The Classic Jets Collection

Classic British Jets and the Early Jet Age

JET Art Gallery’s Classic Jets Collection celebrates the aircraft that marked Britain’s transition into the jet age and became familiar sights throughout the Cold War. Subjects include the Gloster Meteor, de Havilland Vampire, English Electric Canberra, Hawker Hunter, English Electric Lightning, Blackburn Buccaneer and F-4 Phantom.

From First-Generation Jets to Supersonic Interceptors

The collection follows the development of British military jet aviation from pioneering post-war designs through high-altitude reconnaissance, air defence and low-level strike roles. It also includes the BAC TSR-2, an ambitious British strike aircraft programme whose cancellation left only a small number of surviving airframes.

Limited Edition Classic Jet Artwork

Selected prints are available in signed or specialist editions, with individual product pages setting out the artist, edition size and signatures where applicable. Together, the artworks provide a visual record of an important period in RAF and British aviation history.

Explore Classic Jet Aircraft Collections

Discover our English Electric Lightning, English Electric Canberra, Hawker Hunter, Blackburn Buccaneer and F-4 Phantom II collections.

Explore the pioneering jet age through our Gloster Meteor and de Havilland Vampire collections.

Browse Prints
Four military jets fly in formation over the ocean beneath a cloudy sky.

Blackburn Buccaneer: Blue Fire

Price range: £75.00 through £300.00
Blackburn Buccaneer The Penetrator by Michael Rondot

Blackburn Buccaneer: The Penetrator

Price range: £95.00 through £300.00
Twin-engine military aircraft in olive camouflage glides over snow-covered fields under a blue sky.

Canberra PR9 The Black Hole

Price range: £95.00 through £300.00
WWII-era twin-engine bomber on a rain-soaked airstrip with a dark, stormy sky and a second aircraft flying overhead.

Canberra Tribute

Price range: £75.00 through £340.00
RAF jet, silver with roundel, flying over a desert canyon under a blue sky.

Canberra: PR9 Over Kabul

Price range: £120.00 through £300.00
Twin-seat gray military jet flying through cloudy sky above coastline, with rear aircraft in formation and drop tanks under wings

Combat Over Blakeney

Price range: £75.00 through £300.00
EE Lightning lifting off from a wet runway, spraying water as it climbs under a cloudy sky from RAF Gutersloh

English Electric Lightning

Price range: £150.00 through £300.00
Painting of a military fighter jet on a rain-soaked airstrip, spraying water as it taxis/lands with reflected puddles nearby.

Hawker Hunter

Price range: £150.00 through £300.00
Formation of WWII-era jets: a weathered silver bomber in the foreground with RAF roundel, and a large Soviet-style bomber with a red star in the background amid clouds.

Lightning Intercept

Price range: £75.00 through £300.00
Silver RAF jet on a wet runway, dramatic stormy sky in the background, roundels visible on fuselage.

Lightning Legend

Price range: £75.00 through £300.00
RAF fighter aircraft taking off from a rain-soaked runway, with spray behind and a dramatic cloudy sky.

Lightning Thunder

Price range: £75.00 through £320.00
Formation of three RAF jet aircraft with roundels flying over a formal estate and river below, under a stormy blue sky.

Meteors Over Castle Howard

Price range: £75.00 through £300.00
Phantom Patrol by Philip E West

Phantom Patrol

Price range: £95.00 through £195.00
Phantom Farewell by Michael Rondot – RAF F-4 Phantom FGR2 landing with braking parachute deployed

Phantom Farewell

Price range: £150.00 through £300.00
Phantom Thunder by Michael Rondot

Phantom Thunder

Price range: £75.00 through £300.00
Two vintage military jets in formation flight through cloudy skies; a green-gray fuselage leads below while a silver jet passes overhead far right.

The Sharp End

Price range: £95.00 through £300.00
Painting of Tower Bridge in London with a WWII-era aircraft flying across the span and a red double-decker bus on the bridge

Tower Bridge Incident

Price range: £175.00 through £300.00
Painting of four WWII-era British fighter planes in formation, silhouetted against a blue-to-sunset sky with RAF roundels on their wings.

Vampire Sunset

Price range: £95.00 through £300.00