Category: Volunteers

  • Message from America

    One of   the TFC volunteers , JBS,  is   getting some  practice in for Flying Legends aircraft  handling  by helping out at  Chino this week end.  He should  be along  later with a  few  notes .  In the  mean time  he thought we would like a few pictures including one of an old  friend, I think…

  • P 40B action

    With the TFC engineers fully occupied on the current fleet, the Sunday TFC volunteer team under Martins guidance have started to prepare the P 40B for the export team. Many thanks to Harry and Rob for the photos. [slideshow_deploy id=’2592′]

  • February 9th update

    Looking around the  hangar and  the winter maintenance continues, if you think you  might like to  volunteer with the  Fighter Collection we  will have an announcement of interest  soon: Volunteers cleaning Sea Fury parts   Wildcat Engine   Gladiator Engine   Sea Fury Spitfire Mk 1

  • TFC Volunteers

    We’ve  been  following the engineers work during the last week.  Today it is the  turn of  the  volunteers. So  first thing a  meeting to decide on a plan of  action in a rather  chilly  hangar as the heating was on strike:   Next off to clean the Hellcat and Spitfire which had been covered with…

  • May 2013 Airshow – the video

    Lots of  fantastic pictures on all the aircraft  forums with excellent pictures of our aircraft – we thought you might enjoy a reminder about those  who  were up and about  extremely early on Sunday  morning (and before) to make sure  it was a great experience:    

  • 25th March Aicraft News Update

    On a somewhat Arctic Sunday a few volunteers and TFC staff were in at Hangar number 2, at the same time we were able to catch up on the latest news on aircraft in the hangar from Martin. First is that the Hawk successfully completed an air test in preparation for a flight to La…

  • Another March update

      A busy week with Hawk engine runs  yesterday and now Wildcat being weighed. Else where in the hangar work has commenced on the Mk XIV annual checks:   Here are some of  our  new  recruits  hard at work:

  • Friends of TFC memberships and renewals

    Our long standing team who process memberships and renewals are under the weather and off sick at the moment so some admin tasks are taking a bit longer than usual to process. We wish them a speedy recovery and apologise for any delays. We have a new system due to start this month for memberships…

  • Carbon Cub In A Minute

    Something a bit different from the engineers and volunteers at TFC, more on this story later. Sequence 01 1 from chris g on Vimeo.