Yorkshire Air Museum

People taking a tour around the proposed site of Langwith Village, at Elvington Airfield on land west of Elvington Lane, in York. Picture is from Langwith Development Partnership

Garden village with 3,339 homes could be built at former York airfield
A new garden village with almost 3,400 homes could be built at a former airfield in York, with people urged to have their say.

The moving event paid tribute to men and women who served Britain and the Commonwealth and Allied nations during times of conflict. Picture: James Hardisty. Date: 6th September 2026.

Elvington Allied Air Forces Memorial Day: Best pictures

Last year's memorial event at Yorkshire Air Museum. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight: RAF aircraft to fly over Yorkshire museum

Cold War Wheels. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Cars and motorbikes from Cold War to be displayed at Yorkshire museum

The Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington. (Pic credit: James Hardisty)

National Cold War Heritage Week: Yorkshire Air Museum to host heritage event

Halifax bomber. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire Air Museum: Hull strongman to attempt to pull WWII Halifax bomber

Halifax new fuselage section being transported

Halifax bomber: How volunteers rebuilt 'the plane they couldn't kill'

Oliver Dean in a Royal Air Force Blackburn Buccaneer during the open cockpit event at the Yorkshire Air Museum, near York.

Yorkshire Air Museum: Best pictures as visitors get into cockpits of aircraft

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

Yorkshire Air Museum to host event that will honour members of air forces

Military vehicles displayed. (Pic credit: The Military Vehicle Trust)

Military Vehicle Rally 2025: Yorkshire museum to host show this weekend

The museum has repainted its Victor K2 tanker plane in camouflage colours. Photo: Yorkshire Air Museum

Huge Victor tanker plane repainted at Yorkshire Air Museum

Volunteers clearing the site in 1985. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

History of Yorkshire Air Museum ahead of 40th anniversary

There will be a display by a Blackburn B2 biplane. Photo courtesy of the Yorkshire Air Museum.

Yorkshire Air Museum to mark 40th anniversary with day of celebrations

One of Yorkshire Air Museum's biggest aircraft as it undergoes a repaint. (Pic credit: Simon Hulme)

WATCH: Incredible footage shows Yorkshire Air Museum aircraft being repainted

A classic vehicle at the Cold War Wheels event. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Cold War Wheels 2025: Yorkshire museum to host classic car and bike show

Cold War Wheels 2025 takes place at the air museum on Sunday, June 15.

Cold War Wheels event returns to Yorkshire Air Museum this month

Re-enactors Reece Badger Graham Buckle dress as pilots at the Yorkshire Air Museum which displayed three Blackburn Buccaneers in the colours of the Royal Navy, operation Desert Storm and RAF Germany for the attractions Buccaneer Day, marking 30 years jet retired from RAF service

Yorkshire Air Museum marks 40 years with exhibition and flypast

Ruby Fox, 13, in the cockpit of a Meteor at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington near York as the venue hosts their annual open cockpit event. Photograph by Tony Johnson.

Best pictures of Yorkshire Air Museum's Open Cockpit day

German crew burial in Fulford

Night of the Intruders: Remembering the deadly attacks on RAF bases in 1945

Gary Hancock, Aviation Conservation Manager for Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, York, preparing for the massive task which is expected to take at least two years to rebuild a giant RAF submarine-hunting aircraft. Picture: James Hardisty. Date: 9th January 2025.

Giant RAF submarine-hunting aircraft finds new home in Yorkshire

The plane lost its home when the airport closed, and its future was uncertain until a deal was struck to move it to the Yorkshire Air Museum Pic: Keiran Wilkinson

Final sections of historic aircraft delivered to air museum
The final sections of a historic aircraft nicknamed The Growler have been delivered to an air museum near York where it will be restored to its former glory.
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A complete Shackleton aircraft. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire Air Museum: Pieces arrive for submarine hunting aircraft

The Hercules engine. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire Air Museum fired up British bomber engine for first time since 1945

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
The Nimrod jet fired up its engines at Yorkshire Air Museum for Thunder Day this weekend - here are the best photos from events.
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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

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

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

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