A look at the iconic combat aircraft, 90 years on from its first flight, and why it was the people's plane.

The iconic Spitfire marks the 90th anniversary of its first flight today (March 5).

Our tribute to a pilot's battle against the elements over the English Channel in 1940. An RAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk1 pilot is to be lost at sea as the weather closes in. Airmen lost in this way was ...

BBC Breakfast viewers were amazed as 105-year-old WW2 Mosquito pilot Colin Bell celebrated his birthday on the show,.

The Supermarine Spitfire, a British fighter that fought in the second world war, can claim to be the most significant combat aircraft in history. It was a brilliant design, a formidable combination of ...

Ronald David Scott was born on October 20, 1917, to a Scottish father, Roy Douglas Scott (a Boer War veteran and a dragoon in World War I and one of the first referees in Argentine rugby), and an ...

LONDON — Mary Ellis, a pioneering aviator and one of Britain’s last surviving World War II female pilots, who overcame public disapproval to fly hundreds of Spitfires and heavy bombers to the front ...