the county's unique aviation heritage, which continues to this day. Picture : Jonathan Gawthorpe

Yorkshire Air Museum looks to get off to a flier after months in lockdown

August 1923: Groundstaff running to get out of the way of an Allen glider. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Remembering the Scarborough engineer who invented the glider

Bob Emmett, a volunteer and trustee at the Yorkshire Air Museum (left) helps the Halifax into position as Alex Roberts, a reenactor dressed in RAF uniform, gathers up the flags from VE Day as they get ready for reopening. Picture: Gary Longbottom.

Yorkshire Air Museum puts Second World War aircraft centre stage for reopening

Josephine Baker performs for troops at the British Leave Club at the Hotel Moderne in Paris, May 1940. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Scandalous star who brought wartime glamour to York’s ‘French quarter’

Halifax Bomber 80th Anniversary, at the Yorksihire Air Museum, Flt Lt George Dunn aged 97 pictured with Flt Lt Daniel Whatmough .24th October 2019.Picture by Simon Hulme.

Second World War veteran reunited with Halifax bomber for 80th anniversary of ma...

Like many of his generation who became Second World War veterans, Flight Lieutenant George Dunn is typically modest.

John Blow

York's newest care home, Handley House, officially opened yesterday on the site of a former RAF station.

New care home on former RAF site

From left: Andy Stamp WW2 , Charles Hancock 1950/60's, Sandrine Bauchet, present day, Yoan Martin 1980s and Gary Hancock, WW1, with in the background a T7 Hawker Hunter trainer 1950's, Handley page Victor Bomber 1960's and a prototype Tornador GR4.

Hats off to a century of air combat as RAF flypast marks anniversary

Artist Leonard Brown, in front of the lif- size replica of Amy Johnson's Gypsy Moth, which is hanging from the roof of Paragon Station, in Hull.

Delight as campaign to keep Amy Johnson replica in Hull takes off

The life size replica of Amy Johnson's Gipsy Moth, which is hanging from the roof of Paragon Station, in Hull.

Artist's fight to prevent Amy Johnson plane leaving city

Huge tailbacks on A64 as Yorkshire families head to the coast

Noel Whittall from Leeds is pictured with his 1918 First World War Truimph Dispatch Rider Bike Model H. PIC: Simon Hulme

Vintage motorcycles return in convoy to the open road in Yorkshire

Yorkshire-built jet is back in style for Thunder Day flight

The Yorkshire Air Museum came alive this weekend as specially invited re-enactors brought the site to life, recreating the atmosphere of an operational wartime airbase. Picture Bruce Rollinson

Against All Odds: Yorkshire WW2 airbase roars back to life

Halifax NA 121 H7- D and crew: L-R Pilot Adjutant. R. Guise (killed in action); Commander Lt. Maurice Dabadie (killed in action); Sous Lt. Alfred Pothuau (killed in action); Sgt. A. Alavoine (PoW); Sgt. Henro Lelong (killed in action); Sgt. Jacques Vautard (PoW); Sgt. Marcel Vega (killed in action).

Why they remember a different fifth of November in a part of Yorkshire that is f...

Gary Hancock, museum technician, infront of the refurbished bi-plane, which was transported to the International Somme Commemoration event at Thiepval, in Northern France. Picture James Hardisty

First World War bi-plane returns from Somme commemorations for York exhibition

Ian Reed the Director of the Yorkshire Air Museum, pictured with Avro 504 Biplane. Picture by Simon Hulme

First World War plane ready for Battle of the Somme commemorations

Prize exhibit: Brian Watmough next to an Eastchurch Kitten First World War bi-plane, designed as a Zeppelin killer. Picture: James hardisty

Memories of years when wartime airships brought terror from sky

The 12 recipients of the Award of Chevalier (Knight) de la Légion dHonneur at the Yorkshire Air Museum, York. Pictures: James Hardisty.

Yorkshire veterans awarded the Légion d'Honneur for Normandy roles

Joseph Murphy with Jane Thompson, his god-daughter, and other family members

Surprise! 96-year-old Leeds D-Day veteran Joseph Murphy given France’s highest b...

Normandy Veteran Joseph Murphy, from Burley, Leeds, is presented with the Légion dHonneur by his family at Yorkshire Air Museum, York with Jane Thompson, his god-daughter

Surprise honour for wartime hero from country he helped to liberate

Yorkshire Air Museum - 'Night Shoot' Photography Event Avro Halifax Friday the 13th

Aviation enthusiasts flock for tickets to night shoot

GENEROSITY RECREATED: Nicola Taylor of York Teaching Hospital Charity, Ian Reed, director of the Yorkshire Air Museum, Alison Wragg of Martin House Hospice, Sheriff of York John Kenny, and the Lord Mayor of York Coun Ian Gillies. Picture: James Hardisty

Yorkshire Air Museum recreate Christmas generosity of French airmen 70 years on

Sgt Ernest Alexander Kelly, a member of the crew of a Vickers Wellington MK III lost over France.

Yorkshire airman remembered

Video: Yorkshire flyers recreate WW1 fighter

Jack Bramwell (left) with son Alex Bramwell, 16, prepare for a canopy parachute jump later this year in aid of St Leonards Hospice in York

Father and son parachutists poised to take to skies to raise fund for hospice

Katleen Verhoeven is on a work placement at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington near York

Intern proves herself to be a high flyer as she helps restore historic aircraft

RAF turns back the clock to save plane heritage for future

Volunteer Brain Watmough working on the engine of the reproduction 1917 Eastchurch Port Victoria Kitten

‘Zeppelin zapper’ returns to life

Flt Lt Ollie Suckling, GR4 Captain based at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, who started as a volunteer at the museum aged 15

Anniversary of V-bomber’s arrival marked at air museum

York aircraft factory poised for take-off as draw for visitors

The Blackburn Buccaneer XV168, re-dedicated to the former Blackburn Aircraft workers who died as part of development and testing of the aircraft.

Service to remember crew who gave lives to aircraft

Warrant Officer Paddy Hope, 97, an ex Mosquito navigator takes a close look at the Mosquito aircaft

Video: Yorkshire war veterans in poignant visit to air museum

Memorial to Yorkshire’s Spitfires

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