The future of the Spitfire Museum is secure after the site's new owners gifted its freehold to the attraction. The museum is at the historic RAF airfield at the former Manston Airport, which closed in ...

A valuable Spitfire has been lost to the nation after an "ill-conceived" deal by the RAF Museum to exchange it for the recovery of another aircraft that it is unlikely to ever receive, it has been ...

A look at the iconic combat aircraft, 90 years on from its first flight, and why it was the people's plane.

The job of rebuilding the Spitfire destined to hang in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum is proving more complicated than was thought when the project began almost two years ago. For a start, virtually all ...

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Passers-by were in for a treat if they ventured into the city centre one day in 1985 – especially if they were an aviation enthusiast. But they would have needed to have been up before dawn to witness ...

Permit me to correct a few errors in the write-up about the Aviation Museum in the Times Showtime of Friday, August 1. First of all, the photograph illustrated on the left facing the page and below is ...

Museum visitors will again be given the chance to experience being a WWII fighter pilot by using a Spitfire simulator. The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Hanley launched the Spitfire Simulator on ...

A restored Supermarine Spitfire will be flying over Hamilton in the next two or three years. The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWHM) has announced it will be restoring the Spitfire, now ...

The aircraft’s official unveiling in a 3,800 sq ft extension to the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery on Wednesday, being attended by the great-nephew of the Spitfire’s designer Reginald Mitchell, ...

Ken Wills, centre, with volunteers John Knott, left and Gerry Abrahams, are pictured in front of the museum's Spitfire The future of the Spitfire Museum is secure after the site's new owners gifted ...