A major national event commemorating the start of the First World War is to be held in Angus later this year.
The event on August 2 and 3 will mark 100 years since Number 2 Squadron left Montrose Air Station to lead the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) to war.
Major Hubert Dunsterville Harvey-Kelly was credited with being the first RFC pilot to land in France in the war and the first RFC pilot to down an enemy aircraft.
Alan Doe, chairman of Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre, said the two-day event is being organised with close involvement from the RAF and the Western Front Association.
He said: “The subsequent landing of the first British aircraft in France, a BE2 piloted by No 2 Squadron’s Lieutenant Harvey-Kelly, inspired our First in France Project, which is to be launched on the weekend of August 2/3.
“This will feature the establishment of a new centre dedicated to the history of aviation during the First World War the Lt J Ross Robertson Building.”
The next day the First in France Project will be officially launched by Georgiana Osborne, Lord Lieutenant of Angus, at a private reception.
The air station would like to invite as many families of the men who served there during the First World War to this reception as possible.
For more information about the First in France launch event, visit www.rafmontrose.org.uk.