One aviation fan is being offered the chance to fly back to World War II and go for a ride in a Spitfire.

Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar is offering a would-be sponsor the opportunity to raise money for its annual Remembrance Day fly-by.

The company, which has six working Spitfires and a Hurricane among its wartime fleet, honours the day each year with the very planes that took to the skies to fight Nazi Germany.

In 2013 the hangar managed to get funding to send four of the iconic Spitfires up amid the clouds, at a cost of around £1,000 per plane.

Now those in Biggin Hill want to hear the roar of all of them – and around £8,000 would pay for it, as well as leaving enough to take a passenger on a trip in a two-seater.

Engineer Joe Hirst, 32, who grew up in Orpington watching the machines and now works at the hangar, said: "We’re looking for either a very kind individual or corporate sponsor.

"It’s an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to fly in a Spitfire. It’s pretty special.

"It’s a lot of money but getting them up in the air is a great spectacle, and it’s just out way of paying tribute to Remembrance Sunday."

Each year the team gets as many of the old planes airborne as possible to fly over a nearby RAF Chapel.

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Mr Hirst said that in 2013, when four were funded, the timing was perfect and the pilots managed to thunder past the building just as the two-minute silence finished.

He added: "It’d be truly brilliant to get all six up. The Spitfire is a remarkable plane.

"We hope the experience is enough to attract someone who can pay for us to do it."

The Hangar houses a collection of airworthy Spitfires, arguably the greatest in the world. It also keeps a Hawker Hurricane, Europe's oldest flying Harvard, and a 1944 Grasshopper.

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As well as restoration work the company hosts visitors and can be hired out at events.