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Royal Air Force, it is a former French Navy aircraft Supermarine Spitfire F.24: VN485 Royal Air Force Westland Lysander: V9673 Royal Air Force – No. 161 Squadron markings, coded MA-J, a former Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft. Westland Wessex HAS.1: XS863 Fleet Air Arm – 815 NAS, coded 304/R: Westland Whirlwind HAS.7: XK936 Fleet Air Arm
Major air shows held regularly include the Duxford Air Show, and American Air Day, which is held in conjunction with units of the Third Air Force (part of the United States Air Forces in Europe), based at nearby RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall. [38] The Flying Legends show (organised by The Fighter Collection), was held annually at Duxford ...
In addition most of the 78th FG's pilots were also transferred to the Twelfth Air Force as replacements. Thus the group was re-equipped with Republic P-47C Thunderbolts and remained at Duxford. Aircraft of the group were identified by a black/white chequerboard pattern. The group consisted of the following squadrons: 82d Fighter Squadron (MX)
A composite aircraft built from the parts of two Beaufighters. Under long term restoration to flying condition. Curtiss Model 75A-1 Hawk: 82/X881 (G-CCVH) [6] Issued to the French French Air Force 1939. It was later flown in combat against the British and Americans by the Vichy French Air Force. Post-war it served as a trainer until the 1950s ...
It was last assigned to the 78th Fighter Wing, at Hamilton Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on 1 February 1961. During World War II the group was an Eighth Air Force fighter unit stationed in England assigned primarily to RAF Duxford. It claimed 338 air-to-air and 358 air-to-ground aircraft destroyed.
The squadron was formed on 10 July 1940 at RAF Duxford. [1] It was the first RAF squadron to be raised crewed by foreign nationals, in this case escaped Czechoslovak pilots. Initially it had two Squadron Leaders : the British Douglas Blackwood [ 2 ] and the Czechoslovak Alexander Hess .
Former civil aircraft G-AOVF bought by the Museum in 1984 and painted to represent XM497 of Royal Air Force Air Support Command Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina: L-866: Royal Danish Air Force: Hawker Hunter F.6A: XG225: No. 237 Squadron RAF: Hawker Hunter FR.10: XF426: Hawker Siddeley Dominie T.1: XS709: M: No. 3 Flying Training School RAF: Hawker ...
Royal Air Force: Morayvia, Kinloss, Moray, Scotland: On static display Last Vickers Valiant ever built. Cockpit in preservation [6] [7] XD826 1956 December 15th, 1956 December 1964 Royal Air Force: Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England: On static display Cockpit only [8] [9] XD857 1957 January 5th, 1957 February 19th, 1965 ...