Poetry Plane 2026
January 30, 2026Poetry Plane 2026 brings together children, communities, and nations in a global act of remembrance.
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Save the Date – More WW1 AHT Chat Sessions
September 30, 2022Scout (Fighter) Development 1914-1915 – Thursday 13th October, 2022 – 1930 (UK) £5 +VAT to learn some interesting stuff and to help keep our aeroplanes flying! Join the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust Pilots JeanMichel Munn, Stu Goldspink, Jonathan Marten-Hale, Rob Gauld Galliers, and John Gilbert together with John Lanham (NZ), and David Bremner (Grandpa’s Scout) […]
Boy! Did We Have Fun!
September 12, 2022On the Saturday night before the Vintage Air Show at Shuttleworth on 4th Sep 22 two iconic WW1 aeroplanes got airborne for a bit of air-to-air photography – the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust’s dark and forbidding Albatros DVa in the black livery of Lt Otto Kissinberth and David Bremner in his grandfather’s Scout. With the […]
Did You Miss It? Find out What Makes the Albatros Tick
February 16, 2022Our chat session about the Albatros is now available to watch at your leisure. Click here to watch
Lt. Francis McNamara VC, Australian Flying Corps 10-19
January 15, 2021Supplement to the London Gazette on 8 June 1917 For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty during an aerial bomb attack upon a hostile construction train, when one of our pilots was forced to land behind the enemy’s lines. Lt. McNamara, observing this pilot’s predicament and the fact that hostile cavalry were approaching, descended […]
Sergeant Thomas Mottershead VC RFC
September 14, 2020For most conspicuous bravery, endurance and skill, when attacked at an altitude of 9,000 feet; the petrol tank was pierced and the machine set on fire. Enveloped in flames, which his Observer, Lt. Gower was unable to subdue, this very gallant soldier succeeded in bringing his aeroplane back to our lines, and though he made a […]
Albatros G-WAHT displays at Stow Maries
September 11, 2020The skies over Essex last Sunday reverberated to the sound of WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust’s Albatros taking to the skies in mock combat with the Trusts Nieuport 17. The Albatros was flown by JeanMichel Munn and the Nieuport by its owner John Gilbert
Sopwith Snipe Control Grip
August 19, 2020This is a Sopwith Snipe control grip and pretty much in line with British grips throughout the 2 wars with two slight differences. Contrary to later Spitfire and Hurricane grips the guns could be fired individually and the firing button with an integrated safety catch came later and most probably for very good reason. The […]
Lieutenant W Leefe Robinson VC RFC
August 18, 2020“For most Conspicuous bravery. He attacked an enemy airship under circumstances of great difficult and danger, and sent it crashing to the ground as a flaming wreck. He had been in the air for more than two hours and had previously attacked another airship during his flight.”London Gazette, 5th September 1916 This VC needs little further explanation […]
Fokker DVII – Update 3-5 Fuel and Oil Tanks
July 10, 2020This was placed behind the engine and inconveniently in front of the pilot directly under the ammunition boxes. This lead to several cases of self-destruction in the hot summer of 18 as the phosphorus ammunition used as tracers/anti balloon ammunition self-ignited burning through the boxes and the tank with a subsequent unwelcome pyrotechnic display. Only […]