- Air Force: Private - Imperial War Museum
- Aircraft: Supermarine 300 Spitfire Ia
- Registration: G-CFGJ / N3200 / QV (cn 441) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1774
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 12, 2018
N3200 returning from a short test flight on the thursday prior to Flying Legends 2018 as seen from the 'Tank Bank' near the Land Warfare Hall at the western end of the airfield.
- Air Force: Private - Comanche Fighters Ltd
- Aircraft: Supermarine 349 Spitfire LF.Vc
- Registration: G-LFVC / JG891 / T-B Aircraft Info
- Views: 1508
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 15, 2018
JG891 took to the air again on 6th July 2018. The Spitfire in the markings of LF.Vc JK879 of 249 Squadron at RAF Takali (Ta Qali), Malta, as flown by F/Sgt John 'Jack' Hughes, RCAF, in 1943. Of note is the 'Saint'-emblem and the 26 bombing symbols.
- Air Force: Private - Air Leasing Ltd.
- Aircraft: Hispano HA-1112-M1L Buchon
- Registration: G-AWHH / WEISSE 9 (cn 145)
- Views: 1155
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 15, 2018
'Weiße 9' taking off from the grass runway to join the Balbo of Flying Legends 2018. This Buchón (C.4K-105) made her first post-restoration flight on 28th June 2018 from Sywell, flown by Richard Grace.
- Air Force: Private - Air Leasing Ltd.
- Aircraft: Hispano HA-1112-M1L Buchon
- Registration: G-AWHM / GELBE 7 (cn 187)
- Views: 1011
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 15, 2018
C.4K-99 is in her former Battle of Britain movie c/s as 'Gelbe 7' and made her first flight on 3rd May 2108 from Air Leasing's base at Sywell.
- Air Force: Private - Anglia Aircraft Restorations Ltd.
- Aircraft: North American TF-51D Mustang
- Registration: G-TFSI / 44-14251 / WZ-I (cn 124-44703)
- Views: 1181
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 12, 2018
Repaired following her belly landing on 9th July 2017, TF-51D 44-84847 is now in the c/s of P-51D 44-14251, the personal mount of Lt. Col Roy B. Caviness, 84th FS, 78th FG, based here at Duxford.
- Air Force: Private - Comanche Fighters LLC
- Aircraft: North American P-51D Mustang
- Registration: NL351MX / 44-13305 / WR-Z (cn 122-40931)
- Views: 1534
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 15, 2018
Dan Friedkin at the controls of P-51D 44-74391. The Mustang is in the markings of Capt. Henry W. 'Baby' Brown, 354th FS, 355th FG, flying from nearby Steeple Morden. He was shot down and captured on 3 October 1944.
- Air Force: Private - Red Bull
- Aircraft: Lockheed P-38L Lightning
- Registration: N25Y (cn 422-8509)
- Views: 1291
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 15, 2018
Red Bull Lightning N25Y leading F4U-4 Corsair in close formation. The Corsair is ex BuAerNo.96995 and was recovered from Honduras in 1979.
- Air Force: Private - Air Leasing Ltd.
- Aircraft: Hispano HA-1112-M1L Buchon
- Registration: G-AWHH / WEISSE 9 (cn 145)
- Views: 1222
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 15, 2018
Buchon C.4K-105 returned to the air on 28th June, 2018, in a Luftwaffe c/s, representing a Bf 109F-4 of III./JG 52 flown by Edmund 'Paule' Rossmann from Mironovka airfield, Ukraine, in September 1941.
- Air Force: Private - Air Leasing Ltd.
- Aircraft: Hispano HA-1112-M4L Buchon
- Registration: G-AWHC / ROTE 11 (cn 40/2)
- Views: 933
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 15, 2018
C.4K-112 is one of only 2 two-seat HA-1112M4L's constructed for the Spanish Air Force. She is seen here as 'Rote 11' in a fictious Luftwaffe c/s, similar to that worn in the summer of 1968 during the filming of The Battle of Britain movie here at Duxford.
- Air Force: Private - Fighter Aviation Engineering Ltd.
- Aircraft: Republic P-47D Thunderbolt
- Registration: G-THUN / 45-49192 / F4-J (cn 399-55731)
- Views: 1616
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 12, 2018
The red band on the cowling and red rudder identified the aircraft of the 492nd FS. The colours for the other two units of the 48th FG were blue (493rd FS) and the 494th FS: yellow.
- Air Force: Private - The Fighter Collection
- Aircraft: Curtiss P-40C Warhawk
- Registration: G-CIIO / 160-10AB (cn 16161)
- Views: 1130
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 15, 2018
TFC's P-40C 41-13357 is finished as P-40C 39-159 as used by the Technical Training Command at Chanute Field, Illinois, in 1940. Stripped of the standard olive drab camouflage, the aircraft served as a personal ‘hack’ for base excecutive staff.
- Air Force: Private - The Fighter Collection
- Aircraft: Curtiss P-40C Warhawk
- Registration: G-CIIO / 160-10AB (cn 16161)
- Views: 1157
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 12, 2018
The badge on the fuselage of TFC's P-40C reads 'Sustineo Alas' ('I sustain the wings') was applied to most of the training aircraft at Chanute Field. Her true identity is 41-13357, one of 2 P-40Cs acquired from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s by TFC.
- Air Force: Private - Fighter Aviation Engineering Ltd.
- Aircraft: Republic P-47D Thunderbolt
- Registration: G-THUN / 45-49192 / F4-J (cn 399-55731)
- Views: 1246
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 12, 2018
Back in UK skies is former TFC Thunderbolt G-THUN / NX47DD, now in the markings of P-47D-40-RA 45-49192 'Nellie', 492 FS, 48 FG as based at RAF Ibsley in Hampshire. G-THUN made her first flight from Sywell on 4 May 2018 in the hands of Pete Kynsey.
- Air Force: Private - Anglia Aircraft Restorations Ltd.
- Aircraft: Supermarine 349 Spitfire LF.Vc
- Registration: G-IBSY / EE602 / DV-V Aircraft Info
- Views: 1253
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 13, 2018
Westland-built Spitfire LF.Vc was presented to 129 (Mysore) Squadron at RAF Ibsley on 31 May, 1943, donated by the British community in Urugay. First post-restoration flight took place on 15 May, 2015 by Peter Monk from Biggin Hill.
- Air Force: Private - Aircraft Restoration Co.
- Aircraft: Supermarine 365 Spitfire PR.XI
- Registration: G-PRXI / PL983 / L (cn 6S/583723) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1716
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 13, 2018
PR.XI PL983 in her 1945 4 Squadron PR-blue colours. Note the one-piece windscreen and the name of Lettice Curtis, former Air Transport Auxiliary pilot, who broke the 100 km closed-circuit speed record of 313.208 mph in PL983 on 28 August 1948.
- Air Force: Private - The Fighter Collection
- Aircraft: Hawker Sea Fury T20
- Registration: G-CHFP / WG655 / GN910 (cn 41H/636070) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1453
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 15, 2018
Nick Grey flying as the Joker at the conclusion of Flying Legends 2018. The Sea Fury has been refitted with a Pratt & Whitney R2800-CB3 radial recently.
- Air Force: UK - Air Force
- Aircraft: Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B
- Registration: XV865 / 865 (cn B3-14-67) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1266
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England August 5, 2016
The 'Flying Shuftis' badge on the intake covers of XV865 dates from the 1930s when 208 Squadron was serving in the Middle East. In the centre is the eye of the Egyptian God Horus.
- Air Force: Private
- Aircraft: North American P-51D Mustang
- Registration: F-AZXS / 44-14237 / HO-W (cn 122-40196)
- Views: 2034
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 13, 2013
With the Mustang, the 352nd FG from Bodney in Norfolk, became one of the most successful in the Eighth Air Force. 'Moonbeam McSwine' was the personal a/c of William T. Whisner. By the end of the war Captain Whisner was credited with 15.5 victories.
- Air Force: Private - Red Bull
- Aircraft: Lockheed P-38L Lightning
- Registration: N25Y (cn 422-8509)
- Views: 1898
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 11, 2015
N25Y entered service as a photo recce F-5G-6-LO Lightning, serialled 44-53254. She had a long career in civilian hands before joining the European air show circuit in 2009. N25Y is part of The Flying Bulls, based at Salzburg, Austria.
- Air Force: Private - The Fighter Collection
- Aircraft: Curtiss P-36C Hawk
- Registration: NX80FR / 38-210 / PA-50 (cn 12624)
- Views: 1239
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 10, 2015
With pre-flight checks completed, pilot Steve Hinton is about to take the P-36C Hawk to the air on the eve of Flying Legends 2015, the Hawk's European air show debut. NX80FR is part of the unique TFC Curtiss stable.
- Air Force: Private - Spitfire Ltd.
- Aircraft: Supermarine 394 Spitfire FR.XVIIIe
- Registration: G-BUOS / SM845 / R (cn 6S/672224) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1514
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 11, 2015
The first FR.XVIII for the RAF, SM844, was issued on 28 May, 1945, and assigned to 28 Squadron in Hong Kong. The unit operated there from Sek Kong and Kai Tak. SM845 represents one of the unit's Spitfires. Pilot is former BBMF boss S/L Ian Smith.
- Air Force: Private
- Aircraft: Supermarine 509 Spitfire T.9
- Registration: G-LFIX / ML407 / OU-V (cn CBAF.8463) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1145
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 10, 2015
The well-known 'Grace Spitfire' undergoing maintenance at Duxford. Note the engineer reaching for his mug. ML407 is in her former c/s of 485 (New Zealand) Squadron and was taken on charge by 485 at RAF Selsey, on the south coast, on 30th April, 1944.
- Air Force: Private - Imperial War Museum
- Aircraft: Supermarine 300 Spitfire Ia
- Registration: G-CFGJ / N3200 / QV (cn 441) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1432
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England August 5, 2016
IWM's flagship is airworthy Spitfire Mk.Ia N3200, donated to the museum by the Kaplan family in 2015.
- Views: 1305
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England August 5, 2016
On display in Hangar 3 is former 814 Squadron HAS.6 XV712. Before coming to Duxford on the 27th May 2010, the HAS.6 served as a GIA (serial A2803 allocated) with the Royal Navy Engineering & Survival School at Gosport (HMS Sultan).