Name: Warplane Workshop
Released: 2022-11-03T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary · Educational

Skilled engineers and pilots are on a mission to return historic warplanes to the air. Crafting new parts by hand, rebuilding broken wings and breathing life back into long-silent engines, these men and women are dedicated to making history fly.

2022 · 46m

EPISODE 3

Holland's Forgotten Few

Dutch pilots fought Hitler's Luftwaffe downing hundreds of aircraft; many joined the RAF but their outdated fighter vanishes; a family of restorers is recreating the Fokker D.XXI featuring rare color footage from a Dutch pilot.
EPISODE 4

The Plane from Spain

Pilot Taff Smith rescues the wreckage of a Bucker Jungmeister, a relic from Franco's fascist air force; rebuilding it requires long hours and big bills and its resurrection could spark controversy in Spain.
EPISODE 5

Churchill's First Seaplane

Join a team attempting to refurbish the Waterbird, Britain's first seaplane.
EPISODE 6

MI6's Spy in the Sky

A 1930s Lockheed airliner used by MI6 to spy on pre-war Germany is restored to flight by engineer Richard Grace and his team. The restoration reveals tell-tale signs of the plane's top-secret past.
EPISODE 4

Series 2 Episode 4

Engineers fight to prepare a squadron of 10 Spitfires for Britain's biggest warbird air display in years. Technical boss Martin Espin and his team must fault-find and repair against the clock.
EPISODE 5

Series 2 Episode 5

Eighty years after it crashed in flames during the Battle of Britain, a rare Spitfire is reconstructed from wreckage dug from the soil of the South Downs. The mission for modern engineers at the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar is to make P9372 fly again.