The Imperial War Museums plans to move three significant, four-engined aeroplanes out of IWM Duxford’s AirSpace building as part of a masterplan that will see it repurposed as a Cold War exhibition.
Almost exactly nine years after it was damaged in a forced landing, Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX MK912 (G-BRRA) returned to the skies on July 31 from London’s Biggin Hill Airport, with Dan Griffith at the controls.
The Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) has released the report on the accident of a Grumman Wildcat at Heveningham Hall, Suffolk, that left the pilot seriously injured.
The cockpit sections of Dassault Mirage 5BA BA-27 and Mirage 5BR BR-22 have been added to the collection assembled by the Mirage 5 BD-09 Restoration Group, also known as the Mirage Team BD-09, located in Hangar H27 at the former Belgian Air Force air base at Brustem, just east of Sint-Truiden.
The only surviving Caproni Ca 310 twin-engine reconnaissance machine is now approaching the end of a lengthy restoration in the workshops of the Flyhistorisk Museum at Sola, south-western Norway.