Stephen Gray's Spitfire IX, ML417, during an engine run at Booker in December 1983. Personal Plane Services hoped to fly the aircraft “early in the new year”.

Late in November, the DC-2 loaned to KLM to masquerade as PH-AJU Uiver for the MacRobertson Race commemorative flight from Mildenhall to Australia, paid a brief visit to Duxford for filming. The aircraft, NC39165, is to star in a Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation three-part documentary about the race, due to be broadcast next October to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the MacRobertson Race and KLM’s 65th birthday.

Late in November, the DC-2 loaned to KLM to masquerade as PH-AJU Uiver for the MacRobertson Race commemorative flight from Mildenhall to Australia, paid a brief visit to Duxford for filming. The aircraft, NC39165, is to star in a Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation three-part documentary about the race, due to be broadcast next October to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the MacRobertson Race and KLM’s 65th birthday.

Monarch G-AFJU as lot 63 of the Strathallan Auction, 1981.

To mark the 70th anniversary of the first passenger carrying service, the Florida Aviation Historical Society has built this airworthy replica of the Benoist 14b Airboat.