Yorkshire Air Museum
Halifax 'Friday the 13th' Night Shoot, Elvington
Friday 13th March, 2015
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The Yorkshire Air Museum (YAM) was the venue for another Neil Cave night photo-shoot principally of the Halifax painted as 'Friday the 13th'. Lighting and re-enactors composed the scenes for the 120+ strong group of photographers. YAM also made available their Devon, Mosquito and DC-3 Dakotas which all were powered up during the four hour event.
The Halifax on display was reconstructed using part of a fuselage from Halifax II, HR792, which emergency landed on the Isle of Lewis in 1945. The wings are from a Hastings (TG536). It is named 'Friday the 13th' in honour of a Halifax (LV907), which completed 128 operations with 158 Squadron. |
| Handley Page Halifax III (HR792 painted as 'LV907' Friday the 13th). |
| RAF Elvington was utilised as a bomber base during World War Two, three hardened runways were constructed in 1942. 77 Squadron moved there with Whitley's which were soon replaced by the Halifax, which were used in raids on German industry. In 1944 two French Squadrons, 346 (Guyenne) and 347 (Tunisie) continued bombing from Elvington till 1945. The US Strategic Air Command utilised the airfield from 1952 and lengthened the runway to 1.92 miles, making it the longest in northern England. Six years later the airfield was vacated by US forces without any aircraft actually operating from the base. In the 1960s the airfield was used for test flying the Buccaneer by Blackburn Aircraft Company based at Brough and later by RAF flying training schools which used the airfield for circuits and landings. In 1992 RAF Elvington was closed. |
| Left to right: Handley Page Halifax III (HR792 painted as 'LV907'). |
| de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito NF.11 (HJ711). |
| Left to right: de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito NF.II (HJ711). |
| de Havilland DH 104 Devon C.2 (VP967). |
| Left to right: Devon C.2 (VP967). |
| Douglas DC-3 Dakota IV (G-AMYJ). |
| Left to right: Douglas DC-3 Dakota IV (G-AMYJ formally KN353). |
| Left to right: Douglas DC-3 Dakota IV (G-AMYJ) with problems developing with the port engine it started to cry. |
| Gloster Javilin F(AW).9 (XH767). |
Left to right: Gloster Javilin F(AW).9 (XH767 and Lockheed Canadair CT-133 Silver Star (12417).
Buccaneer S.2B (XV168) was stored at Brough, East Yorkshire where it was built in the 1960s since its retirement in 1993 when the BAE Systems site was sold. It was moved to the Yorkshire Air Museum in August 1993. |
Left to right: de Havilland DH115 Vampire T.11 (XH278 '42').
Hunting Percival Jet Provost T.4. |
Left to right: Beagle Terrier 2 (G-ASCD) restored as a Auster AOP.6.
Fairchild Argus II (G-AJOZ). |
Left to right: Dassault Mirage III (538 '3-QH').
Hawker Hunter FGA.78 (QA10 also N-268) ex Qatar Emiri Air Force and Dutch Air Force. It was built under licence by Fokker-Aviolanda in 1958 and served with the Royal Netherlands Air Force before conversion to an FGA.78. It was one of a batch of ex Dutch and Belgian Hunters refurbished for Qatar.
Mignet HM.14 Flying Flea replica (BAPC.76 'G-AFFI'). |
