Photo: Erik Holm ex Y-0233, G-AGDT, HM-AGDT, SE-BTO, LN-BDF. Crashed 13. February 1967 Kastrup (EKCH)

ex Y-0233, G-AGDT, HM-AGDT. Became LN-BDF, OY-AOT, crashed 13. February 1967 Kastrup (EKCH)

Taken during the Threshold Night Shoot at Sywell, this was the first public viewing of G-AFTL prior to her first test flight.

This aircraft actually served with the NEIAF as L2-38. It was on display at the MLM as L2-100 as used at Merauke in New Guinea by 120 Sqn in 1944.

Immaculate Electra at Yanks Air Museum. During World War II, this Electra was based across the USA in USAAF service as a utility aircraft.

This L-12A was built by Lockheed as NC16077 in October 1939. It was shipped to England in April 1939 aboard the SS Aquitania, registered G-AFTL for photographic duties around Europe and North Africa. This plane was the last British registered aircraft to leave Germany before the start of WWII. After the outbreak of the war it retained its civil reg. and was used as a camera ship and to test the efficiency of aircraft reporting system. It was badly damaged when a parachuted mine hit the hangar at Heston so returned to Lockheed for repairs. It would not return to UK skies again until March 2022.

Marked to represent Amelia Earhart's Lockheed L-10E Electra, this aircraft was first registered NC33615 in 1941, quickly passing to the USN as XR3O-2 BuNo 02947. Apparently taken on charge by the RAF in August 1945 as 'D2947' (seems suspect) but became G-AGTL in September 1945 when acquired by Sidney Cotton, famous for his recently restored Lockheed 12A G-AFTL which was used for clandestine reconnaissance over Germany before WW2. To F-BJJY in 1963 and F-AZLL with Le Gros Biplane Rouge in 1999.

First registered to British Airways in May 1939 and cancelled in November 1942 on sale in British Honduras where it became VP-TAI. It later became N12EJ and returned to the UK Register on 29th March 2022 with a No Flight Declaration made the same day. It may have returned to the air since then. A stunning aircraft!