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Flying Legends is a two-day airshow in England, originally held in July every year. The airshow features only warbird and vintage aircraft, such as the Supermarine Spitfire, North American P-51 Mustang and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Sally B. It is run by The Fighter Collection, based at Duxford Aerodrome, Cambridgeshire, formerly RAF Duxford.
Hurricanes and Spitfires of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at the Duxford Air Show, May 2007. Duxford remains an active airfield (IATA: QFO, ICAO: EGSU) and maintains two parallel runways; an unpaved 880 m (2,890 ft) grass strip, and a concrete runway with a length of 1,503 m (4,931 ft), [30] both oriented at 060/240-degrees. [31]
The 2013 airshow saw the celebration of the event's 20th anniversary. [2] Following the cancellation of the airshows in 2020, 2021 & 2022, the event moved from its long-standing former home at Duxford Aerodrome to RAF Church Fenton in North Yorkshire for July 2023.
August 16 — A pilot was killed when his Fouga Magister crashed into the Mediterranean sea during an airshow in Le Lavandou, southern France. [1]July 12 — A military pilot was killed when his M-346 Bielik crashed into the ground during rehearsal for the Gdynia Naval Aviation Brigade's 30th Anniversary event in Gdynia, Poland.
Duxford Aerodrome was the home of Douglas Bader's Big Wing during that battle. Duxford airfield later became a fighter airfield for the United States Army Air Forces operating P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft. In 1972 the Ministry of Defence began to house historically important aircraft in the hangars, which in 1977 became the Imperial War Museum ...
The deadliest aviation accident of 2025 thus far is the mid-air collision on 29 January between a Bombardier CRJ700 operating as American Airlines Flight 5342 and a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter above the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. All 64 people on board the Bombardier CRJ700 and 3 ...
June 1 – Air Show Colorado 1997 (Broomfield, Colorado) – Ret. Colonel "Smiling Jack" Jack M. Rosamond was killed when he lost control of his restored F-86 Sabre Jet during an acrobatic loop at the (then known as) Jefferson County Airport. Unseasonably high temperatures combined with the natural high elevation (5,673 ft) of the airport was ...
In Europe, one of the best-known warbird airshows is the annual Flying Legends arranged in Imperial War Museum Duxford in UK. La Ferté-Alais air show in France collects warbirds annually, too. Warbirds fly also in most of the Shuttleworth Collection flying days in UK every summer.