
MH434's Pilots
Lee Proudfoot (Chief Pilot OFMC)

Lee lives in Cambridgeshire with his wife Lucy and their two daughters.
Paul Bonhomme

Paul’s passion for aerobatics started when he worked at White Waltham airfield near London where he helped Richard Goode prepare and maintain his Pitts Special aircraft. Paul went on to fly aerobatics displays for Richard in the Pitts, Yak 50, Extra 300 and Sukhoi 26. He continues to display unlimited aerobatic aircraft alongside former Air Race pilot Steve Jones as the Matadors.
Stuart Goldspink

Stuart learnt to fly in New Zealand aged 17 ½ and on returning to UK towed gliders at Dunstable to get his hours for his commercial license. Aged 21, he had 1,200 hrs and was on the path to Commercial flying as a career. He worked for Bowker Air Services, aged 23, as a Crop spraying pilot for 8 years flying the Piper Pawnee, and it was here that he started building his first aeroplane, a Pitts Special, which he went on to display and compete in, in various aerobatic competitions.
The first real ‘warbird’ Stuart flew was the 1918 Nieuport 28 powered by a 160 Gnome Rotary - a fine air-show machine which makes a noise crossed between a Dragster and machine gun ! He progressed to the WW2 aircraft after being invited to fly for the Fighter Collection at Duxford. It was here Stuart flew the mighty “Jug” P47 Thunderbolt, to this day still his favourite aircraft of all time. Through Mark Hanna’s invitation, he subsequently flew the New Zealand based Polikarpovs at the glorious ‘Warbirds over Wanaka’ air display in the Southern Alps.
Stuart has 21,000 hrs and, more than 150 types in his log book; in between his day job as a Captain with Thomson Airways - flying Boeing 767/757 on World wide routes - he also travels to New Zealand to display various vintage aircraft there outside of the UK display season.
Steve Jones

Steve along with Paul Bonhomme have been flying competitively and as display pilots in their SukhoiDuo and later "The Matadors" Team since 1994. They have taken their magnificent show around the world from the UAE to Japan and China. Steve flies as the wingman. A position of great skill and as many describe "the one with the most work to do!"
His spare time spent building an old wooden racing aircraft, and maintaining his two 1950's racing cars, to fulfil his love of engineering!
Alister Kay

In 1987 Alister entered and won his first aerobatic competition in a Pitts Special and began air-display flying the following year. He now has 9,000 flying hours on 150 types of mainly tailwheel single engine aircraft and gliders. For many years Alister was based at Booker Airfield, which used to be home to MH434 (the OFMC Spitfire) and this inspired his ambition to fly piston fighters.
In 1998 Alister flew the OFMC Harvard, progressing to the P-51D Mustang, P-40 Kittyhawk and the Spitfire MH434. He displays for OFMC throughout Europe. .
Nigel Lamb

Nigel has been a professional air display pilot since 1981 and has flown approximately 1,500 public displays in 24 countries world-wide. He has been British National Aerobatic Champion in the Unlimited Class 8 times.
He is a very keen scuba diver and also enjoys skiiing, squash and tennis. His wife Hillary is also keen on competition aerobatics and won her second contest flying a Bucker Jungman bi-plane. They have three sons, Max, Daniel and Ben and live in Oxfordshire, England.
Brian Smith

A professional pilot by trade, Brian has amassed over 20,000 hours flying time on many different types of aircraft ranging from ultra-lights to Jumbos. He currently flies 747s for Virgin Atlantic.
Although an infrequent flier with the OFMC nowadays, Brian is privileged to continue to fly with the other private collections based at Duxford, and proudly continues to display historic aircraft in the true Hanna tradition.
The Support Team
Laura Bonhomme

Sarah Hanna - Company Manager

Tim Fane (Chief Engineer)
Involved on an Ad Hoc basis from 2008, Tim returned as Chief Engineer in 2011 to look after the Spitfire he had first seen as a boy in the 1970s at Booker.
Joe Kennedy

Get in touch

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