Spitfire - July 12. Coningsby.

P7350 currently wears the livery of No 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron’s L1067 ‘XT-D’, as flown by the Squadron Commander, Squadron Leader ‘Uncle’ George Denholm during the Battle of Britain. On 30 August 1940, whilst operating from Hornchurch, L1067 was hit by return fire during a combat with Me110s, and ‘Uncle George’ was forced to bale out. The inscription ‘Blue Peter’ that XT-D wore under the cockpit referred to the name of a famous, Derby-winning, race horse, after which George Denholm chose to name his aircraft, not the BBC Children’s TV programme, which was yet to be invented!