THOUSANDS of visitors were at Elvington over the weekend to see the Yorkshire Air Museum’s Battlegroup North event.

The event attracted re-enactors from all over the UK as well as the US, Russia, Poland and Germany.

The event is the biggest of its kind in the North of England and includes war games, reenactments and scenario setting from different eras, although mainly the Second World War.

Wartime jeeps, trucks, artillery, armoured vehicles and full size tanks were among the 250 historic vehicles on display. One of the highlights of the day was a flypast by a Hawker Hurricane aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.

Museum director Ian Reed said the turnout both days had been “huge”.