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Nelson Bomber Command veteran John Beeching got a special surprise when a World War II Rolls Royce Merlin was fired up at his retirement village to mark his 101st birthday in October. Beeching had flown flew radar equipped NF versions of the merlin-powered Mosquito with 169 squadron.

Iwuy'stoire, the historical association in the French village of Iwuy in Northern France recently paid to the crews of two aircraft lost in raids in June 1944, including the Betley crew of 75 (NZ) Sq. The service was attended by families of four of the two crew, including three New Zealanders.

As the RAF’s Red Arrows marks its 60th display season, the Royal Mail has is honouring their contribution to Britain's aviation history. Based for many years at RAF Scampton, with its own rich Bomber Command heritage, the display team demonstrates the same pursuit of excellence as the forebears who served in WWII.

Earlier this year the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincolnshire welcomed its 500,000th visitor. The IBCC opened in 2018 and holds the largest free to access digital heritage collection on Bomber Command in the world. It contains thousands of first-hand historical accounts, photographs and documents from all sides of the war.

In a new documentary, Guy Martin helps to recover a crashed World War II Lancaster bomber, and the remains of its missing crew members, from the depths of a Dutch lake, where it has been submerged for 80 years.

The legendary artist and illustrator who created some of the most iconic images of model aircraft kits, has passed away. Roy Cross captured the imagination of generations of young boys as the principal artist for Airfix during the model kits’ heyday in the 1960s and 1970s.