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Gallery: Flying back in time with special aircraft

By Reporter
1993: Two bi-planes taking part in the Scottish Wings and Wheels Extravaganza soar with the Grampians in the distance. Aberdeen-born surgeon, Neil Geddes, Bridge of Weir, flew the 7/8-scale replica of an SE5A (bottom), which he built himself.
1993: Two bi-planes taking part in the Scottish Wings and Wheels Extravaganza soar with the Grampians in the distance. Aberdeen-born surgeon, Neil Geddes, Bridge of Weir, flew the 7/8-scale replica of an SE5A (bottom), which he built himself.

We’ve taken a look back through our archives and dug up these images of the varied aircraft that have visited the North-east.

1930s: A Hawker Hector, which was used to pick up and deliver messages.
1930s: Overhead Torry with Aberdeen Harbour in the background, an RAF Hawker Hind poses for an in-flight study while on a sortie from Dyce.
1996: Pilot Clive Davidson with the North American T6 Harvard training plane, which was based at Aberdeen Flying Club.
1945: Among the trees at Hazlehead RAF, ground personnel assemble a Spitfire, which was to be one of the attractions of Aberdeen’s Thanksgiving Week.
1942: RAF Bristol Beaufighters flying over Dyce in 1942.
1991: Emergency services were on full alert today when a German military aircraft, a ND16 Transall, was forced to land in Aberdeen on one engine after mechanical problems.
1976: A 1946 vintage de Havilland Mosquito on the runway after landing at Banff Airfield.
1992: German pilots Soenke Claussen, left, and Volker Stegemann with their Russian Antonov 2 bi-plane in Aberdeen, en route to Venezuela
1964: A Fairey Gannet aircraft, part of Britain’s Early Warning System, lands on the aircraft carrier Ark Royal with three helicopters standing by.
1936: A 1936 Junkers JU-52 aeroplane on the tarmac at Aberdeen Airport after a journey from Newcastle.
1952: Tiger Moth takes off giving a cadet a flip – a quick tour or pleasure trip – during the Air Training Corps Summer Camp at Dyce.
1940: The Norwegian Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.11 (sometimes known as the Høver M.F.11 after its designer) was a three-seat, single-engine biplane used for maritime reconnaissance pre-World War 2. Here it is in Stonehaven in May 1940 after landing with airmen aboard who evaded Luftwaffe planes on the trip across the North Sea.
1964: A Chipmunk of Aberdeen University Air Squadron is put through the paces in practice for the Scone Trophy contest at Luchars, in which Aberdeen student pilots were to compete against teams from the other Scottish universities.
1993: Two bi-planes taking part in the Scottish Wings and Wheels Extravaganza soar with the Grampians in the distance. Aberdeen-born surgeon, Neil Geddes, Bridge of Weir, flew the 7/8-scale replica of an SE5A (bottom), which he built himself.

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