AFFORDABLE WARBIRDS - The FLYER Show - 21st May 2026

Flyer Magazine · May 21, 2026 · 1h 1m · transcript

So what’s a warbird? Any aircraft with a military purpose at some point in its life, is what we’ve gone for. But not the £MultiMillion exotica like Spitfires and Hurricanes, but something an ordinary pilot could own outright or have a share.

So what have we chosen?

Ian has plumped for the Chipmunk, of course, because the subject is inspired by this week’s International Gathering of Chipminks at Halfpenny Green (Wolverhampton) which will celebrate the aircraft’s first flight 80 years ago.

Take one Piper Cub J34, paint it drab green rather than bright yellow and you have the L4, an aerial…