The Yorkshire Air Museum Blog gives details of the current happenings around the Museum. For details of upcoming events, our Calendar shows the dates and full details of special days. If you’re planning to visit us, our Plan Your Visit page gives details of our opening times and how to get the best from your visit.
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Dakota Taxiing in the Sunshine
Saturday saw our Dakota taxi testing out on the wide expanses of Elvington airfield. A relatively low key event, the ...
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A Saturday For Piston Engines – 7th May
Here’s a short rundown on our anticipated schedule for this Saturday 7th May. It’s looking like we have fine weather ...
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19,240 – One for every soldier….
19,240. Study that figure for a moment. That’s the number of soldiers killed on the opening day of the Battle ...
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Behind The Scenes with Tour de Yorkshire
While the Museum may be better known for our Thunder Days and our diverse aircraft collection, we also have the ...
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On Any Sunday….
With more than forty aircraft to care for, restoration and maintenance is an ongoing task here at the Museum. A ...
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Victoria Wood 1953 – 2016
It was so desperately sad to hear of the passing of Victoria Wood yesterday. She was an amazingly talented writer ...
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Museum’s Avro 504 To Commemorate Centenary of The Somme in July
The Battle of the Somme was one of the most infamous and hard fought battles of the Great War, its ...
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Thunder Day Review
Sunday dawned a little damp and cloudy. There may be lots of daffodils by the roadsides this spring, but nobody ...
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Images From Early Yorkshire Aviation
The new Gasbags to Super Zeppelins exhibition has certainly stimulated interest in the World War One era of flight. We’ve ...
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Thunder Day is Coming This Weekend!
The chance to see a unique combination of military aircraft, all with their engines running, up close and very loud, ...
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Seven Reasons Why Families Enjoy The Air Museum
Families looking for things to do in Yorkshire visit the museum and have a wonderful time, often spending far more ...
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“Gas Bags to Super Zeppelins – Terror from the Sky” Open Now!
In the early years of the First World War, Britain came under air attack for the first time in history ...
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A Scroll Through The Ferry Pilots Notes
In recent times, the work of the Air Transport Auxiliary has been highlighted in several TV documentaries. Their valuable work ...
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Légion d’Honneur Ceremony For D Day Veterans
On the 70th anniversary of D-Day in June 2014, the French President announced that the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, ...
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Big Radial Overhauls
Big radial engines always seem to have a character of their own. Our Dakota engines, in the true tradition, always ...
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Allied Air Forces Memorial Gains European Recognition
We were pleased to announce this week that the European Union has granted Europe-wide Trade Mark ownership of the title, ...
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More Than Just An Air Museum
This short picture-show gives a brief and emotional glimpse into the wide range of activities we undertake each year, in ...
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Blackburn Buccaneer S2 – Low Level Strike Bomber, XN974
Our live Blackburn Buccaneer S2, XN974 is getting a well-deserved refurbishment.
Kindly donated by British Aerospace, the aircraft flew to the ...
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Remembering Desert Storm 25 Years On
In 1990, Iraq invaded neighbouring Kuwait. What became known as Operation Desert Storm, to retake the country using an international ...
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Happy New Year!!
The Museum would like to thank all our visitors, supporters and staff and take this opportunity to wish you all ...
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York Floods
We would like to inform potential visitors that the Museum is opening as normal despite localised flooding, and access roads are ...
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