Unusual formation over Lincoln

These 3 flew over Lincoln this afternoon, they are :

Hispano HA-112 MIL (Buchon) G-AWHE


This former Spain Air Force Buchon registration C.4K-31. Registered as N109ME, in 1968 was loaned to Duxford, painted as "red 8" and starred in movie Battle of Britain. After return to America visited many airshows and in 1981 was grounded. After 23 years of restoration flew again in 2004 and in 2008 returned after 40 years to Duxford. In England was registered G-AWHE and since 2010 is painted as Bf-109F of Major Erich Gerlitz, Gruppenkommandeur of III/JG53 "Pik-As" operated in July 1942 from Quotaifiya airfield in Egypt.

North American TB-25N Mitchell (PH-XXV / 232511 / N5-149), "Sarinah", Duke of Brabant Air Force.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force Historical Flight Foundation, in Dutch "Stichting Koninklijke Luchtmacht Historische Vlucht" (SKHV), was first started in 1969 as an aero club (Stichting Vliegsport Gilze-Rijen) by a group of former Air Force and Navy fighter pilots. The commander of the Gilze-Rijen Air Base at that time supported the renovation of a small hangar in which a Harvard and a Piper Super Cub were restored. The initial aim of this aero club was to provide private pilots with the possibility of advanced flying training. In the following years several historical aircraft were added to the fleet after having been carefully restored to an airworthy condition. From 1976 onwards the club has dedicated itself to the restoration and the maintenance of propeller-driven aircraft formerly used by the Royal Netherlands Air Force and Navy. In 1998 the Stichting Vliegsport Gilze-Rijen and the Dutch Spitfire Flight merged to form the Royal Netherlands Air Force Historical Flight (SKHV) thereby bringing the only airworthy Dutch Spitfire and a Beaver into the collection. On September 24th 2004, during the 35th anniversary, the merge of the Duke of Brabant Air Force (DBAF) and the SKHV was announced. Since then the DBAF flag-ship, the B-25 Mitchell, has been part of the SKHV fleet. During the past few decades the SKHV has grown into a leading aircraft museum with a unique collection of airworthy historical military propeller-driven aircraft.

Mk XVIII Spitfire

SM845 is an early production Mk XVIII Spitfire built at Chattis Hill in the Spring of 1945 and delivered to 39MU on 30 May 1945. In December of 1945 the aircraft went to 46MU before being shipped to Karachi, arriving 11 February 1946 and being received into South East Asia Air Command on 28 February 1946.  The aircraft was transferred to the Indian Air Force on 31 December 1947 and issued with Serial No. HS687. It served in the Indian Air Force until the late 1950’s before being used as a decoy at Kalaikunda air base near Calcutta in the 1970’s. Subsequently acquired by Historic Flying Limited and restored, SM845 registered as G-BUOS made its first flight from Audley End on 7 July 2000. Following a landing accident, SM845 returned to the UK where it was rebuilt to flying status by Historic Flying. It flew again on the 17th December 2013 in a new silver scheme depicting a Spitfire XVIII of 28 Squadron, Hong Kong, during July 1950.