Test rigged with wings installed

Airworthy Harvard belonging to The Fighter Collection. This aircraft was built in Dec 1942 at Montreal. She served with No. 1 Training Command, RCAF until struck off charge in June 1947. After refurbishment, the Harvard served as an advanced trainer with the Swedish Air Force from Aug 1948 till Mar 1972. It then went to a technical school as an instructional airframe. It joined TFC in 1990 and returned to the air in May 1996. The restoration shows a machine gun fitted to the starboard wing.

Standing inside the hangar at Duxford, this Gladiator flew in 2008 after lengthy restoration. Last of the 25 Gladiator Mk.IIs built under Contract 773235/38, the aircraft was probably delivered to No. 141 Sqn. at RAF Grangemouth in 1939. Transferred into storage and onto 61 OTU in 1943, it was to be converted for meteorological survey work in 1944. Sold postwar to different owners, it was bought by The Fighter Collection and restored with a 'swift volant' on the blue tail as a No. 72 Sqn. Gladiator flown by the 'B' Flight commander.

Originally Bu.86711. To N4845V in 1964. Came to the Fighter Collection at Duxford in 1992. Reregistered as G-RUMW in 1998.

This early Hawk was saved from a scrapyard in France in the 1950s and acquired by The Fighter Collection in 1990. It wears an authentic Armée de l'Air standard three-tone scheme with GC 11/5 markings on the port side and Lafeyette Escadrille Sioux Indian head motif (the TFC logo) and code "8" on the starboard side. It has "81" under the port wing and "X8" under the starboard wing.