A look at the iconic combat aircraft, 90 years on from its first flight, and why it was the people's plane.

Veteran Spitfire pilot Peter Proctor gasps with excitement as he leaps out of a plane for the first time ... at the age of 92. Plucky Peter flew the legendary fighter plane after joining the RAF in ...

Jack Gillard, 2828 Squadron, RAF Regiment. Stationed at Perranporth, Spitfire Fighter Aerodrome. February 1944 as a member of a Bofors Anti-aircraft gun crew. We had been moved off the Ack-Ack site ...

BBC Breakfast viewers were amazed as 105-year-old WW2 Mosquito pilot Colin Bell celebrated his birthday on the show,.

On the morning of 7 August 1941, Lance Corporal Gordon Cowell of the 5th Royal West Kent Regiment, 12th Battalion, was putting up railing defences in Sandwich, Kent. In the distance he could see a ...

A British Royal Air Force pilot has died after the World War II era Spitfire he was flying crashed into a field in England. The RAF announced Saturday the pilot had died in a “tragic accident” near ...

Our tribute to a pilot's battle against the elements over the English Channel in 1940. An RAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk1 pilot is to be lost at sea as the weather closes in. Airmen lost in this way was ...

(CNN) — A British Royal Air Force pilot has died after the World War II era Spitfire he was flying crashed into a field in England. The RAF announced Saturday the pilot had died in a “tragic accident” ...

10:00, Sat, Sep 20, 2025 Updated: 12:10, Sat, Sep 20, 2025 Your patriotic Express went 'Chocs Away and Tally Ho!' in Blackpool - to 'Reach For The Skies' in the world's only full-size WWII Spitfire ...