The Boeing B-50 Superfortress is classified as a light aircraft and is licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority.
Built by Tony Nijhuis in his garage the aircraft is a scale version of the US 1950s bomber, has a 20ft wingspan and weighs just over seven stones.
It took Mr Nijhuis, from Hastings, East Sussex, two years to make the radio-controlled plane that he calls the 'jolly green giant' and cost him £8,000.
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It has 96 batteries that power four electric motors which drive the aircraft to 40mph along a 50m runway before it takes off.
It can then fly for eight minutes in the air before it has to descend so the batteries can be recharged.
Made from balsa wood and plywood, the plane also has workable bomb bay doors and pneumatic landing gear.
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