SPITFIRE PILOTS

Great pictures! Always a treat to see an old pilot next to a Spitfire! Is any more detail available about his life? ...

on: pilots, 2026-05-10 ... details

misread! ...

on: aircraft, 2026-04-28 ... details

Date mismatch with details in Sqn diary. "24/11/1941 Notified by No 3 Delivery Flight at Hawarden, that 5 Spitfire Mk II would be delivered ...

on: aircraft, 2026-04-28 ... details

AB817 09/10/43 11/01/44 MN-Z Lost its port wing on take off, F/O Lavigne unhurt. from ...

on: aircraft, 2026-04-23 ... details

He survived! ...

on: pilots, 2026-04-07 ... details

Steven that's really interesting. He was the fourth 232 Sqn pilot in a week to make the journey to Stalag Luft 3! My father was pulled in fr ...

on: pilots, 2026-03-27 ... details

I knew Ray Bellamy in the mid 70s after he had retired as Asst County Treasurer of West Sussex. He audited us and was always up for a chat. ...

on: pilots, 2026-03-25 ... details

It was an excellent read, and well written by the pilot himself, showing just how tough the African campaign was, the hardscrabble condition ...

on: pilots, 2026-03-21 ... details

ex-RAF X4617, to Portuguese "Aeronáutica Militar" squadron XZ w/ s/n 374, and not as 174 written by mistake. ...

on: aircraft, 2026-02-23 ... details

ex-RAF X4617, to Portuguese "Aeronáutica Militar" squadron XZ w/ s/n 174, involved in an mid-air collision w/ another ex-RAF Spitfire Mk.I ...

on: aircraft, 2026-02-23 ... details