Resident at Duxford before restoration and remarking as MK-V

First registered to Express Airways, Gladstone, Queensland in 1974 and then passed to a private owner in Central Queensland but stored in a shed for many years.

Climbing out from runway 27L Heathrow.

Built as a P51-D-30-NA for the USAAF, 1945 - s/n 44-74409. SOC 1950 and to RCAF with s/n 9235. SOC 1958. To the US and a number of private owners with c/r N6319T - landed wheels up 4 July 1970. Became N4409, N555BM. To Caraccas Venezuela as YV-508-CP from 1982 to 1990. Back to US as N51RT. Markings 4313317 applied 2002. Last flight 2 September 2003. Donated to RAF Museum.

Displayed with a portion of the center section from the 1964 Farnborough crash.

The Northrop, F-20 Tigershark had a General Electric F404-GE-100 turbofan engine that gave speeds up to Mach 2.0 and featured modern avionics, a "Hands On Throttle And Stick" (HOTAS) control system, composite materials, new weapons systems and a powerful beyond visual range General Electric AN/APG-67 air to air/ground pulse doppler radar with a Heads Up Display (HUD). It never went into production and only three production standard aircraft were ever completed of which two were lost. This aircraft is ex 82-0064.

Spitfire P9306 and behind, another WWII veteran Stuka, A5-HL one of only two complete Stukas in the world. P9306 was the 508th Spitfire built and first flew 19 January 1940. Assigned to 74 Sqd, Hornchurch on 6th July 1940, it moved to a number of airfields and flew throughout the Battle of Britian. With five enemy aircraft claimed destroyed, by October 1941 it was transferred to training duties and withdrawn from active service in January 1944. Shipped to Chicago in October 1944. Stuka JU-87R-2, A5-HL was found abandoned in Libya in 1941 and at some stage sent to the US. Restored in 1974.

First flight from Eastleigh, April 2, 1940. Assigned to 72 Squadron, June 4, 1940. Flew in Battle of Britain. Cat.3 damaged on landing following P/O Elliot passing out due to lack of oxygen, July 3, 1940. Never again flew operationally. Transferred over the years to many RAF locations. Restored to static display condition, 1961. Science Museum Store, Sydenham, London, December 16, 1954-1963. Science Museum, South Kensington, London, 1963. Displayed in 72 Sqn markings 'P9444/RN-D'.

The engine cowls were off for some reason revealing engine number - 20 374 -

Delivered to the Royal Air Force on 25 October 1918 it was then sent to No. 1 Aircraft Acceptance Park, Coventry where it received its name 'Paddy Bird from Ceylon'. Dispatched to France, arriving on 11 November 1918. As hostilities had just ceased it was sent back, still crated, and went into store at RAF Tadcaster. It was later transferred to RAF Cardington, from where it was retrieved in 1935 and sent to the Imperial War Museum where it stayed until 1974 and then transferred to Duxford. Apart from another example in the Musee Royal l'Armee, Brussels, it is only one of two original aircraft.

This first example of the Bleriot XI, was used by Louis Blériot to make the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft, on 25 July 1909.

The aircraft was captured during the Western Desert campaign and brought back to South Africa as a war prize. Although the identity is unknown, it is displayed as White 6 I/JG27.

Started out as a fuselage frame built from new wood and original fittings from three aircraft and displayed in 1972 in the newly opened museum. In early 1983 construction of a complete replica commenced. A replica Renault engine was constructed at RAF Cardington Restoration Centre with an original propeller acquired from a garage in Weston-super-Mare. Final fabric covering and rigging completed at Cardington in 1990-91. Delivered to Hendon in 1992 and installed in the Bomber Hall. Moved to the Grahame White Hangar in April 2012.