Battle of Britain pilot Paddy Hemingway, who served from the first day of the Second World War to the very last and was shot ...

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) stopped using its Merlin-engined Hurricanes and Spitfires following the death of Sqn Ldr Mark Long on 25 May 2024. The pilot was killed when the Spitfire ...

A World War two Spitfire ace has been reunited with the airframe for the first time in 80 years at the Australian ...

A pilot died after a replica Spitfire crashed during a test flight, an inquest heard. Trevor Bailey, 68, was killed on August 22, 2023, after the aircraft - named Molly - went into a spiral dive ...

The family of a former RAF squadron leader who helped to found the world's largest humanitarian airline has said he left "a ...

The UK’s RAF has confirmed that its historic Hurricane and Spitfire warbirds will return to airshow flying duties in 2025 ...

A two-seat Spitfire tipped onto its nose in a crash-landing after its “distracted” pilot turned on an empty fuel tank by mistake, accident investigators said. The vintage fighter, which saw ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A jury inquest has commenced into the death of a Spitfire pilot who was testing the replica aircraft in Oxfordshire when he ‘spun’ to ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A forensic pathologist said he could not rule out that a Spitfire pilot who ‘spun’ to his death in Oxfordshire had an incident with his ...

after the RAF confirmed the pilot had died "in a tragic accident near RAF Coningsby" that day. Per the Associated Press and the BBC, it was a World War II-era Spitfire fighter plane belonging to ...

The pilot was killed when the Spitfire he was flying crashed in a field near RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. In a social media post, the BBMF said it would be flying all its aircraft again during ...