Spitfire crashes in Kent field hours before VE Day celebrations and fly-past. A historic Spitfire was seen circling "for a couple of minutes" in West Hythe, Kent, ...

Residents at a care home have created a striking Spitfire tribute out of poppies to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two.

Work has begun to dig up a rare Mark II Spitfire just two days before the 73rd anniversary of the day it crashed. Archaeologists began unearthing the aeroplane near Weston-super-Mare on the 75th ...

A Spitfire fighter plane has crash-landed in a field in Kent. The historic aircraft made the emergency landing in Woodchurch, Ashford, at about 09:50 BST, according to Kent Police. The pilot was ...

LONDON (AP) — A World War II-era Spitfire fighter plane crashed near a British air force base in eastern England on Saturday, killing the pilot, the U.K. defense ministry said. The ministry c… ...

A horrified eyewitness has recalled the terrifying moment a Spitfire crashed into a farmer's field just hours before VE Day celebrations. A historic Spitfire was seen circling "for a couple of ...

Work begins on digging up a rare Mark II Spitfire from a field in Somerset, almost 73 years since it crashed.

It will include an act of remembrance in front of the Spitfire tribute, a bugler from The Rifles, followed by the lighting of 80 tea lights by young people, and a sunset ceremony to round off the day.