Carolyn Grace

[2] Though she was pressured not to take up solo flying as a widow with two children, Grace felt she needed to commemorate her late husband.

[2] She subsequently accumulated 900 flying hours, performing at various air shows and memorial events.

[3] The aircraft was kept at RAF Bentwaters, Woodbridge, Suffolk,[6] and Aon, who sponsored her events, met the expensive insurance costs.

[2] In 2004, Grace flew this Spitfire over Chartwell, the former residence of Winston Churchill, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day.

[5] Grace died after a car accident at Goulburn, New South Wales,[8] on 2 December 2022, at the age of 70.