Maurice Hammond takes on the restoration of a P-51 Mustang, a US made fighter plane that gave the Allies air superiority over the Luftwaffe in World War II. He finds that the plane has a connection to a famous US airman who flew successful missions from nearby English airfields in World War II.
Paul Vacher finds a Hawker Hurricane in India. How he gets it back to the UK and up in the air over the fields it helped protect in World War II is as dramatic a story as the role the plane played in the Battle of Britain, protecting England against the Nazis.
Painstakingly restoring the Fokker, the type of airplane favored by the Red Baron, the most famous pilot of WWI, takes surgeon Peter Bruggemann on a journey of exploration into the lives of the young men who flew in the dogfights of World War I.
Maurice Hammond and his daughter, Leah, undertake the restoration of an AT-6 Harvard aircraft. At the same time, Leah works on establishing a memorial to the US airmen and RAF pilots who flew from airfields near her home village. See how rebuilding the plane brings World War II history to life.
Rex Ford is restoring a rare Percival Q6. As he traces its story from the 1930's, he learns of the colorful Aussie aircraft designer-builder, Edgar Percival, and finds that this particular plane may have played a role in a significant moment in World War II history!
Paul Bennett is restoring a Stearman, an open cockpit trainer for pilots in World War II. Like WWI planes, the US built Stearman has a fabric covered fusilage and wire supported wings. Literally thousands of pilots trained on these planes for service in WWII. But then what happened to the planes?
The dramatic story of the heaviest prop-driven fighter ever made. Developed just too late for WW2, it was called an aerial anachronism - a piston-engined warplane in a world of jets and missiles. However, it was to come into its own during the Korean and Vietnam wars.
The astonishing tale of a tiny 1930s aircraft capable of 230mph, that smashed records all over the world in the hands of an almost forgotten British hero, Alex Henshaw.
The story of the legendary Vietnam-era helicopter takes a new twist as the Plane Resurrection team take to the air in a pristine war-veteran example, and we learn the astonishing story of an aircraft blown up by its own missiles, whose severely wounded co-pilot went on to found a world-leading charity.
A look at a beautifully restored example of the later, clipped-wing version of the legendary fighterplane flown by Czech refugee pilots in the UK during wartime, featuring long-unseen test and operational footage.
The ugly-duckling aircraft that shunned the limelight - and the daylight. Learn the story of how the aircraft, an initial failure, helped win the war supporting covert operations.
The aircraft that, in a way, started it all in Europe. The team fly one of only two remaining examples of the monoplane built by Louis Bleriot, the pioneering channel-crosser. This elderly aircraft is put gently through its paces for the Plane Resurrection cameras, leaving the ground on one of its ultra-rare outside excursions.