Organisers of Oxfordshire's Festival of Flight say they are planning a similar event for next year following the event's huge success at the weekend.

The spectacular air display at Blenheim Palace on Sunday, the birthplace of wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, was attended by about 25,000 visitors.

The festival, sponsored by the Oxford Mail, was scheduled to coincide with the 60th anniversary of VJ Day and visitors came from across the UK for Europe's biggest VJ Day celebrations.

The event included battle re-enactments, members of the Second World War Historical Society in 1940s costume, dancers, singers and a moving finale by a Vera Lynn tribute act.

The highlight for many visitors was the four-hour air display which included a flypast by a US Army Air Force B-17 bomber, a Spitfire display and an aerobatics show by the RAF's Red Arrows.

The festival followed the Fly To The Past event two years ago, which was on a smaller scale, but organisers say they would now like to book Blenheim on an annual basis.

Bethan Simkins, a spokesman for organisers CMC Media, said: "The Festival of Flight was such a success that we're hopeful and optimistic that this could become an annual event.

"It's probably too early to say that were actually planning next year's event, because this one has just finished, but it went fantastically well and there's certainly the demand in this part of the world for Oxfordshire to have its very own air display. Everything went like clockwork on Sunday and it was a special event because of the 60th anniversary connections.

"We're thinking along the lines of an annual air display which has a connection with the past and features planes old and new."

The only drawback to the festival was the traffic approaching the site, with some visitors stuck in queues for 30 minutes on the A44.

Ms Simkins added: "We followed all the correct procedures for getting traffic on and off the site. Given the number of people who attended, I don't think the hold-ups were too bad."