Northants Flyers

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Tiger Moth, No. 6 Elementary Flying Training School, Sywell

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Douglas A-26 C Invader A-26C-25-DT serial no. 43-22626 'Queen of Spades' arrived at Harrington on 14th March 1945 and assigned to No 801 (Provisional) Bomb Group, 856th Bomb Squadron (formerly 36th Sqn).

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Heller 1/72 Messerschmitt Bf 109F (80232)

No. 1426 Enemy Aircraft Flight, Collyweston, 12 April 1943 – January 1945. Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4/B was piloted by Oswald Fischer of 10/JG 26 who was shot down near Beachy Head by anti-aircraft fire while attacking a Royal Navy vessel in May 1942. It seems that the aircraft was kept until a serviceable engine or cylinder block could be acquired from a downed aircraft in the Middle East. In August of 1943, the aircraft was delivered to No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft Flight). A F/Lt R.F. Forbes flew the aircraft at RAF Collyweston on 24 October, while it was still in Luftwaffe markings. Shortly after that, it was painted in RAF colours and given the serial NN644, keeping the white 11 and bomb markings. RAF pilots had similar ground handling problems with the 109 as did Luftwaffe pilots. In July of 1944, the port wing and aileron where damaged when an RAF pilot ground looped it on landing at RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire. The Messerschmitt passed to the Enemy Aircraft Flight at Tangmere in January of 1945 and went into storage at No. 47 MU at RAF Sealand in November of that year. It was later scrapped.

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High Planes Models 1/72 Douglas DB-7 Havoc 1 "Turbinlite" (72040)
No 1453 Turbinlite Flight, operated from RAF Wittering from July 1941. These flights were equipped with Havocs and Bostons, modified to carry a 2,700 million candela searchlight in the nose with AI radar; the batteries for it carried in the bomb bay.

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#30 Airfix 1/72 Eighth Air Force: Boeing B-17G & Bomber Re-supply Set (A12010)

42-38206 “Thundermug”, 364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group, RAF Chelveston, 1 March to 12 December 1944, when it was battle damaged over Mersberg. It force landed in Allied occupied territory and was scrapped.

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Bristol Blenheim Mk I, No 13 Operational Training Unit, RAF Hinton-In-The-Hedges, 27 November 1940 until 23 August 1942.

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Wellington X LP826 of No 85 Operational Training Unit, Husbands Bosworth, crashed at Althorp on 24/9/44.

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Hawker Demon, No 23 Squadron used this aircraft at RAF Wittering between 16/05/38 and 01/06/40.

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Airfix 1/72 Handley Page Victor B.Mk2 (A12008) RAF Wittering, April 1963

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Matchbox 1/72 Handley Page Victor B.Mk2.R. (PK-551) No. 139 Sqn, RAF Wittering, 1964.

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Italeri 1/72 Lockheed P-38J Lightning (032) Kingscliffe 1943

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Airfix 1/72 de Havilland Beaver (03017) Chelveston 1960

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Airfix 1/72 Hawker Hart (1398) K5861 ‘25’ of No 7 Flying Training School, RAF Peterborough (Westwood), 1940.

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Airfix 1/72 Lockheed Hudson Mk. I (05034)
‘A’ Flight, Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment (AFEE), RAF Chelveston, 5 May 1942 - September 1942.

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Miles Master III W8454 of No 26 (Signals) Group, SDU from 5 PAFU. Hinton-In-The-Hedges. 15 April 1943 – 30 July 1944.