Career
He also held a pilot"s licence after learning to fly at Reading Aerodrome, Berkshire, United Kingdom, and entered his own Miles Hawk Speed Six racing aeroplane (registered G-ADGP) in the prestigious King"s Cup Air Race in 1935. Fontés later briefly served as an Air Transport Auxiliary ferry pilot during World World War II but was killed on 12 October 1940 while delivering a Vickers Wellington Mk1C bomber to an Royal Air Force Aircraft Storage Unit at Llandow in South Wales. The Le Mans Lagonda M45R ("BPK 202") survives in the Dutch National Automobile Museum (Louwman Museum) at The Hague and the aeroplane was owned and raced for many years postwar by the late Ron Paine but is now owned by retired Concorde pilot Roger Mills and flies from White Waltham airfield, Berkshire, United Kingdom.