DAREDEVIL pensioner Peter Levett took to the air for charity – on the outside of the aircraft.

He completed a stomach-churning wingwalk and raised more than £1,600 for the Great North Air Ambulance Service.

Peter, from the village of Ovington, near Barnard Castle, took off from North Yorkshire’s Breighton Airfield and has now handed over a cheque to the charity’s aircrew.

The 63-year-old said: “Since taking early retirement two years ago, I have been ticking things off my 'before I die' bucket list.

"It's something I'd wanted to do for many years and now at the ripe young age of 63, I finally had the chance to do it. It was amazing.

"I thought that if I'm going to risk life and limb then someone should get some benefit from it and that's why I decided to support GNAAS.

"They save so many lives, be they bikers like me, people in remote locations such as farmers and fell walkers or anyone anywhere who is in urgent need of medical assistance."

However his scary flight has not put him off wingwalking – and already he is planning another flight.

“They don’t let you do acrobatics the first time and I want to go upside down,” he said.

Mr Levett and his wife Barbara visited the GNAAS airbase at Durham Tees Valley Airport to present the cheque.

The GNASS head of fundraising Mandy Drake said: “Peter has proved that age is just a number and has completed challenges that many half his age wouldn’t consider.

“We want to thank him for raising more than three times his original fundraising target.”