Shackleton MR.3/Phase 3 XF708 was delivered new to No.203 Squadron at RAF Ballykelly on 6 February 1967 and served with this unit from RAF Luqa until her retirement. XF708 was flown to IWM Duxford on 22 August 1972.
F-AZZU taking-off to join the Flying Legends 2009 Balbo. The B-25 came to grief on 31st May 2011, in a forced landing in a field close to her base at Melun-Villaroche after the starboard engine caught fire.
Seen here on the Duxford turf a month before ‘Grumpy’ would cross the Atlantic on 29 August 2009, bound for Seattle, Washington State. She represents Mitchell III HD372 ‘VO-B', No.98 Squadron as based at RAF Dunsfold.
‘Liberty Belle’ will grace the skies once again. Work on the B-17 is underway at Asheville, North Carolina, as well as at the Brooks Aviation Center in Douglas, Georgia. True s/n is 44-85734.
The two Belles over Duxford, with ‘Liberty Belle’ leading ‘Memphis Belle’, B-17G 44-85784, G-BEDF. Both aircraft were built by Lockheed Vega at Burbank, California. True s/n is 44-85734.
A proud Belle on the Duxford platform, three years before she came to grief in a cornfield near Aurora Municipal Airport, Illinois, on 13 June 2011. She is currently under rebuild at the Brooks Aviation Center, Douglas, Georgia. True s/n is 44-85734.
IWM’s B-52D entered service with the 28th BW at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, in October 1957. She made more than 200 bombing missions during the Vietnam conflict. On 8 October 1983, a 7th BW crew flew the B-52 to Duxford.
V7497 was attacked by Bf 109s over Deal on 28 September, 1940. P/O Everett Bryan Rogers, 501 Squadron, RAF Kenley, bailed out unhurt. The Hurricane came down near East Sutton in Kent. G-HRLI took to the air again on 30 August 2018.
In the late fifties, WK991 was in use with 56 Squadron, flying the Hunter F.6 at RAF Wattisham, as a hack aircraft, first coded ‘V’ and later ‘A’. The F.8 is seen here, uncoded, in 56 Squadron markings.
Originally built by the Aircraft Manufacturing Company (Airco) at Hendon, E8894 was restored to flying condition by Retrotech and Aero Vintage Ltd and made her first post-restoration flight on 13 May 2019 in the hands of Shuttleworth pilot Roger Bailey.
Stewart Dawson taking off in the Comanche Mk.Ia to join the Balbo finale of Flying Legends 2013. On the previous day, he had to return early as the cooling of the Merlin 35 became a concern. Originally this 54 Squadron Mk.Ia had a Merlin III.
G-RJAH, seen here during the Duxford Air Show 2011, has since been reregistered as G-DINS, before becoming G-LIIZ in August 2020. The aircraft was delivered to the USAAC in 1942 as 42-15852.
XX307 taxiing to Duxford's main platform, acting as a spare for F/L Phil Bird's Solo Display Hawk (XX278). Just over a month later XX307 was flown to RAF Shawbury for storage.
P-51C-10-NT 43-25147 in the markings of Lt. William Whisner's P-51B-10-NA 42-106449, 487th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group in May 1944, based at USAAF Station 141 at Bodney in Norfolk.
Lt William T. Whisner scored 10.5 victories in P-51D 44-14237 in his second tour with the 352nd FG at RAF Bodney. On 21 November 1944 he downed five Fw 190’s, with another four Luftwaffe aircraft on 5 January 1945.
LZ766 was built in 1944 at Trafford Park, Manchester, by F. Hills & Sons and test flown at Barton. In 1949 the Proctor became G-ALCK. After some years with the Air Training Corps at Tamworth, the machine became part of the Skyfame Collection.