-Interestingly, some Spitfire pilots even modified their aircraft to deliver beer to troops after D-Day. Today, only about 50 Spitfires remain airworthy, including one owned by actor Brad Pitt.

The engine in the Supermarine Spitfire was a Rolls-Royce Merlin that eventually went into America's P-51 Mustang, as well. It had a lot of power.

A Second World War Spitfire fighter plane has crashed in a field in Kent. The plane, owned by Fly A Spitfire, went down "in the vicinity of Hythe on 03/05/2025 (Saturday)", the company said in a ...

THIS is the shocking moment a Spitfire crash landed in a field while “practising for a VE Day event”. The 82-year-old World War II fighter aircraft made the emergency landing in a farme… ...

A Spitfire plane carrying a pilot and one passenger has crash-landed on a field in Kent. The World War Two plane was forced to make an emergency landing on a field near Lower Wall Road in West ...

The Spitfire aircraft involved in the close-call incident is thought to be a two-seat T9 trainer variant, which was originally a Mark IXc version built in 1943.

Staycationers say a Spitfire plane misfired above a caravan park, lost altitude and narrowly missed trees moments before crash landing in a field.

He explained the Spitfire had been a ‘kit plane’ ordered from America and a team of three to four people had built it. “Between us we had the skills to build the plane,” he said.

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 ...