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Sept 2020
NHS Spitfire to fly over Harrogate this morning
The aircraft aborted its mission to fly over the hospital last week was due to the weather. Its flypasts have so far raised more than £90,000 for NHS Charities.
The iconic NHS spitfire was forced to turn back.
The NHS Spitfire is due to fly over Harrogate District Hospital at 11.51am this morning.
The aircraft was scheduled to pass over the town last week but its mission was aborted due to bad weather.
With the weather set fair, today's journey will hopefully go ahead.
The aircraft, which has the words 'Thank U NHS' on its undercarriage, has so far raised more than £90,000 from its flypasts for NHS Charities, which is a federation of 250 charities that support the NHS.
Donors can nominate a name to be written on the aircraft's airframe. There is room for 80,000 names.
Read more:
- Eyes to the skies as spitfire flies over Harrogate hospital
- Mission aborted: No Harrogate hospital NHS Spitfire flypast
The aircraft was due to have left Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire at 10am today.
From there it was scheduled to fly over hospitals in Wakefield, Leeds and Bradford before arriving in Harrogate and then head on to York, Northallerton, Darlington and Teesside.
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