Vintage aircraft fly in to HolbeachSt John airfield
Fifty aircraft flew from all over the country to Holbeach St John airfield on Saturday for the second of several special events Fenland Aero Club has planned for this summer.
The Vintage Aircraft Club of Great Britain organised the event and 30 of its own members brought their classic aeroplanes from as far afield as Shropshire, Worcestershire, Hampshire and Norfolk. The rarest, a 1940 Cessna C-165 Airmaster in an all-red paint scheme, flew in from Liverpool.
Oldest of the classic aeroplanes in the park was an immaculate green and gold De Havilland DH87B Hornet Moth, registration G-ADMT. Built in 1936, this aircraft is based at Felthorpe airfield in Norfolk.
It was accompanied by another Felthorpe classic, a 1941 De Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth, G-ANFL, resplendent in a blue and silver colour scheme.
In stark contrast to these brightly-painted civilian aircraft, was a Nord 1002 Pingouin, decked out in the camouflage and markings of a Second World War German Luftwaffe aeroplane.
Built in 1945, this veteran star of several war films was, at one time, owned by local farmer and well-known display pilot, the late Lindsay Walton and is now based at Furze Farm airstrip, west of Peterborough.
