Visitors to Sywell Aviation Museum will be able to see the "Dad's Army" displays, courtesy of Pitsford Home Guard's Living History Unit.

Museum secretary Ben Brown said: "The links with Pitsford Home Guard Living History Unit are new this year. We're showing a temporary exhibition on the Home Guard in Northampton and Sywell in particular.

"We're working in conjunction with them because we have got the base where they can display kit and we don't do re-enacting but they do.

"It's always nice when two groups work together . . . we complement each other. It's especially good for the children because they are in character."

Ian Rivett, an organiser with Pitsford Home Guard, said: "It's an opportunity to share our experience with other groups. We want to support each other at other events around the county. We're pooling our resources so that the visiting public can benefit from everybody."

Exhibits at Sywell show the history of the aerodrome, as well as aircraft parts, an Anderson shelter and a wartime kitchen. In 2007, the museum was given the title Museum of the Year at the Renaissance Northamptonshire Heritage Awards.

Richard Watts, chairman of the museum, said: "It's great to see the museum thriving. It becomes more and more popular every year with the young as well as the old.

"We're going to increase our capacity by about two-thirds; that's our major project."

Museum visitor Marion Williams, aged 37, from Wollaston, had taken her nine-year-old son Gareth to Sywell.

She said: "I think the museum's good, especially as the children learn about World War Two at school. It brings it to life."

Ex-RAF serviceman Larry Armstrong, aged 73, from Wellingborough, said: