A drone pilot has pleaded guilty to endangering a historic aircraft during an RAF memorial flypast in front of an estimated 20,000 people.
Mark Bagguley was in charge of the device when it flew dangerously close to the wing of a Hawker Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight RAF display group, which was flying over Buxton, Derbyshire, as part of the town's annual carnival on July 9 last year.
The drone was later seized and Bagguley, 49, was arrested as the flypast had a short-term air space restriction which banned other flights in the area, including by drones. Bagguley, of Chatsworth Road, Fairfield, pleaded guilty at Chesterfield Justice Centre on Monday to endangering an aircraft and operating an aircraft out of the visual line of sight.
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