Icon of the Battle of Britain and the pivotal events of 1940 following the occupation of Europe and threat of invasion of Britain, this simple toy wooden Spitfire from the 1940s is comfortably and ...

A man has supersized his childhood hobby of making model Airfix kits by buying a full size Spitfire - that he keeps in his back garden. Aviation worker Ian Fox, 55, bought the fibreglass replica ...

his model Spitfire – with his signature shamrock logo under the cockpit window – was the biggest-selling toy among UK schoolboys for Christmas 1941. Now the story of his short life of derring ...