The Yorkshire Air Museum Blog brings you a diverse range of information and interesting subjects. As well as the latest news from around the museum, we also delve into the history of RAF Elvington and bring you stories from our past in the Remembrance and History section. If heritage and aviation engineering is your passion, you can learn more about the work of our engineering team.

Our podcast season will be starting again very soon and if you enjoy a nice read, then take a look at the What We Are Reading to gain an insight into the kind of books our team enjoy.

Museum News

Read the latest news from the Yorkshire Air Museum, our past events and what is happening around the Museum.

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Le Yorkshire Air Museum réaffirme le statut européen du Mémorial des Forces Aériennes Alliées.

Le Yorkshire Air Museum a pu réaffirmer cette semaine le statut européen du Mémorial des Forces Aériennes Alliées. Situé dans ...
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The Yorkshire Air Museum Re-Affirms Allied Air Forces Memorial European Status

The Yorkshire Air Museum was able to re-affirm the European status of The Allied Air Forces Memorial this week. Located ...
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Robert Pleming Remembered

The aviation heritage community was deeply saddened this week by the sudden passing of Professor Robert Pleming of Vulcan to ...
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Heritage Engineering

Our Heritage and Engineering team care for our diverse range of live aircraft, from WW1 biplanes through to cold war jets. Many of our aircraft are kept live and our visitors love seeing, hearing and enjoying the aroma of these wonderful aircraft. Gain a Behind the Scenes pass and read more about our restoration programmes here.

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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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Podcast

Tune in to the Museum’s podcast. Each series has a different theme and gives you an insight to life in years gone by, our work and our desire to Honour, Educate, Inspire. The current podcast series was created by the great team at Time and Again Theatre Company

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Greyhounds Episode 11

As we near the anniversary of VE Day, we're revealing the latest podcast episode, brought to you by the amazing ...
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Greyhounds Episode 10

We're up to episode 10 of Greyhounds, brought to you by the great team at Time and Again Theatre Company ...
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Greyhounds Episode 9 – Marmalade

We hope you're enjoying the great story being unfolded by the team at Time and Again Theatre Company. Here's the ...
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What We’re Reading

An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth – Review

Name of book - An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth Author and publisher - Chris Hadfield - ISS Commander ...
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if you enjoy reading, whether it’s aviation, history or other subject, here’s a collection of reviews from the team of what we’ve been reading recently.