ACA ARCHIVE TRUST Registered Charity No 1087354 |
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The Aircrew Association
Archive Trust
| Don't let vital aviation history
be lost by default by being put in the dustbin or refuse skip or sold to
private collectors. The Trust wants to record your memories as aircrew and
to make sure that key archive material is preserved and available for research
and display. |
Donations
of Memorabilia
Financial Donations and Legacies |
If you are a veteran member of the
aircrew fraternity - especially from World War Two - and would like to tell
your story, or if you have memorabilia that you'd like to be kept for posterity,
then contact the Aircrew Association Archive Trust now.
The Aircrew Association Archive Trust
became a Registered Charity on 4 July 2001. The Trust grew out of the wish of
the Aircrew Association (ACA) to record for future generations and historians
the unique experiences of aircrew. Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork MBE, BA, FRAeS,
RAF (Retd) was appointed the first Honorary Archivist of the Aircrew Association
in 1998. The ACA Archive Trust was formed to safeguard the ACA Archive and to
ensure that it would be available both to the general public and to historians
for research purposes. The Trustees have arranged that artefacts, records and
documents comprising the ACA Archive collection will be located in perpetuity
to the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington to ensure that they are given the full
protection afforded by the Museum, as a nationally registered museum, for permanent
conservation for the nation. The Museum now provides a specific display for
the Aircrew Association Archive Collection and the Trustees are working with
the Museum Director to develop plans for an expanded display of aircrew artefacts
and storage of more archive material
The
Trustees will be pleased to accept donations of material such as log books,
medals, photos, letters, scrapbook items and ephemera. We also need financial
contributions towards the running of the Trust and to further our aims of preserving
the history of that unique body of men and women who are or were aircrew.
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