A fighter plane flew over a private members’ club today to commemorate an emergency landing during the Battle of Britain.

The flypast came nearly 75 years after a Hawker Hurricane plane was shot and forced to emergency land onto the golf course at the Royal Automobile Club in Woodcote Park, Epsom.

Pilot officer Peter Simpson, 19, then reportedly convinced two golfers he was not a German by producing a packet of British cigarettes in August 1940.

The flypast was part of a celebration of the club’s longest-serving members, including someone who joined in 1933, and the lunch marked the 116th anniversary of its formation.

Pilot Peter Kynsey, three-time British Aerobatic Champion, flew the Hurricane fighter aircraft over the club today.

Some people living nearby heard the noise of the fighter plane and spotted it soaring through the skies of Epsom.

Andrew Wills said: "It was the noise that first attracted me and I looked out of the window to see a plane dive bombing towards what was the RAC.

"Crazy things go through your mind but I’m delighted to find out it was an air show. It was a surprise and good to know it was all planned.