Two legendary wartime aircraft have been taking to the skies above the Isle of Man.

A Spitfire and the American P-51 Mustang have been operating passenger flights from Ronaldsway Airport.

Thirty-five-minute flight experiences in the dual-control Spitfire or in the cockpit behind the pilot of the Mustang are available until Saturday, priced at £4,950 and £2,995 respectively. They include a victory roll.

It’s a return visit to the island for the 1943-built Spitfire MJ627, which last offered flight experiences here in June.

The aircraft entered service with 441 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force in September 1944 and only two days later destroyed a Messerschmitt Me109 over Arnhem.

After the war, it was converted to a two-seater and sold to the Irish Air Corps, where it remained until its withdrawal in 1960.

It was restored in time for the 50th anniversary of its first flight. Seventy years and 1,500 flying hours after being built, it became one of a fleet of three Spitfires based at RAF Biggin Hill and operated by Fly a Spitfire.

The 1944-built Mustang P-51D, painted in the guise of Moonbeam McSwine, was accepted by the USAF in October that year and shipped to England for the 8th Air Force.

Mustangs were long-range, single-seat fighter aircraft initially used as fighter-bombers and reconnaissance planes before later becoming bomber escorts during raids over Germany.

They also saw service during the Korean War as the main fighter aircraft. They remained in service with some air forces until the early 1980s.

The name Moonbeam McSwine came from a character in a US comic strip. The aircraft also bears the name of Captain William T Whisner, a legendary multiple flying ace in both the Second World War and the Korean War.

His Second World War score tally is displayed beside the cockpit.