TF-51D Mustang ‘Contrary Mary’ and Republic P-47D
TF-51D Mustang ‘Contrary Mary’ and Republic P-47D Thunderbolt 'Nellie' fly in formation during the Duxford Air Festival at Imperial War Museum Duxford, England, May 26, 2019. One of the best-performing allied f... More
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly over RAF Duxford,
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly over RAF Duxford, England, July 10, 2017. The Thunderbirds flew over several bases and landmarks in preparation for the 2017 Royal International Air Tattoo being held at RAF ... More
TF-51D Mustang ‘Contrary Mary’ and Republic P-47D
TF-51D Mustang ‘Contrary Mary’ and Republic P-47D Thunderbolt 'Nellie' taxi to the runway during the Duxford Air Festival at Imperial War Museum Duxford, England, May 26, 2019. One of the best-performing allied... More
Duxford Air Festival attendees watch aerial performances
Duxford Air Festival attendees watch aerial performances at Imperial War Museum Duxford, England, May 26, 2019. The 2019 Festival celebrated the jet engine, which entered operational military service in 1944 an... More
B-17 Flying Fortress G-BEDF 'Sally B' performs an aerial
B-17 Flying Fortress G-BEDF 'Sally B' performs an aerial demonstration during the Duxford Air Festival at Imperial War Museum Duxford, England, May 26, 2019. Built as a Boeing B-17G-105-VE c/n 8693, the future ... More
Captured Ju 88A-5 on the ground
A captured Junkers Ju 88 A-5, RAF serial HM509, of No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft Circus) Flight based at Collyweston, Northamptonshire. Formerly "M2+MK" of Küstenfliegergruppe 106, this aircraft fell into British ha... More
Ju88 englisch - Australia in World War Two
A captured Junkers Ju 88 A-5, RAF serial HM509, of No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft Circus) Flight based at Collyweston, Northamptonshire, in flight. Formerly "M2+MK" of Küstenfliegergruppe 106, this aircraft fell into... More
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection CH1429
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection Public domain photograph of jet aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection CH1434
Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection Armourers preparing belts of .303-inch ammunition for Hawker Hurricane Mk I DU-J (serial L1926) of No. 312 (Czech) Squadron RAF. Flown by Alois Vašátko it share... More
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Cierva C.30a (rota. 1). CH1...
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Cierva C.30a (rota. 1). Rota Mark I, possibly K4239 of No. 5 Radio Maintenance Unit Calibration Flight, being wheeled into position by groundcrew at Duxford, Cambridge... More
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Hawker Typhoon. HU48147
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Hawker Typhoon. The fifth production Typhoon Mark IA, R7580, parked at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, while being tested by the Air Fighting Development Unit. The following... More
American Aircraft in RAF Service 1939-1945- Bell Model 14 Airacobra. C...
American Aircraft in RAF Service 1939-1945- Bell Model 14 Airacobra. Airacobra Mark I, AH577, of No. 601 Squadron RAF, on the ground at Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
American Aircraft in Royal Air Force Service 1939-1945- Vultee-stinson...
American Aircraft in Royal Air Force Service 1939-1945- Vultee-stinson Model 74 Vigilant. Vigilant, HL432, of the Air Fighting Development Unit based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, in flight.
American Aircraft in Royal Air Force Service, 1939-1945- Curtis Hawk 8...
American Aircraft in Royal Air Force Service, 1939-1945- Curtis Hawk 87a Kittyhawk. Kittyhawk Mark I, AK573, on the ground at Prestwick after erection by Scottish Aviation Ltd. AK573 subsequently joined the Ai... More
Bell Airacobra Mk I of No. 601 Squadron RAF at Duxford, Cambridgeshire...
Bell Airacobra Mk I of No. 601 Squadron RAF at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, 21 August 1941. Airacobra Mark I, AH576 ‘UF’, of No. 601 Squadron RAF, on the ground at Duxford, Cambridgeshire. The aircraft was detache... More
Bell Airacobra Mk I of No. 601 Squadron RAF based at Duxford, Cambridg...
Bell Airacobra Mk I of No. 601 Squadron RAF based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, 21 August 1941. Airacobra Mark I, AH577, of No. 601 Squadron RAF based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, in flight. This aircraft was cod... More
Ground staff examine the damage to the elevators of a Boulton-Paul Def...
Ground staff examine the damage to the elevators of a Boulton-Paul Defiant Mk I of No. 264 Squadron RAF at Duxford, following a battle with German fighters over Dunkirk, 29 May 1940. Riggers examining the damag... More
Hurricane Mk IIBs of 'B' Flight, No. 601 Squadron, based at Duxford, 2...
Hurricane Mk IIBs of 'B' Flight, No. 601 Squadron, based at Duxford, 21 August 1941. Six Hurricane Mk IIBs of 'B' Flight, No. 601 Squadron RAF based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, flying in starboard echelon forma... More
Ministry of Aircraft Production Second World War Official Collection E...
Ministry of Aircraft Production Second World War Official Collection Captured Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3, DG200, in flight while serving with No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft) Flight. Formerly 'Black 12' of 2/JG51, this ... More
North American Mustang Mk I of the Air Fighting Development Unit at Du...
North American Mustang Mk I of the Air Fighting Development Unit at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, February 1942. Mustang Mark I, AG365, of the Air Fighting Development Unit, on the ground at Duxford, Cambridge. Thi... More
Pilots and Hawker Hurricanes of No. 56 'Punjab' Squadron RAF at Duxfor...
Pilots and Hawker Hurricanes of No. 56 'Punjab' Squadron RAF at Duxford, 2 January 1942. Pilots and Hurricanes of No 56 'Punjab' Squadron at Duxford, 2 January 1942. The official caption reads: 'Fighter aircraf... More
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command CH1433
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command An RAF sergeant introduces two Czech fitters to the inner workings of a No 310 Squadron Hurricane at Duxford, October 1940. Clearly visible in this photograph is the r... More
Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. CH1342
Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. Three decorated fighter pilots of No. 242 (Canadian) Squadron RAF, standing outside the Officers' Mess at Duxford, Cambridgeshire. They are (left to right): Pilot O... More
Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. CH15606
Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. Junkers Ju 88A-4, EE205, of No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft Circus) Flight is started up at Collyweston, Northamptonshire. Originally 4D-DL of 3/KG30, the aircraft landed b... More
Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. CH5096
Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. Captured Fiat CR.42, BT474, of the Air Fighting Development Unit, parked in a dispersal at Duxford, Cambridgeshire. The aircraft was salvaged following a forced land... More
Sergeant Bohumil Furst of No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron is greeted b...
Sergeant Bohumil Furst of No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron is greeted by the squadron mascot on returning to Duxford after a sortie in his Hawker Hurricane Mk I, 7 September 1940. Sergeant B Furst of No. 310 (Cz... More
Squadron Leader Douglas Bader with pilots of No. 242 Squadron in front...
Squadron Leader Douglas Bader with pilots of No. 242 Squadron in front of his Hawker Hurricane at Duxford, September 1940. Squadron Leader Douglas Bader DSO (front centre) with some of the Canadian pilots of hi... More
Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIa aircraft of the Air Fighting Development U...
Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIa aircraft of the Air Fighting Development Unit based at Duxford, 6 April 1942. Spitfire Mark IIA, P7290 AF-V, of the Air Fighting Development Unit based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, ... More
WAAF telephone operators in RAF Fighter Command's Sector 'G' Operation...
WAAF telephone operators in RAF Fighter Command's Sector 'G' Operations Room at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, receiving reports of enemy aircraft plots from Observer Corps posts, September 1940. WAAF telephone opera... More
Duxford Aerodrome - 78th Fighter Group - P-47 Thunderbolts
P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft of the 78th Fighter Group at Duxford. Handwritten on slide casing:"3-12".
Duxford Aerodrome - 78th Fighter Group - P-51D Mustang 44-63216) Anne ...
A P-51 Mustang aircraft (HL-A, serial number 44-63216), named "Anne Nihilator", the pilot being assisted into the aircraft is Colonel John Landers, Commanding Officer of the 78th Fighter Group - based at Duxfor... More
Duxford Aerodrome - 78th Fighter Group - P-51D Mustang 44-72218 Sweet ...
A P-51 Mustang aircraft - WZ-S (serial number 44-72218), named "Sweet and Lovely", of the 78th Fighter Group, Duxford. The aircraft was piloted by Lieutenant Thomas V. Thain. Handwritten on slide casing:"WZ-S D... More
78fg-p51 - A small plane sitting on top of an airport tarmac
P-51D-20-NA serial number 44-63279 of the 78th Fighter Group, 83rd Fighter Squadron - World War II. This aircraft was assigned to Col. Frederick C. Gray Jr., and was nicknamed "Mr. Ted III".
504th Fighter Squadron. P-51B 42-106886
Lt. Duane S "Swede" Larson, [Regent ND], 504th Fighter Squadron. P-51B 42-106886 5Q-O "Swede"
Duxford Aerodrome - Ammunition Storage Area
Ammunition area at Duxford air base where the 78th Fighter Group were based between April 1943 and October 1945. 8 September 1944.
Duxford Aerodrome - 78th Fighter Group - Control Tower Officers
Senior USAAF personnel including Colonel Stone and General H Arnold on the control tower at Duxford during a visit to the 78th Fighter Group, 1943 Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Brass at S.M. 2nd from right ... More
84th Fighter Squadron - Duxford Aerodrome
Group shot of 84th Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group, pilots at Duxford. Summer 1944.
Duxford Aerodrome - 78th Fighter Group - P-47 Bad Medicine
Captain Harold E. Stump and Second Lieutenant George J. Hays of the 78th Fighter Group with a P-47 Thunderbolt nicknamed "Bad Medicine", 15 October 1943. Passed for publication 15 Oct 1943. Handwritten caption... More
Duxford Aerodrome - 78th Fighter Group - Personnel with Truck
Three pilots (in the boots) of the 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group, stand around a jeep at Duxford air base with other officers. They are Flight Officer Manuel S. Martinez (left of vehicle), Second L... More
Duxford Aerodrome - 78th Fighter Group - 82d FS P-47 Thunderbolts
A line of 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group P-47 Thunderbolts at Duxford airbase. The two at the front are MX-S (serial number 42-27339) and MX-W (serial number 42-26387), nicknamed "Miss Behave". Hand... More
Captured Fiat CR42 at RAF Duxford
A captured Italian Fiat CR.42 Falco (RAF serial BT474) of the RAF Air Fighting Development Unit, parked in a dispersal at Duxford, Cambridgeshire (UK). The aircraft was salvaged following a forced landing at Or... More
Captured Me 109F-2 at Duxford 1941
A captured German Messerschmitt Me 109F-2 (RAF serial ES906) in RAF day-fighter camouflage, on the ground at RAF Duxford while being operated by the Air Fighting Development Unit, October 1941. The aircraft had... More
Formation of No.19 Squadron RAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Is in 1938 ove...
Five Supermarine Spitfire Mark Is of No. 19 Squadron, Royal Air Force, based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire (UK), flying in starboard echelon formation led by the Commanding Officer, Squadron Leader H.I. Cozens, in K9794.
Hurricane IIBs 601 Sqn RAF in flight 1941
Six Royal Air Force Hawker Hurricane Mk IIBs of 'B' Flight, No. 601 Squadron RAF based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, flying in starboard echelon formation near Thaxted, Essex (UK).
Messerschmitt Bf 110C captured 1940
A captured German Messerschmitt Me 110 C-5 (W.Nr. 2177) of the reconnaissance unit 4.(F)/14 (5F+CM). This aircraft was shot down by the Red Section of No. 238 Squadron RAF on 21 July 1940 at Goodwood (UK). The ... More
RAF Ju-88 RAF Bassingbourn WWII IWM HU 93020
IWM caption : Junkers Ju 88A-5, HM509, of No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft Circus) Flight based at Collyweston, Northamptonshire, parked in front of the hangars at Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, during the unit's 11th ... More