Saturday began very grey and overcast. A number of the Real Aeroplane Company pilots were checked-out on Rob Fleming's newly acquired Yak 18 which was making its first public appearances since arriving at the airfield a week or two earlier.

(Top) DH84 Dragon and DH89 Dragon Rapide at the Sunday fly-in (John Heard)
(Inset) BBMF's Mk V Spitfire AB910 in classic pose (Kevin Moseley)

(BELOW) The Yak 18 on one of many checkout flights during Saturday morning - memories of the old Breighton Nanchang's come flooding back. (Mick Emmett)

The BBMF fighters called in enroute to their appearance at the Southport airshow with 'Baby Spit' AB910, a Mark Vb built at Castle Bromwich in 1941 wearing No 303 (Kosciuszko) Squadron markings circa 1942, and Hawker Hurricane Mk IIc LF363 sporting the Battle of Britain markings of a 17 Squadron machine. The first flypast was paired (Below - Kevin Moseley) with subsequent spirited passes being made individually.

(ABOVE) Hurricane's curving pass around the hangars was very reminiscent of Breighton's warbird days (Stephen Carr)

(Below) The amazing Soko P2 Kraguj was the next notable attendee. The former Yugoslavian single-seat light ground-attack aircraft flew a number of noisy passes alongside the resident Yak 52 before departing. (both Steve Blee)

(ABOVE) 2434 Air Cadet Squadron strike up a tune or two for the diners (Tom Wray)

(BELOW) Alouette III calls in for fuel while the Magister flies past (Kevin Moseley)

(BELOW) Highly polished Luscombe Silvaire (Steve Blee)

(ABOVE) The Auster Club had been invited along to the fly-in and they didn't disappoint, one of the most attractive being this Royal Australian Navy schemed Auster J5 from Wickenby (Andy Wood)

Pure nostalgia -
(ABOVE) The T-6 (Mick Emmett) and (BELOW) The DH84 (Phil Hardaker)

(BELOW) Sunday served up clear as glass skies although the crosswind was still there. Despite this the home team put up a creditable 3-ship (Steve Blee)

(ABOVE) The Second World War runway and T2 hangar clearly visible from the cockpit of one of our resident Auster's. (BELOW) On finals at the end of the Auster sortie (both Stephen Carr)

(ABOVE) Even on Sunday the crosswind exceeded safe limits for the Arrow Active so the venerable aircraft was taxied instead (Neil Fletcher)

(BELOW) The Swift having its Pobjoy run-up - again, the crosswind meant that this lovely aeroplane stayed on the ground - no doubt to the relief of Andy and JJ who were holding the tail down! (John Heard)

(ABOVE) A Beagle Husky, successor to the Auster D5 (Steve Blee)

(BELOW) Chief Pilot Alan doing his pre-flight checks on the Yak (Tom Wray)

(BELOW) The Ryan PT-22 rattles by on one of many sorties throughout the weekend (Kevin Moseley)

(ABOVE) The 'Bumble Bee' Tipsy Nipper in fine fettle (Mick Emmett)

(ABOVE) Two very colourful Bucker Jungmann biplane visitors on Sunday afternoon taking the total of Bucker types on the airfield to half a dozen. (John Heard)

(BELOW) Nice to see Austin Mercer's Jungmeister out and about again - doesn't look like Austin in the driving seat though! (Tom Wray)

(BELOW) The undoubted stars of Sunday were the DeHavilland DH84 Dragon and the DH89 Dragon Rapide (John Heard & Steve Blee respectively)

(ABOVE and BELOW) Taxying to their parking spaces (John Heard)

(BELOW) Very slick looking gloss-black Chipmunk with low-viz RAF roundals! Although living at the wrong side of the Pennines these days the aircraft was formerly based at RAF Church Fenton, RAF Linton-on-Ouse and RAF Leeming during military service. Welcome home WG474! (Steve Blee)

(ABOVE) So then, what have you come as?! (Peter Lamb)

(BELOW) Ahhhhhh - DeHavilland! Tiger Moth taxying out.

(ABOVE) The sun sets on another Breighton fly-in (Stephen Carr)

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