Stephen Gray’s Spitfire IX, ML417/G-BJSG made a 10min first flight at Booker on February 10, 1984, piloted by Tony Bianchi, who reported only “minimal” problems. Originally a single-seater, it was converted to a two-seater, becoming G-15-11 and then HS543 with the Indian Air Force. Its reconversion to a single-seater necessitated moving the cockpit back 13in.

The Imperial War Museum's Bristol Fighter arrives at Skysport Engineering

The Imperial War Museum's Bristol Fighter gets its new fabric covering in time to go back on display for Easter.

Britannia 312 XX367 lands at Cranfield Aerodrome, Bedfordshire, at the end of a short ferry flight from the A&AEE at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, on February 24, 1984 - the last flight of a Britannia in military markings. The aircraft has been sold to an operator in Zaire.

Solent ZK-AMO and Sunderland NZ4115 dominate the line-up at New Zealand's Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland.

Suspended in the atrium of the Hyatt Hotel in Budapest, Hungary, is this reproduction of the Horvath Erno IIIC Fecsket (Swallow) monoplane, an indigenously designed and built aircraft of the 1910/11 period. A dummy of the original Daimler engine is fitted.