Yorkshire Air Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Elvington, North Yorkshire
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 10am
🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16Educational🛝 Playground☔ Rainy-day friendlyBirthday parties🌲 Woodland
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
- Picnic area
- Birthday parties
- Dogs welcome
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Set on the wartime RAF Elvington airfield on the edge of York, the Yorkshire Air Museum is one of the largest independent aviation museums in the country. The site covers around twenty acres of parkland and includes restored Second World War buildings, a Grade II listed control tower and a large collection of aircraft, from early replica gliders and flyers to a Halifax bomber and later jets. Exhibition rooms cover Bomber Command, air gunners and the French bomber crews who were based here. Families can use the custom-built aviation-themed playground, sit in the café in the original NAAFI building, and watch films in the museum cinema. Picnic areas and a woodland walk make it easy to spend a relaxed afternoon, and the museum is dog friendly outside the playground. Standard tickets allow repeat visits within twelve months.
Summer and winter hours differ; see hoursNote. Special event days may not be covered by the free re-entry rule.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
Wet wipes
Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
Sun cream
Food pouches
Changing mat- Rain ponchoGoes over the rucksack too.
Ice packs- Toilet seat trainer
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