In the 'Spies in the Skies' exhibition here until late February 2024. Adapted for use as a reconnaissance aircraft by the Secret Intelligence Service in 1939. Flown by Sidney Cotton, one of the founding fathers of the PRU, this was the last British civilian aircraft to leave Berlin before the outbreak of the Second World War.

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

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.

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!