The Yorkshire Air Museum is in line for a major award for its work in honouring the French airmen based in Elvington during the Second World War.

Last October the museum, which houses the Allied Air Forces Memorial, staged the “French in York Week” involving more than 2,000 guests, diplomatic representatives, military detachments and 17 aircraft from France and the UK.

Now the event, which took two years to plan and which culminated in the inauguration of a memorial to the French airmen in York Minster, has been shortlisted in the Tourism Event of the Year category of the Yorkshire White Rose Awards of 2012.

Ian Reed, museum director, said: “We set the standard with this event and we look forward to building on this success.”