The WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust is anchor to an annual worldwide initiative to keep the sacrifice of WW1 including the Aviators alive for current and future generations - The Poetry Plane.

We have a growing network of schools around the world who are learning to write poems about WW1. These poems will be dropped from a WW1 aeroplane at key commemorations - The Battle of the Somme 1 Jul 2025 and at the Remembrance Service on 9 Nov 2025 at the UK National Memorial Arboretum. The poem papers are seeded with the memorial flowers of Britain, France and Germany - the poppy, the cornflower and the forget-me-not. For more information, click on this clink.

The symbolism to children of their poems recognising the sacrifice being gathered up and flown to France where the fallen lie and dropped  over the graves to become flowers is extemely powerful. The Trust for its part has visited nearly 100 schools since the end of COVID generating more than 3000 poems.

The Poetry Plane Team (below) contribute a massive amount of volunteer time to make this happen.  Please donate to assist us with meeting the costs of travel, accommodation, licenses, administration.

Royal British Legion Somme Branch ‘Commemorating the fallen in WW1’

The Lochnagar Crater Organisation ‘Conserving this unique Great War Site from the Battle of the Somme’

New Zealand Liberation Museum – Te Arawhata ‘Celebrating Freedom, Friendship and Future’

WW1AHT ‘Keeping the Aviation Legacy of WW1 Alive’

The Poetry Postie ‘Delivering poetic inspiration to the Nation’

ArtConnexion ‘Creativity is Intelligence having fun’

Sir John Monash Centre and Australian National Memorial ‘Understanding the journey of ordinary Australians in WW1’

College Antoine de Saint Exupery -Aug ‘Honouring the sacrifice of WW1’

Somme Tourisme ‘Great War Remembrance’