On a bright Wednesday morning in Biggin Hill, south-east London, Joe Hurst clambers into the cockpit of Spitfire TA805, a Mk ...

The latest Spitfire Mark IX had a 1,720 horsepower engine and was equipped with both 20mm cannons and .50 calibre machine-guns. The fighters provided crucial air support for the D-Day landings and ...

Now Ian Fox has got a full-sized Spitfire in his front garden - along with two more in his shed, plus a US Navy dive bomber. Aviation worker Mr Fox bought the fibreglass replica aircraft off a fellow ...

The Spitfire TR IX, pictured at Ardmore Airport ... originally built at the Castle Bromwich factory in July 1943 as a Mark IX ...