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Friends of the Museum

Becoming a Friend gives us extra financial support to help us care for the aircraft in our collection and maintain the historic buildings on our site. We do not receive funding from government and rely on the public for our survival – either through admissions or donations. Friends subscriptions help us preserve the future of the museum.

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Being a Friend includes: yearly admission to the Museum, including most of the events in our annual calendar, plus invitations to exhibition / aircraft previews. You will also receive regular updates about the Museum via printed and digital newsletters and  bulletins.

Importantly, it provides the Museum with extra income to help us continue our work.

GIFT AID: If you are a UK tax payer you can claim Gift Aid on this, which lets us claim 25% extra back from the Government (and it doesn’t cost you any extra). Details on the payment page.

You can sign up online below, or download the membership form and post it to us.

Click here to download a membership form

ADULT

(18+)
£ 30 PER ANNUM
  • YEARLY ADMISSION TO THE MUSEUM
  • PRIVATE EVENT INVITATIONS
  • MEMBERS' NEWSLETTER - 'THE AVIATOR'
APPLY HERE

JUNIOR

(4-17 YEARS)
£ 15 PER ANNUM
  • YEARLY ADMISSION TO THE MUSEUM
  • PRIVATE EVENT INVITATIONS
  • MEMBERS' NEWSLETTER - 'THE AVIATOR'
APPLY HERE

JOINT

(2 ADULTS AT SAME ADDRESS)
£ 50 PER ANNUM
  • YEARLY ADMISSION TO THE MUSEUM
  • PRIVATE EVENT INVITATIONS
  • MEMBERS' NEWSLETTER - 'THE AVIATOR'
APPLY HERE

HOUSEHOLD

(2 ADULTS & 3 CHILDREN)
£ 70 PER ANNUM
  • YEARLY ADMISSION TO THE MUSEUM
  • PRIVATE EVENT INVITATIONS
  • MEMBERS' NEWSLETTER - 'THE AVIATOR'
APPLY HERE

YAM Membership GDPR Statement:
The personal and contact details provided on Membership application forms and subsequently on the Membership database will be used for the purposes of fulfilling your membership entitlements, in accordance with Data Protection Act 2018. We will contact you to provide Friendship Cards, for renewal reminders, up-dating you with news by e-mail or postal mail and issuing YAM Newsletter by post. The database is digitally secure stored, remote from site, secured by our CRM partners, accessed only by authorised YAM personnel. Member names and postal addresses are provided to our direct mail partners for mail of magazine. Personal details will not be shared with any other organisations for any reason.

Blackburn Mercury Monoplane 1911 (Replica) AH (BAPC) 130 YAM Jan.1995

The Blackburn Mercury Monoplane is regarded as the first truly successful aircraft made by Blackburn at their factory in Leeds. The Mercury I, powered by a 50 hp Isaacson radial engine, was displayed at the Olympia Aero Show in March 1911 and made its debut flying from the beach at Filey with the newly formed Blackburn Flying School. In May 1911, it flew from Filey to Scarborough and back in 19 minutes at an average speed of 50 mph, reaching an altitude of 1200 feet.
This aircraft crashed the next day when the engine seized and the propeller flew off! The Mercury I was followed by two Mercury II aircraft powered by 50 hp Gnome engines, and six Mercury III aircraft, with a number of different engines. Sadly, a Renault powered Mercury crashed at Filey in December 1911, killing an instructor and passenger.
The Museum’s replica was built for Yorkshire Television in 1979 for the Edwardian drama series ‘Flambards’, and was taxied with a car engine. It came to YAM on 10th January 1995 and after a long period in storage it was painstakingly restored to a superb display standard, and was unveiled in June 2000 by Professor Robert Blackburn, grandson of Robert Blackburn, the aviation pioneer.

AVRO 504K ‘H1968’ (Replica) AH (BAPC) 42 YAM Oct. 1994

The Avro 504 first flew in 1913. In the opening phases of the First World War, it served with front-line squadrons in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service for bombing and reconnaissance, but from 1915 onwards the aircraft entered the training role for which it is most celebrated.

Over 8,000 Avro 504s were built. In 1918, the Royal Air Force had about 3,000, of which 2,276 were trainers.

The Avro 504 was stationed at many Yorkshire airfields, including Tadcaster near the A1/A64 junction, where a period hangar can still be seen.

The Yorkshire Air Museum’s replica was built by apprentices at RAF Halton and appeared at the Royal Tournament in 1968 to commemorate what was then fifty years since the end of the First World War. The aircraft was refurbished in early 2015 to be transported to Thiepval, Northern France, for the Somme Centenary commemoration event, on request of the British Government. In May 2018, it was also displayed at the impressive Hotel Les Invalides in central Paris for a joint RAF / French Air Force event to mark the Centenary of the Royal Air Force and over 100 years of British and French Air Force collaboration.