Vintage News - Aircraft preservation news under a new heading, with Michael Oakey
"Missing, believed killed" - in April last year an aviation archaeologist who excavated a wartime Spitfire crash site was arrested. Roy Nesbit investigates
By day and by night - Philip Jarrett describes the evolution of the Hawker Hart and Hind
Meteor night fighter - Ray Williams continues his account of the Meteor night-fighter with the testing and production of the NF.11 and its entry into RAF service
Great moments in aviation - The record flight of the Fairey Long Range Monoplane to South Africa in 1933
Stirling Work - Mike Pitchers concludes his recollections of his time as a second pilot flying Short Stirling V transports with the post-war RAF
Crosswind - Asides and broadsides from John Maynard
Military personal album - Avro Lancasters and Lincolns photographed by Mike Hooks in 1956-67
Atlantic mail pioneers - Hans Amtmann recounts Germany's innovative inter-war transatlantic airmail operations
Tailless tales from Coventry - Barry Jones describes the evolution and testing of the Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 flying wings and their glider forebear, the A.W.52G
Fathers of world aviation - Ken Aitken caricatures helicopter pioneer Igor Sikorsky
Handle With Care - Howard Levy describes Halberstadt CL IV replica which is a handful to fly
Skywriters - More readers' letters A lifetime aloft Air Commodore "Taffy" Powell opens a four-part account of his career as an airline and RAF pilot, beginning with his formative years as a 58 Sqn Virginia pilot
Preservation profile - Xavier Meal recounts the history of French Mustang A68-198/F-AZIE
Across the ether - Stephen Pope opens a series on the arcane world of wartime radio and radar equipment used by the RAF
Airshows Calender - First of our monthly guides to UK events
Armchair aviation - Melvyn Hiscock reviews more books and videos
Speedbird Service - Brian Sullivan recalls trainingas a steward with BOAC in 1945-46
Competition - This month's Diversions page features the chance to win free tickets to the International Air Tattoo "Victory Airshow" at Fairford in July


Also included with this iss is a 16-page supplement entitled "Vintage News"

Front Cover - Maurice and Peter Bayliss's splendidly-restored two-seat Spitfire trainer MJ627/G-BMSB was photographed exclusively for Aeroplane by RICHARD PAVER on February 25. The aircraft is featured in this month's Vintage News supplement, free with this issue