The remarkable aircraft - a Short SC.7 Skyvan - is being used at Langar Airfield for skydiving. Nicknamed the Flying Shoebox, ...

Hoffner first skydived when she was 100. On Sunday, she left her walker behind just short of the plane – a Skyvan – and was helped up the steps to join the others waiting inside to skydive.

They continued to make military aircraft but as time passed, focussed more on planes that could move passengers and cargo. The most famous was the Short Skyvan, nicknamed the ‘Flying Shoebox ...