Date: 15th April 2026
Estimated Flight Time: 1hr 05mins
Probable Formation Element : Texan 2
 
The dawn chorus wakes you up and you realise you are about to do something that very few people will have done since the Second World War. During World War 2, the West County and Bristol were subject to attacks by the Luftwaffe, ports, towns and airfields all in the firing line! You are about to undertake a standing patrol of 1 hour  over England Green and pleasant lands in a Spitfire! Not just any Spitfire but K5054. Few people have had the privilege of flying around the Welsh and Cornish coastline in any aircraft yet alone this beauty. Taking off from the old RAF St Athan, which during the war was a centre of maintenance for these iconic fighters but up and over Cardiff and the Severn Bridge, on route down the Cornish coastline.  You will be blown away by the performance of this 90-year-old design and get chance to turn her upside down over the River Severn. The play area of many fighter pilots patrolling the West of England. As your climbing up over Wales, and you’re soaking up the sheer beauty of the countryside below, you will hear an RAF Texan 2 trainer call up to request to join you in formation!
The day has just got better. Not only are you in the best seat ever, in the best fighter ever! You are now in close formation with one of the RAFs elite pilots and trainer aircraft.  Soak up the view that not people experience before the Texan 2 breaks away and you head on to your destination of the old RAF St Mawgan, a Key Coastal command base during WW2, defending the western approaches.   Next door is the old RAF St Eval which was home to Spitfire squadrons from the Battel of Britain onwards.
As you head down the rugged Cornish coast, over tin mines, shipwrecks and historic fishing villages, you will be enthralled by the incredible vista.
One last chance to have a fly of this beauty and cement your love affair with this incredible piece of British Engineering!
Time to put the wheels down and gracefully approach into land, flaps down and 85 mph over the hedge! Time to open the cockpit after landing and smell the engine, then listen to her gently tick, tick, tick as she cools down. Time to rest and reflect on the days emotional flight.