Warplane Workshop

A C-47 transport plane, damaged by anti-aircraft fire while dropping British paratroopers in 1944, returns to the ill-fated Arnhem landings. The iconic `Drag 'em Oot's' pilots and crew face the challenge of keeping her flying to drop parachutists.

Pilot and engineer Richard Grace stages a major air show at the airfield where he has restored dozens of rare war birds, but the crowds are unaware that he is fighting a personal battle for survival against a terminal illness.

Follows the story of a group of Scottish pensioners who spent 25 years building a replica First World War biplane. The original Sophie the Sopwith Strutter made history by becoming the first plane to land on Britain's prototype aircraft carrier.

The makeover of an iconic Spitfire becomes unexpectedly controversial. Lady Ellen III was one of dozens of RAF fighters given to the US Army Air Corps during World War II and the Spitfire's wartime pilot was a celebrated US civil rights activist.

On an airstrip in Kent, engineer Nicky Wood and her team rebuild an RAF Tiger Moth biplane, one of 8000 that played an unsung role in winning WWII. As trainers, they gave tens of thousands of allied airmen the skills to fly and fight.