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Yahoo
17-07-2025
- General
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Classic aircraft to take to skies for Yorkshire Air Museum anniversary
Three classic aircraft are set to take flight as part of a special anniversary event. The Yorkshire Air Museum will mark its 40th anniversary with a day of celebration on Monday, August 11. The Yorkshire Air Museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial was incorporated as a charitable trust in 1985 and held its first open day on August 11 of that year. The museum is located on a site formerly occupied by RAF Elvington. The derelict and overgrown site was cleaned up by volunteers during months of hard work. Volunteers cleared the museum site - which was formerly occupied by RAF Elvington - in preparation for the museum's opening in 1985 (Image: Supplied) The highlight of the day will be a flying display featuring three classic aircraft: the Blackburn B2 biplane, the Miles Messenger, and the Bucker Jungmann. Each aircraft will perform a display lasting approximately seven minutes. The Blackburn B2 took part in a display as part of the museum's first event in 1985, when it was flown by the late trustee Robert Sage - who had previously piloted a Halifax bomber from RAF Elvington in 1943. The museum in 1986 as it looked from the air (Image: Supplied) The anniversary event will also feature 1980s-era vintage cars and a new exhibition telling the story of the museum. Yorkshire Air Museum communications manager Jerry Ibbotson said: "After very humble beginnings, literally being built from the ruins of an old airbase, Yorkshire Air Museum has grown over the last four decades. "This is a way to celebrate that past, just as we are looking forward to the museum's future. "We hope people will join us on August 11 to enjoy the flying display, as well as the new exhibition on our own history. The museum as it looked from the air in May 2025 (Image: Supplied) "It's also a chance to see what we're up to in 2025, with recent acquisitions such as the Tucano trainer, as well as the freshly repainted Victor." Standard admission applies, but as a special gesture, anyone born in 1985 will be admitted for just £1, which was the original entry price.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
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York museum which was Second World War base plans VE Day celebrations
A major York attraction has revealed plans for the 80th anniversary of a defining moment in the nation's history. The Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington will hold celebrations to mark VE Day's anniversary on the weekend of May 10 and May 11. Visitors to the Halifax Way site are encouraged to sport their best 1940s look and pose for photographs next to the venue's reconstructed Halifax bomber and Dakota paratrooper aircraft. Visitors can pose next to the museum's reconstructed Halifax bomber (Image: Yorkshire Air Museum) During the Second World War RAF Elvington was home to Halifax bombers that flew on operations to Europe from 1943 until the end of the conflict. Wartime re-enactors, vehicles, and displays will feature in the event called We'll Meet Again after the 1939 song by English singer Vera Lynn. The on-site street party will also seek to emulate those that took place in May 1945 to celebrate the end of the war in Europe. RAF Elvington was a base during the Second World War (Image: Yorkshire Air Museum) Jerry Ibbotson, communications manager at the Yorkshire Air Museum, said: 'We'll Meet Again is always a hugely popular event and we think the street party will be a real hit. 'This year, we've got tables laid out for a street party, and anybody who wants to join in, whether a picnic with them or they buy from our cafe, can sit down and join us. 'There will be bunting and tables will all be dressed with tablecloths – all of that which you would have had at the street parties 80 years ago.' City of York Council invited streets, communities, neighbours and families to apply for a free temporary street closure for their events and street parties from May 3 up to and including May 8. Street parties will be held in towns and cities across the UK to mark VE Day's 80th anniversary next month – including community tea parties, 1940s dress-up events, and gatherings aboard Second World War warships. Victory in Europe Day, known as VE Day, is celebrated on May 8 each year to mark the day the Allies formally accepted Germany's surrender in 1945.
Yahoo
21-04-2025
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Popular attraction to celebrate and remember 80th anniversary of VE Day
The 80th anniversary of VE Day, the end of the Second World War in Europe, is being both remembered and celebrated at a museum that was a wartime RAF base. The Yorkshire Air Museum is on the site of RAF Elvington, near York, which was home to Halifax bombers that flew on operations in Europe from 1943 until the end of the conflict. The museum is holding a memorial service in its chapel on May 8, the date of VE Day, and visitors are invited to pay their respects. On the weekend of May 10 and 11, the venue is holding 'We'll Meet Again,' its annual wartime weekend, but with a VE Day twist. As well as 1940s reenactors, vehicles, displays and demonstrations, there will be a street party in the style of those held in 1945 to celebrate the end of the war in Europe. Tables will be arranged in the main square of the museum and decorated in a 1940s style. Visitors are welcome to bring their own picnic and join in the celebrations, or buy sandwiches from the onsite café. Read more: 6 now closed pubs we miss in County Durham and Darlington this Easter Nature enthusiasts treated to sighting of 'rare' bird across North East skies North East beach location branded 'perfect for seaside retreat' this Easter Yorkshire Air Museum Communications Manager Jerry Ibbotson said: "Unlike the anniversary of D-Day last year, there's much more of a celebration for VE Day, marking the end of six years of struggle. "We're holding the service in the chapel, with our own chaplain, the Reverend Taff Morgan, as a moment of remembrance and reflection, but the celebrations start at the weekend. "We'll Meet Again is always a hugely popular event, and we think the street party will be a real hit."
BBC News
02-03-2025
- General
- BBC News
Elvington service to remember WW2 aircraft tragedy 80 years on
A service is being held to remember the last German aircraft to be brought down over British soil during World War 4 March 1945, a German aircraft crashed at Elvington near York killing all four of the crew and three civilians on the Air Museum marketing and communications manager Jerry Ibbotson said the attack had been "a last throw of the dice" by the German said: "These were the dying weeks of the Second World War. They were very tragic events and we are gathering people in one place 80 years on to remember something that was tragic and ultimately pointless because the war ended two months later." A service of remembrance and reflection will be held at Yorkshire Air Museum on Sunday at 13:00 aircraft was part of Operation Gisela, which saw 117 fighter planes sent to intercept allied bombers returning to base after striking targets in Germany.A number of bombers were brought down, including three from RAF Elvington (operated by French aircrew).The memorial service will be attended by relatives of the RAF soldiers killed during the Oliver, the nephew of Flt Lt Jack Laffoley of No.10 Squadron, RAF Melbourne, who was shot down and killed, will attend the ceremony from Canada with his daughter Tanya and her was on his last, 33rd mission, aged to Yorkshire Air Museum, the German aircraft – a Junkers JU88 Night Fighter – had been attacking a nearby RAF bomber base, now home to the museum, when it struck a farmhouse, killing the Junkers crew and three people in the Richard Moll, his wife, Helen and daughter in law, Violet, died in hospital from their husband Fred Moll saved the life of their three-year old son, Edgar, fighting his way to the outside. The Yorkshire Air Museum, which stands on the site of RAF Elvington, is marking the 80th anniversary of Operation Gisela with a new display and an animation telling the story of the attack on the display includes the remains of a JU88 propeller, recovered from the North Sea near Filey in to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
