South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum

The South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum (SYAM) is a Volunteer led museum located at Lakeside in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It occupies the former site of the Royal Air Force Station, RAF Doncaster. The museum occupies the last remaining original buildings from RAF Doncaster in the shape of a Bellman hangar, two wooden Air Ministry 'Billet Huts' (Buildings 19 and 21) and various smaller structures. The museum has also erected an more modern ex Air Training Corps Cadet Hut alongside Building 21 to house its World War Two Collection.

South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum
LocationDoncaster, South Yorkshire
TypeAviation museum
Websitehttp://www.southyorkshireaircraftmuseum.org.uk/

The museum is also home to the Yorkshire Helicopter Preservation Group (YHPG)[1] which relocated from the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York in July 2002. The YHPG display their collection of helicopters among the other SYAM exhibits and have an on-site workshop for continued restoration of their aircraft.

Aircraft on display

The South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum has a wide range of aircraft on display from the earliest days of aviation, through to modern military fast jets. There is also a large collection of civil aircraft and gliders. The museum is also home to the largest permanent display[2] remembering and honouring the men and women who fought during the Falklands War, with a collection of aircraft on display having been flown during that conflict, or representative of their type. The museum also preserves a large collection of aircraft with links to the local area, many having flown from local airfields such as RAF Finningley, Doncaster Sheffield Airport and Doncaster Airfield (the former RAF Doncaster).

Many of the exhibits have been painstakingly restored by volunteers, notably the Avro Vulcan B.2 XL388 cockpit section, Bristol Sycamore HR.14 XE317, Gloster Meteor T.7 WA667 and Cessna 150 G-AVAA.

These aircraft listed below are significant to the aviation history of the Doncaster Area having flown from local airfields.

  • De Havilland Dove G-ARUM/G-DDCD. Used by the National Coal Board as an Executive Transport aircraft and regularly flown into Doncaster Airfield.
  • Handley Page Jetstream XX495. Flown from RAF Finningley. The aircraft was donated to the museum by Bedford College in 2018.
  • Hawker Siddeley HS.125 Dominie T.1 XS735. Flown from RAF Finningley.
  • Piper PA-23 Apache G-APMY. United Steel Transport aircraft, Regularly flown into Scunthorpe Steelworks.
  • Vickers Varsity WJ903 (cockpit section). Flown from RAF Finningley.
  • Taylorcraft Auster AOP.1 LB314. Flown from RAF Firbeck (The museum's original site) during the Second World War. This aircraft was transported by museum volunteers from Denmark in 2018 and is now on display in Building 21, where it retains its Danish civil registration marks OY-DSZ.
  • Grumman American AA-1B G-BCLW. Flown from RAF Finningley by one of the flying schools, G-BCLW was written off in 2013 after the propeller contacted the nose wheel spat during a heavy landing and its insurers assessed the damage as uneconomical to repair. G-BCLW was first based at Doncaster Airfield, the museum's current site.

Falklands Collection

The aircraft listed below have links to the Falklands War and are on display at the South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum.

See also

References
  1. "YHPG Yorkshire Helicopter Preservation Group | Restore and Preserve". Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  2. "11 Weeks in 1982". South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum. 17 March 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  3. "British Aircraft lost - Falklands War 1982". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  4. Ranter, Harro. "Accident Westland Gazelle AH1 XX411, 21 May 1982". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  5. Clarke, Peter. "Aerospatiale SA.341B Gazelle AH1, XX411 / WA1359, Aeroventure-South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum". abpic.co.uk. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  6. Falklands: The Air War. Weidenfeld Military. 1986. ISBN 0853688427.
  • Ellis, Ken (2010). Wrecks & Relics 22nd Edition. Crécy Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85979-150-2.
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