Yorkshire Air Museum

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

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...

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

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
A Comprehensive exhibition covering the land and air campaigns of the Battle of the Somme has returned to the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington, after it was seen by 10,000 people in Thiepval, France.

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

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
A TASKFORCE of 11 aircraft technicians from the Depth Support Squadron based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire have gone back to the future on a short placement at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York.

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

Golden era of bikes marked in a cloud of exhaust smoke

Flypast delights ‘evacuees’ at air museum’s wartime day

Fighter muscles in

Hawker Hurricane back in city to mark heroism of Free French pilot

Video: WW1 bi-plane thunders back into life at York aerodrome

Propeller planes brought to life at air museum

Propeller planes brought to life at air museum

Restoration of iconic wartime aircraft nearing completion

Memorial post for newsreader Jan Leeming

Army of enthusiasts marches on air museum for wheels and wings show

Air museum flies to top of list as visitors pick best days out out in region

Air museum flies to top of list as visitors pick best days out

Ian Robinson

Air museum backdrop as Guides celebrate 100 years

Air museum backdrop as Guides celebrate 100 years

Big military gathering marks 70th anniversary of Battle of Britain

Big military gathering marks 70thanniversary of Battle of Britain

Historic motor bikes from 'golden age' return to region's roads

Historic motor bikes from 'golden age' return to region's roads

C'est la guerre as French resistance tackled

Speaking role

Primary pupils fly high with a look into history at air museum event