Pilot Officer Harold Penketh died when his Spitfire Mk 1A crashed on a routine training exercise A Spitfire that crashed in Cambridgeshire while on a training mission during World War Two is to be dug ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A restored World War Two Spitfire which was shot down over northern France in 1940 is expected to raise about $3 million for charity when it goes up for auction in London next week.

A RARE Spitfire which lay buried on Calais beach for 40 years is on display in London to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of France and Britain before being auctioned off for charity. The ...

IN September, 1980 the wreckage of a Spitfire aircraft emerged from the sands of a French beach, a unique piece of Southampton history, lost for decades, had been rediscovered. Now this Spitfire, ...

Pilot Officer Harold Penketh died when his Spitfire Mk 1A crashed on a routine training exercise A pilot's headrest and a starter motor are among the first artefacts found by archaeologists looking ...

The wreckage of the Vickers Supermarine Spitfire Mk.1A was recovered in 1980 from a beach at Calais, northern France. It had crash-landed there after it was shot down on May 24, 1940, during the ...