No original examples of the Scout are known to have survived. This static replica was built for the 1962 Olympia Royal Tournament. It represents the first aircraft in the last batch of fifty Scout D’s for the Royal Flying Corps (serials A1742 to A1791).
The fin of Top Aces Skyhawk '542' celebrates 70 Years of NATO on this side and the 60th Anniversary of Jagdgeschwader 71 (Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 71) on the port side.
Skyhawk '532' (BuAerNo 159534) is ex Israeli IDF/AF and was registered in the USA as N266WL before transferring to the Canadian register as C-FGZO in February 2015.
'Skyhawk-4' coming back from the morning sortie, acting as high speed target north of the Frisian Islands. Former IDF/AF '321' was registered C-FGZS in February 2017.
'495' (BuAerNo.159823) patiently awaiting her pilot. Later in the morning the aircraft provided target facilities over the western coastline of Schleswig Holstein under callsign 'Skyhawk 8'.
This Bolingbroke IV is one of 676 aircraft built by the Fairchild Aircraft Company plant at Longueuil, Québec, Canada. RCAF-9048 entered service with No.8 (Bomber Reconnaissance) Squadron at RCAF Station Sydney, Nova Scotia, in November 1941.
RCAF-9048 will be restored in her original RCAF camouflage of No.8 (BR) Squadron as flown from RCAF Station Sydney (Nova Scotia) in November 1941 and RCAF Station Sea Island, located beside Vancouver Airport, from January 1942.
The third prototype of the EH-101/AW-101 Merlin was configured as a civil variant. G-EHIL was allocated British military serial ZH647 in 1993 and continued development flying until April 1999.
Previously registered ZK-RDK and based at Ashburton, in the South Island of New Zealand, the former USAAF PT-13D Model E75 (serial 42-17001) and Navy N2S-5 (BuAerNo.61042) became G-CIJN in February 2019. She is seen here returning from a local flight.
This side of ZD610 has the markings of No.801 Squadron (code ‘L-000’) applied, with those of No.800 Squadron (code ‘R-126’) on the port side. The Sea Harrier had earlier been on display at Bruntingthorpe.
Former RSAF Lightning F.53 (serial 53-672) dressed in late No.5 Squadron colours, representing Lightning F.6 XS935 as flown by the unit from RAF Binbrook in the autumn of 1987. The aircraft was scrapped in the spring of 1988.
WV798/E-147 in the colours of No.803 Squadron. This unit received the first Sea Hawk FGA.6s in January 1957, before embarking in HMS Eagle in the Mediterranean in August. The unit returned to RNAS Lossiemouth in March 1958 to convert to the Scimitar F.1.
XV148 first flew on 23 May 1967 with DH Chief Test Pilot John Cunningham at the controls. XV148 was flown to BAe Woodford in May 1982 to be used as a structural test rig for the Nimrod fleet.
Originally built in 1963 at Chester as a Comet 4C, the airframe was converted to HS.801 Nimrod configuration for prototype trials purposes. This aircraft was powered by four RR Spey turbofan engines; the other prototype, XV147, had four Avon engines.
XF375 first flew in August 1955 and served with Rolls Royce as Avon 203 engine test-bed, before going to the English Electric Company at Warton for Lightning trials work. In late 1962 she was assigned to the Empire Test Pilots School at Farnborough.
Dual-control Tornado GR.1 ZA319 had been on display at the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency at RAF Bicester before coming to Old Sarum in November 2021. Most of her operational career was spent at RAF Cottesmore, flying with the TTTE..
The elusive F-013 of 322 Squadron seen here on finals to RWY-23. Although delivered on 27 October 2020, the machine has clocked up only a few flying hours since.
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.