Amongst many more modern aircraft on display at the nascent Russian National Aeronautical Museum at Khodynka, Moscow, in mid-August was this Polikarpov Po-2.

Messerschmitt Bf 109G 10639/G-USTV demonstrates the effectiveness of its desert camouflage over the ripening grain fields of Cambridgeshire in August 1991. Issued by the MoD five-and-a-half months after the fighter’s post-restoration maiden flight, this was the first air-to-air photograph of the aircraft to be released - an echo of the BAe/Shuttleworth publicity failure with the D.H.88 Comet racer in 1987.

The remains of a Handley Page Hampden from Russia at Rotterdam on August 13, 1991, awaiting removal to the UK. In this view the port wing (visible at lower left) has just been separated from the fuselage, on which an RAF roundel may still be discerned.

The Santa Monica Museum of Flying’s newly-acquired "Japan­ese Air Force", recovered from Babo Island, Indonesia: Kawasaki Ki-61 Tony;

The Santa Monica Museum of Flying’s newly-acquired "Japan­ese Air Force", recovered from Babo Island, Indonesia: Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero. The Zero is already under restoration.

The Santa Monica Museum of Flying’s newly-acquired "Japan­ese Air Force", recovered from Babo Island, Indonesia: Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty;

The Santa Monica Museum of Flying’s newly-acquired "Japan­ese Air Force", recovered from Babo Island, Indonesia: Yokosuka D4Y1 Judy;

Recently unveiled at the Finnish Air Force Flying School at Kauhava, this Letov S.218 A4 Smolik trainer has been rebuilt for static display in the Finnish Aviation Museum by a group of volunteers led by Seppo Uolamo.