Warplane Workshop

A Spitfire TE517 was discovered as an unlikely plaything in a playground. Engineers at Biggin Hill are determined to return her to the air and restore her to her original markings as a member of one of the RAF's legendary Free Czech squadrons.

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.

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.

Engineers from the charity Navy Wings are fighting to return a rare example of the Royal Navy's last biplane to the sky. At the same time, 250 miles away, another team are determined to make the US Navy's last biplane fly again.

Follows a Spitfire that made history in 1944 by becoming the first Allied plane to land in liberated France. MK912 is rebuilt by engineers at Biggin Hill, and it's a tense mission for the test pilot assigned to conduct its first flight.

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.