RAF Doncaster (South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum Now the location of Doncaster Racecourse) | Education Video by World of Military

<p>Dew to the cost of going to this Museum we will be asking for £15 to cover the costs</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Royal Air Force Doncaster</strong> or more simply <strong>RAF Doncaster</strong>, also referred to as Doncaster Aerodrome, is a former Royal Air Force station near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.</p><p><br></p><p>n 1909, Doncaster and specifically Doncaster Racecourse was chosen as the venue for an airshow, after the world's first international air display in Rheims in 1908.[2] Around a dozen aviators were present, the most famous being Léon Delagrange, and Roger Sommer. Samuel Cody in an attempt to win a prize offered by <em>The Daily Mail</em> for the first British pilot in a British aeroplane to fly a circular mile signed British naturalisation papers in front of the crowd with the band playing both the Star Spangled Banner and the National Anthem. Unfortunately, he crashed his airplane on the first day of the meeting and made no significant flights.[3]Artist Dudley Hardy drew caricatures of participating flyers, Captain Sir Walter Windham, Léon Delagrange, Hubert Le Blon, Louis Schreck, Roger Sommer and Samuel Cody, for the show's souvenir programme, together wi