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Header image: On 19th January 2020 clipped-wing Spitfire Mk IX MJ755 flew for the first time since 1953, after being restored at Biggin Hill. 97-year-old veteran RAF pilot George Dunn, the pilot who delivered MJ755 to the Hellenic Air Force in 1947, was there to see it. (Photo: Kostas D. Pantios)

Spitfire Mk LF IX MJ755 was built at Castle Bromwich in late 1943. It served with the RAF’s No 43 Squadron and took part in Operation Dragoon, flying cover for the Allied forces landing in the south of France in August 1944. The squadron hopped from airfield to airfield in France as the invasion progressed, and then moved to Peretola, Italy, in October 1944. At the end of the war in May 1945 the unit was flying from Klagenfurt in Austria.

Header image: Wg Cdr Paul Farnes DFM was the last surviving Battle of Britain fighter ace. 

We are sad to report on the death of the last surviving fighter ace of the Battle of Britain, Wing Commander Paul Farnes DFM, who passed away peacefully at his home on 28th January, aged 101.

A new exhibition, ‘A Century of Valour’, has opened at The Collection museum in Lincoln, courtesy of Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire in partnership with the RAF Museum, the Imperial War Museum, the Lord Ashcroft Collection and Lincolnshire County Council’s Heritage Service, with funding from the National Lottery.