Yorkshire Air Museum
The Yorkshire Air Museum (YAM) is located on the former No 4 Group Bomber Command airfield at RAF Elvington.
Please click here for - RAF Elvington Airfield History
Over the years the airfields former wartime control tower and buildings became overgrown and derelict. In 1983 a dedicated band of volunteers began clearance work around the wartime control tower and adjacent buildings. Subsequently the museum held its first Open Day on 11 August 1985. In the summer of 1993 the museum bought the buildings and land outright and the museums future was assured.
Over the years the museum has amassed a huge variety of aircraft, equipment and memorabilia. For me one of the highlights is Handley Page Halifax, Friday the 13th which flew with No 158 Squadron. The aircraft is a replica made up of various Halifax parts and the wings from a Hastings. The aircraft resides in the Canadian Memorial Hangar. It was for this aircraft that I travelled up to YAM on 16 June 2012. I had never seen a Halifax and I am very pleased that I made the effort to visit the museum.
I was also very impressed with the Air Gunners Exhibition. This gave a superb insight into those brave fellows that manned the defensive gun turrets in those long dark cold hours of night bombing raids.
Please click here for - Air Gunners Exhibition Photographs
A day out to YAM will give the visitor a very rewarding experience. There is so much to see, read and if you are lucky, ground running and taxi's of aircraft such as the Victor and Nimrod. All in all I thoroughly recommend a trip to YAM it is a site that will not disappoint.
Please click here for - RAF Elvington Airfield History
Over the years the airfields former wartime control tower and buildings became overgrown and derelict. In 1983 a dedicated band of volunteers began clearance work around the wartime control tower and adjacent buildings. Subsequently the museum held its first Open Day on 11 August 1985. In the summer of 1993 the museum bought the buildings and land outright and the museums future was assured.
Over the years the museum has amassed a huge variety of aircraft, equipment and memorabilia. For me one of the highlights is Handley Page Halifax, Friday the 13th which flew with No 158 Squadron. The aircraft is a replica made up of various Halifax parts and the wings from a Hastings. The aircraft resides in the Canadian Memorial Hangar. It was for this aircraft that I travelled up to YAM on 16 June 2012. I had never seen a Halifax and I am very pleased that I made the effort to visit the museum.
I was also very impressed with the Air Gunners Exhibition. This gave a superb insight into those brave fellows that manned the defensive gun turrets in those long dark cold hours of night bombing raids.
Please click here for - Air Gunners Exhibition Photographs
A day out to YAM will give the visitor a very rewarding experience. There is so much to see, read and if you are lucky, ground running and taxi's of aircraft such as the Victor and Nimrod. All in all I thoroughly recommend a trip to YAM it is a site that will not disappoint.
Page Index - Aircraft Within This Gallery -
Gloster Javelin FAW.9 - XH767 - English Electric Lightning F.6 - XS903 - Handley Page Halifax II (III) - LV907 "Friday The 13th" - Beagle (Auster) Terrier 2 - TJ704 - Fairey Gannet AEW.3 - XL502 - Hawker Hurricane I - P3873
Hunting Percival Jet Provost T.4 - XP640 - Fairchild Argus II - FK338 - Gloster Meteor F.8 - WK864 - Slingsby T.7 - RA854 - Hawker Harrier GR.3 - XV748 - Hawker Hunter T.7 - XL572 - Dassault Mirage IIIE - 538 - Handley Page Victor K.2 - XL231 - BAe Nimrod MR.2 - XV250 - Armstrong Whitworth (Gloster) Meteor NF.14 - WS788
Gloster Javelin FAW.9 - XH767 - English Electric Lightning F.6 - XS903 - Handley Page Halifax II (III) - LV907 "Friday The 13th" - Beagle (Auster) Terrier 2 - TJ704 - Fairey Gannet AEW.3 - XL502 - Hawker Hurricane I - P3873
Hunting Percival Jet Provost T.4 - XP640 - Fairchild Argus II - FK338 - Gloster Meteor F.8 - WK864 - Slingsby T.7 - RA854 - Hawker Harrier GR.3 - XV748 - Hawker Hunter T.7 - XL572 - Dassault Mirage IIIE - 538 - Handley Page Victor K.2 - XL231 - BAe Nimrod MR.2 - XV250 - Armstrong Whitworth (Gloster) Meteor NF.14 - WS788