Sir David Jason OBE will be officially opening a new exhibition at the Yorkshire Air Museum on Wednesday March 19.

Produced in association with the Imperial War Museum, Against the Odds is a definitive exhibition and educational resource about Bomber Command in World War Two.

Against the Odds details and explores the international reasons for the formation of the unique force and the unparalleled sacrifice of its young airmen from all over the world in a highly visual way and shows the effects of the aerial bombing of cities and their populations.

Aviation enthusiast and honorary member of the Yorkshire Air Museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial Museum, Sir David Jason is expected to fly himself in to the museum by helicopter for the opening.

He joined the museum, based at Elvington and the site of the largest original Bomber Command station open to the public in Britain, in 2001.

This was after the filming of one of the most dramatic episodes of Tv serial A Touch Of Frost at the museum in 2001.

Sir David will attend a VIP reception which will include regional MPs, civil leaders, tourism industry chiefs and Bomber Command veterans from 12 noon.

The public opening ceremony will take place at around 2pm.

Museum director, Ian Reed, said: “This exhibition is the result of several years of very hard work and we are grateful for the help of the Imperial War Museum in this venture.

“It is probably the most fitting place in Britain for it to be located and we are especially pleased that our life member, Sir David Jason, has agreed to undertake a very rare public appearance on our behalf.”