British Airways 747 Retires to Dunsfold Aerodrome Dunsfold Aerodrome is delighted to confirm a second 747 will be taking up residence on the airfield from today, Thursday 22nd October, where it will begin its new life as a TV and film set. The retired British Airways 747, registration G-CIVW, will ...

Miss Pick Up is one of the world's only airworthy Catalina flying boats and is currently operated by Plane Sailing based in Duxford, Cambridge. We are a small team of dedicated pilots and volunteers who do it for the love of preserving this wonderful WWII flying boat. You can read more about our ai...

The UK based Catalina has been busy for the past week or so on a filming project for US and UK TV projects. Sadly, its not been without some issues - fortunately nothing that cannot be fixed.

;) Small piece of minor news about the team.... From a longer press release published this morning: he majority of the RAF Typhoon fleet will sport standard charcoal grey covers, but the Typhoon Display Team aircraft, operated by 29(R) Squadron at RAF Coningsby, will wear distinctive red covers. The...

This event has now been cancelled.

In what turned out to be their final airshow of the year, the Shuttlworth Collection celebrated 100 Years of the de Havilland Aeroplane Company. The weather was not too kind to the event and many of the de Havilland types scheduled were unable to make it to the event. However, there was still a very...

Unless something remarkable happens and the UK MoD end up owning the T-6C Texans I doubt they'll ever fly a solo display, let alone be put into a formation. They are not even owned by Ascent who only manage the MFTS, but by Affinity FTS along with the Prefect and Phenom 'fleets'. The Hawk T2 also co...

Sqn Ldr Tom Bould wil take over as Red 1 for the 2021 season. https://twitter.com/rafredarrows/status/1313350028644298752 A new Red Arrows Team Leader, who previously flew Typhoon jets on the frontline, is about to begin training for next display season. Squadron Leader Tom Bould takes over as Red 1...

There have been very few events to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, but the Aero Legends team did manage to reschedule their event to the end of September. The late September weather wasn't ideal for an airshow with some strong winds and squally rain showers, but they did manage a...

IWM Duxford may have been unable to deliver its 2020 Air Show season as hoped but flying fans can catch spectacular displays and moving tributes to those who fought in the Battle of Britain on Saturday 10 October. IWM Duxford will welcome visitors to its final Showcase Day of the year on Saturday 1...