Visiting Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar
Spitfires are tightly associated with Biggin Hill. No longer a Royal Air Force base, there are still Spitfires at the airport in the Spitfire Factory. Spitfires, and quite a few other types as well.
Anyone can book a tour of the hangar which is how these pictures were taken. The guides on both my visits were extraordinarily knowledgeable about the Battle of Britain and the individual aircraft in their fleet.
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Visiting Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar
A tour of the Spitfire Factory at Biggin Hill which is full of vintage aircraft in flying condition with others under restoration.
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A visit to the RAF Memorial Chapel at the former RAF Biggin Hill and then the Spitfire Factory to see the aircraft up close.
Biggin Hill RAF Chapel Stained Glass
The RAF Memorial Chapel has twelve stained glass windows in the main chapel remembering the Battle of Britain.
Maintenance Hangar
Engines
Storage Hangar
Spitfire T.9 TE308
Spitfire Mk IX MA764
Spitfire Mk IX TE517
Spitfire Mk Ia P9372
Messerschmitt Bf 109 E1
Curtiss P40 Warhawk 47092
Hurricane Mx X AE977
Spitfire Mk XVIe TE184
Spitfire T.9 MJ639
Spanish Hispano Buchon Painted as a Messerschmitt Bf 109
By stunning good luck my tour coincided with the arrival of a Buchon, painted to look like a wartime German Messerschmitt Bf 109. A new addition to the collection, the aircraft was built in Spain after World War Two and subsequently used in the 1969 Battle of Britain film.
