One event on May 11, 2024 at 10:00 am
One event on May 12, 2024 at 10:00 am
The Yorkshire Air Museum is hosting its annual 1940s event – ‘We’ll Meet Again’ – over the weekend of May 10/11/12th, coinciding with the launch of a major new theme for the forthcoming year.
The museum will be filled with over 100 reenactors, plus vintage vehicles and machinery, as well as talks and demonstrations relating to the allied war effort.
All of this takes place against the backdrop of the Museum’s original wartime buildings and, of course, our Halifax bomber and Dakota transport aircraft.
The weekend also sees the launch of ‘Elvington 44/45 – The Fight for Liberty’, a site-wide exhibition that spans one of the most momentous 12 months in modern history.
It covers the arrival of two French-crewed Bomber Command Squadrons – 346 and 347 – at RAF Elvington in 1944, as well as the part played by aircraft on D-Day (June 6th 1944).
Halifax bombers from RAF Elvington were used to strike German targets in Normandy on the eve of D-Day, while the aircraft type was also used for towing troop-and-vehicle-carrying gliders into the battle zone.
Dakotas are an icon of D-Day, dropping British and American paratroopers behind the beach landings. Our ‘Dak’ has been repainted with D-Day markings – ‘Invasion stripes’ – to mark the anniversary.
There will be displays on the part played by airborne troops, based around our reconstructed WACO glider, and on the role of the French bomber crew at Elvington, which became known as ‘la petite France’.
Adults £15
Children 4-17 years £6
Children under 4 free
Buy Make a Booking Tickets online – Yorkshire Air Museum (digitickets.co.uk)
