Yorkshire Air Museum
The Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial is an aviation museum in Elvington, York, England, on the site of the former RAF Elvington airfield, a Second World War RAF Bomber Command station.Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: aviation museum in the United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Yorkshire Air Museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial”
- Address: York, YO41 4AU
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Control Tower, Yorkshire Air Museum and RAF Elvington.
Control Tower, Yorkshire Air Museum
Building
Photo: Ihaveseenthings, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Control Tower, Yorkshire Air Museum is a building.
RAF Elvington
Aerodrome
Photo: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Air Force Elvington or more simply RAF Elvington is a former Royal Air Force satellite station which operated from the beginning of the Second World War until 1992 located at Elvington, Yorkshire, England.
York Maze
Park
Photo: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.
York Maze is a maze constructed from maize located off the B1228 road near Elvington in England. York Maze is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Yorkshire Air Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elvington and Wheldrake.
Elvington
Village
Photo: Acombmate2114, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Elvington is a village and civil parish in the City of York, lying approximately 7 miles south-east of York, England, on the B1228 York-Howden road. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,212, it increased to 1,239 at the 2011 Census.
Wheldrake
Village
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wheldrake is a village and civil parish located 7 miles south-east of York in the unitary authority of the City of York, which is in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Wheldrake is situated 2 miles south of Yorkshire Air Museum.
Kexby
Hamlet
Photo: Keith Laverack, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kexby is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of the City of York in North Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Derwent and on the A1079 road about 5 miles east of York not far from the East Riding of Yorkshire border. Kexby is situated 2 miles northeast of Yorkshire Air Museum.
Yorkshire Air Museum
- Categories: aviation museum and tourism
- Location: Elvington, York, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.92545° or 53° 55′ 32″ northLongitude
-0.96702° or 0° 58′ 1″ westOpen location code
9C5XW2GM+55OpenStreetMap ID
way 65578323OpenStreetMap feature
attraction=aircraftOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q8055672
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Japanese—“Yorkshire Air Museum” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Yorkshire Air Museum”
- Japanese: “ヨークシャー航空博物館・同盟空軍記念館”
- Japanese: “ヨークシャー航空博物館”
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