Downloaded this thanks, Dave. Will listen to it later. Nice link to the IWM Beaufighter video. We visited Dallachy last year and wandered around the old airfield. Good to see the control tower still there – hopefully it will be restored one day.

The aircraft are housed in an annexe to the main maritime museum which is within this magnificent building –

Continuing with the outside exhibits –

One of my favourite pics on the walls is this one of the 50th Anniversary of Sintra Air Base. What a wonderful line-up! –

The airfield today taken from the Moorish Castle. The museum buildings are centre left –

Just to update this thread – some photos taken during a recent stopover in the Lisbon area. The Sintra museum has matured and expanded since 2011. Surely one of the nicest aviation museums in the world.

We have recently returned from holiday in the Azores flying via Lisbon. Being interested in the history of many of the places we visited I came across a few Portuguese websites of great interest. This one in particular has a lot of pictures and information (in Portuguese) relevant to this thread including the changing runway layouts at Lisbon. Click ‘Mensagens Antigas’ at the bottom of each page to continue reading.

http://restosdecoleccao.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Aeroporto%20de%20Lisboa

Also this one relating to the Clippers –

http://restosdecoleccao.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Clippers

The website has a lot more aviation content accessible down the right-hand side of the page.

Mention of the Puss Moth reminds me of this photo I took in the museum at Sintra. Named “Marao” it completed the first Lisbon to India flight.

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This is great news! Look forward to hopefully seeing it in the skies in the near future. Having flown with SMT, Midland & Scottish Air Ferries and Highland Airways it’s nice to have her “home” again.