A museum in a seaside resort is extending to tell the story of pioneering aviator Amy Johnson.
The Spitfire Visitor Centre Hangar 42 at Blackpool Airport said it needed more space to tell the story of the trailblazing pilot, who was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in 1930.
Ms Johnson took off from Blackpool Airport in January 1941 to deliver an RAF aircraft to Kidlington airbase in Oxfordshire but her plane ditched in the Thames Estuary four and a half hours after take-off.
Volunteers from the museum are restoring a “very rare” replica of the aircraft she made her last fateful flight in and are fundraising for a new hangar to showcase it.
