Location | Doncaster, South Yorkshire |
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Coordinates | 53°30′51″N1°06′33″W / 53.5142°N 1.1093°W |
Type | Aviation museum |
Website | www |
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 a more modern ex Air Training Corps Cadet Hut alongside Building 21 to house its World War Two Collection.
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.
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.
The aircraft listed below have links to the Falklands War and are on display at the South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum.