Prototype Lancaster B7 which was converted from a Lancaster B1. Used for gun turret trials and later passed to the Blind Landing Experimental Unit from late-1945, Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Used as a trials aircraft for planned updates to production Spitfires. Struck off charge in April 1947. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

The airfield at Bad Aibling was built before the war and used for training. Became a PoW camp after the war and then a camp for displaced people. The site next became a Cold War monitoring station for the American military. Finally in 2004 it was returned to German ownership. Its use as an airfield ended with the war. The swastika on the tail looks to have been souvenired. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

Sold for scrap in 1946. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

Transferred to an RAF squadron after VE Day. Was still in service as late as May 1949. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Crashed at Grebe Valley on January 24, 1947. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

Formerly with JG.10/51. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

A nice historic image of the first SAI KZ.IV in the markings of the Zonen rescue organisation. Count Bernadotte used this aircraft around this time while negotiating the release of 30,000 people from German concentration camps. Photo by: Christoffersen / National Museum of Denmark

The fifth production Vampire soon after completion by English Electric at Samlesbury near their Preston works complex. EEC built nearly 1300 Vampires between 1945 and 1952. The Goblin in TG278 was replaced by a Ghost and extended wings fitted. On 23 March 1948, DH test pilot John Cunningham set a world altitude record of 59,446 feet. Obtained from EEC over 50 years ago.