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EPISODE · Mar 7, 2016 · 3 MIN

100 year old plane returns

from BBC Radio Foyle · host BBC Radio Foyle

It's more than a hundred years old, was flown across the strands of Magilligan and also crash landed. Yes, Harry Ferguson was the man who made Ireland's first flight and he was the first citizen of the UK to build and fly his own aeroplane. The original parts of the plane are now coming back to Magilligan for a BBC documentary. Our reporter Dean McLaughlin visited Owen Anderson, a technical officer at the Ulster Gliding Club in Magilligan, to find out more.

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