The Historic Aircraft Collection has an exciting array of special ‘At Home’ days scheduled for the coming winter. Read more
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P-47 Thunderbolt returns to UK airshow scene
Introducing P-47D Thunderbolt ‘Nellie’ (G-THUN), the new star of the British airshow scene. Read more
WWI Aviation Heritage Trust launches funding appeal
The World War One Aviation Heritage Trust (WWI AHT) has launched an urgent appeal to fund the return of Trustee Oliver Wulff’s airworthy Albatros DVa and SE5a fighters from New Zealand. Read more
Historic Chipmunk to join Finest Hour Fleet
Spring 2018 should see the return to flight of historic de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk WB549 (G-BAPB) – the first Chipmunk built in the UK. Read more
New chapter for the WWI Aviation Heritage Trust
A flurry of aeroplane movements signifies the beginning of a new chapter for the WWI Aviation Heritage Trust Ltd (WWI AHT) at Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome. Read more
Hawker Sea Fury T.20 VX281 (G-RNHF) returns to flight
Hawker Sea Fury T.20 VX281 (G-RNHF) returns to flight at North Weald Airfield, Essex, following the conclusion of a three-year restoration by Weald Aviation Services Ltd. Read more
Steve Hinton, Jr breaks Absolute Propeller-Driven Piston Powered 3-Km speed record
Steve “Steve-o” Hinton, Jr breaks the Absolute Propeller-Driven Piston Powered 3-Km speed record in P-51D Mustang ‘Voodoo‘. Read more
P-51B ‘Berlin Express’ begins transatlantic crossing
P-51B Mustang Berlin Express sets off on its epic transatlantic crossing. Read more
Horsemen Flight Team to headline Flying Legends 2017
One of the headline acts at the 25th Flying Legends airshow will be the return of the US-based Bremont Horsemen Flight Team, displaying this year with three P-51D Mustangs. Amongst them is the débuting P-51D Frenesi, which is being brought to Duxford specially for the event. Read more
Visitors to Paris Air Legend in early September were treated to seeing one of Europe's finest Mustangs - P-51D Frances Dell.![]()
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Frances Dell was sold to George Raab in 2020 and is based at Siegerland in western Germany. The Mustang flew for many years from the late 1980s until 2011 as 'Glamorous Gal' of the 339th Fighter Group when it suffered a landing accident, and the aircraft was entrusted to experts Midwest Aero Restorations, Ltd. to get it flying once again. The Mustang re-flew in 2014 as Frances Dell and attended EAA Airventure at Oshkosh in 2019 where it won the award for best P-51.![]()
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P-51D Mustang Frances Dell
The Airbus owned Messerschmitt Me-262 reproduction was one of the stars of the Paris Air Legend airshow in early September, displaying under clear blue skies on both days.![]()
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Completed in 2005, Me-262A-1c D-IMTT was built by The Me 262 Project at Paine Field in Everett near Seattle, Washington. The company had been formed to take over an earlier project to create five reproductions of the early jet fighter, of which four were to flying condition, using an original airframe as a template whilst it was restored for a museum. The new Me-262s were made using the same techniques and materials employed by Messerschmitt, with only a few modern concessions for safety, such as the use of General Electric CJ610 engines in place of the original Junkers Jumo 004Bs.![]()
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📷 Huw Hopkins
The Cambridge Flying Group recently moved from their longstanding base at Cambridge Airport to Old Warden. Operating two beautiful yellow and silver Tiger Moths, the group offers experience flights, tailwheel and type conversions, aerobatic and formation training as well as scholarships.![]()
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G-AOEI is a particularly historic airframe, having served with the British Expeditionary Force in France during 1939-40, leaving France just a few days before the Dunkirk evacuation. 'Echo India' was also originally acquired by the CFG from the Shuttleworth Collection in 1957, so it is fitting that it has now returned to Old Warden.![]()
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The pair of Tiger Moths displayed at the Shuttleworth Carnival Airshow, flying with the Collection's Tiger Moth before a wonderful tailchase as a pair.![]()
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📷 Huw Hopkins
September 15th marks Battle of Britain Day - the anniversary of the largest aerial battle of the conflict. Throughout this day in autumn 1940, RAF Fighter Command fought off successive large-scale Luftwaffe attacks and it is remembered as the day the tide of the war turned; though the invasion of Great Britain was called off in its aftermath, it would be four years and eight months before the Second World War ended and the people of Europe were rewarded with peace.![]()
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📷 John Dibbs
The weekend of 9-10th September saw the fifth edition of the Paris Air Legend airshow held at Melun-Villaroche. The scorching temperatures matched the red hot lineup of aircraft that surely made it one of the best European airshows of the last few years.![]()
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📷 Huw Hopkins
