4th July 2009 – London City Airport hosts an annual Fun Day in an attempt to give something back to the local communities who put up with the airports noise year round. Car parking is strictly limited, so the easy ways to the airport are by train or by air, and at least 20 light aircraft joined the fly-in for the only UK airshow inside Controlled Airspace (Class D).

GAR photographer and reporter Karl Drage joined the team for a day and flew with Ian Gallacher in Cosford’s Chipmunk towplane for some air-to-air photographs over Canning Town and the O2 (the Dome) before our landing.

The unusual airshow attracts the best of the best. Dennis Kenyon flew his legendary helicopter routine and Anna Walker displayed the Hawker Hurricane, the first female pilot of the fighter since of the World War 2.

Thanks must go to Karl and his family for joining us for the day and Paul Johnson for ferrying fuel.