Wings for Airbus aircraft are regularly transported by an Airbus transport plane which flies over Dartmouth.

The Airbus A300-600ST is known as the ‘Beluga’ because it looks like this minke sea mammal. It has been in service since 1994.

The Airbus cargo plane has one of the biggest cargo holds of any aircraft. Its unusual shape can accommodate 1,400 cubic metres, equivalent to 671 people, 36 cars or seven elephants.

David Bown, recent winner of the Regatta Photography competition and aviation enthusiast said of his photograph: “It is an Airbus flying from Toulouse to Chester where wings for Airbus aircraft are made. I took it from my garden in Dartmouth.

“It usually flies over at 30-32,000ft and around 440 mph, I know this because I look at my Planefinder app and amazingly I get altitude, speed, heading, destination etc. There are five of these planes, numbered 1-5 and I have seen all of them except no 2.”