Army Flying Museum Ticket Portal

Join Liz McConaghy in the Museum to hear about her amazing 17 year career flying the Chinook, making her the longest serving female crewman on the Royal Air Force Chinook Fleet. Liz was the youngest aircrew to deploy to Iraq aged just twenty-one and the only female crewman on the Chinook wing for 4 years, so her story is completely unique. Her career saw her amass two deployments to Iraq and ten deployments to Helmand Afghanistan in support of Operation Herrick and her story offers an insightful and personal perspective on war.

From dodging bullets to saving soldiers and witnessing the brutality and loss of war she found herself bringing the battlefield home, despite her fighting days being over. These memories eventually caught up with her years later in spectacular fashion, leading to her trying to take her own life to quieten her mind and find peace. She survived and her story concludes offering hope to those who have also found themselves in the darkest of places, if you look hard enough you can find the tools within you to begin to rebuild your pathway to a new life.