Collection: Yorkshire Air Museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Transport Collection

  These collections are the core of the museum comprising 41 aircraft and 17 vehicles covering the pre and post World War Two periods. 9 Pre WW II aircraft viz: – Avro, 504K, ‘H1968’ Blackburn Mercury Monoplane, 1911 Cayley Glider, De Havilland Gipsy Moth, D.H.60G ‘G-AAAH’ Mignet Flying Flea, HM.14 ‘G-AFFI’ Port Victoria Eastchurch Kitten, P.V.8 ‘N540’ Royal Aircraft Factory , SE.5a ‘F943’ Royal Aircraft Factory , BE.2c ‘6232’ Wright Flyer, 1903. 9 WW II aircraft viz: – De Havilland Mosquito, D.H.98 NF.II HJ711 Douglas Dakota IV, C-47B-25-DK KN353 G-AMYJ Fairchild Argus, II FK338 Handley Page Halifax, II(III) ‘LV907’ Hawker Hurricane, I ‘P3873’ Messerschmitt , Bf 109G-6 Slingsby Cadet, TX.1 RA854 Supermarine Spitfire, I ‘R6690’ Waco Hadrian, CG-4A ‘237123’. 23 post WW II aircraft viz: – Air Command Sports Elite, Gyroplane G-TFRB Avro Anson, T.21 VV901 Beagle (Auster) Terrier, 2 ‘TJ704’ G-ASCD Blackburn Buccaneer, S.2B XX901 Dassault Mirage, IIIE 538 De Havilland Vampire, D.H.100 T11 XH278 English Electric Canberra, T.4 WH846 English Electric Lightning, F.6 XS903 Europa Europa Prototype, 1 G-YURO Gloster Javelin, F(AW).9 XH767 Gloster Meteor, F.8 ‘WK864’ WL168 Gloster (A-W) Meteor, NF.14 WS788 Handley Page Herald, 201 G-AVPN andley Page Victor, K.2 XL231 Hawker Harrier, G.R.3 XV748 Hawker Hunter, T.7 ‘XL571’ XL572 Hawker Hunter, FGA.78 N-268 Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer, S.2 XN974 Hunting-Percival Jet Provost, T.4 XP640 Lockheed / Canadair Silver Star, CT-133 21417 Mainair Demon, 175 Tri-Flyer 330 G-MJRA Noble/Hardman Snowbird, Mark IV G-MVIM Westland-Sikorsky Dragonfly, HR.5 WH991. 17 historic vehicles being restored to their original condition viz: – Vickers, Chieftain, Main Battle Tank, Ford? Popular, Saloon Car, Chevrolet? CMP, General Purpose Lorry, AEC Amazon? Coles Crane, Airfield Crane, Austin, NAAFI wagon, International, Armoured Half Track, David Brown, Aircraft tractor, David Brown, Aircraft tractor, Austin? ‘Champ’, General purpose vehicle, Morris? Commercial, Cargo lorry, Commer? ‘Bikini’, Fire pump unit, Lansing, Aircraft carrier type tug, Daimler? Ferret, Armoured scout car, Reynolds Boughton Chubb? Pathfinder, Airfield Foam Tender, Wolseley, Staff Car, Range Rover, Fire Engine, GMC Pump; Fire Engine

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  Transport

  Arms and Armour Collection

  The memorial is believed to be the only one of its type in the world and is dedicated to the memory of the 20,000 Air Gunners who lost their lives in World War II. The display at the Yorkshire Air Museum shows an array of weapons, turrets and air gunnery techniques used by these aircrew.

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  Arms and Armour

  Costume and Textile Collection

  The large Uniform Collection, only part of which is displayed, includes examples of practically every RAF, WAAF and WRAF uniform item ever issued, together with medals, rank and trade badges as well as the highly prized aircrew brevets. The Dress Uniform and other items belonging to Air Chief Marshal Sir Augustus ‘Gus’ Walker, wartime station commander of RAF Pocklington, are on display. The collection also includes uniforms and badges of Commonwealth, French Air Force and other airmen who fought alongside the RAF during World War II.

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  Costume and Textile

  Personalia Collection

  Sir Barnes Wallis was born in 1887 and first made his name with the design for the dirigible R-100 airship. In the 1930s, whilst working for Vickers at Weybridge, he pioneered the geodetic construction used in the Vickers Wellington bomber. His ‘bouncing’ bomb was used by No. 617 Squadron, ‘The Dambusters’, in the famous raids on the Eder, Mohne and Sorpe dams in May 1943. An example of one of these bombs is on display. After World War Two, Barnes Wallis designed the first swing-wing aircraft. His name is also closely associated with the design of high penetration and very large bombs, carried by Bomber Command aircraft, namely the Grand Slam and the Tallboy, which also on display at the Yorkshire Air Museum.

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  Personalia

  Archives Collection

  There is a comprehensive record of all the airfields used by the RAF in Britain compiled by Guy Jefferson and a record of all aircraft crash sites in Yorkshire.

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  Archives

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC