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WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust’s black Albatros in the livery of Otto Kissneberth’s with is its enormous Edelweiss coming back to life at Shuttleworth.

Exciting times for the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust as the Albatros DVa project nears reality. Although Jean Michel Munn correctly maintains that looks were not everything back in the day when comparing the DVa with the SE5a, in these more peasceful times it certainly looks the part.

STOP, STOP PRESS – A FURTHER CHANGE. The WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust’s new Albatros NOW arrives at Old Warden on Wed 19th Sep at 1000. John Munn continues discussing the relative merits of the DVa against the SEa

Looks over performance. The DVa looks the part but was it really?

In a series of blogs to presage the arrival of the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust’s new Albatros DVa, Jean Michel Munn who flies both makes a comparison of the two aircrafts’ looks and performance.

Sean Feast’s second article on the SE5a and one of its World War One Proponents. The WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust needs your help to maintain its fleet of aircraft set to return to 4 by 2019 – BE2, DVa, SE5a and DVII. Why not get closer to the action, meet the pilots, enjoy our Newsletter, and have a one free visit to Stow Maries per year to witness an air display (wether permitting. Become a Patron of the WW1 AHT by clicking on the link below!

An SE5a should be joining the WW1 Aviation Heritagee Trust in 2018. Well known Aviation Historian Sean Feast will be writing a series of articles on the merits of the SE5a as the original pilots saw it. Join our Journey to keep the aviation legacy of WW1 alive and become a Patron of WW1 AHT. The SE5a was the aircraft of choice for many RFC pilots, including four recipients of the Victoria Cross: Major Mick Mannock VC, DSO**, MC* (73 victories); Major James McCudden VC, DSO*, MC*, MM (57 victories); Captain Anthony Beauchamp-Proctor VC, DSO, MC* DFC (54 victories); and Captain Albert Ball VC, DSO**, MC (44 victories).

With your help a magnificent Albatros DVa will be on its way back to England this summer painted in black with a huge Edelweiss on the fuselage replacing the aircraft that force-landed on its way back from the Somme The decision on the paint scheme had to be made early as the aircraft is in the process of being built and we will shortly have some pictures of the build as it proceeds apace. However, The Trust has undertaken to assist with the costs of bring it to UK and reassembling it. We need YOUR Help to do so.

Jean Michel Munn on flying the Albatros DVa – With Your Help He will be Flying it again in 2018!
The Albatros DVa has got to be one of the most beautiful and potent looking WW1 aircraft of either side. If looks could kill … well she certainly would have… but what is she really like to fly?

Help us Keep the Nieuport 17 flying by becoming a Patron of WW1 AHT You will receive an annual membership card with a different aircraft on the card each year. A Quarterly Newsletter on the Trust’s progress and the satisfaction of contributing to it. An annual meeting at Stow Maries for PoWs with the pilots with flying if the weather permits or fly missions on the rocking nacelle if it does not (or both!).