Spitfire mad!

In answer to these

stuart gowans
I’d be interested in seeing a pic of J Fawke’s “Spitfire” project ,for no other reason than to use as a bench mark for my much humbler offering.

All you have to do is ask him unless your comments are 2 sided of course?

Mark12
K9851- John Fawke…Just will not surface.

Peter
just because this project will never be airworthy it should still be given the same amount of respect that you give to S.Gowans project.

Yes Rlangham, when it was restored by the Medway Preservation Society a few years ago (what a great bunch of restorers) the Cosford Mk1 was restored to ‘stock’ (chrome controls, ring and bead sight, flat canopy etc). It’s fantastic.

Moggy 🙂

I’d be interested in seeing a pic of J Fawke’s “Spitfire” project ,for no other reason than to use as a bench mark for my much humbler offering.

Besides the aforementioned AR213 I have the following listed.. If anyone has updates or photos please let me know .. Thanks..
Neil Medcalf
Mk1-
K9851- John Fawke
K9942- RAF Cosford
N3200- V3 Museum, France
P9306- Museum Of Science and Industry, USA
P9374- Spitfire Partners, Isle of Wight “belived stored”
P9444- Science Museum, London
R6915- Imperial War Museum
X4590- BOB Museum

Mk II-
P7350- BBMF
P7540- Dumfries & Galloway Museum
P7973- Australian War Memorial
P8208- Recovery parts just sold on Ebay again this week!
P8332- National Aviation Museum, Canada

K9851- John Fawke…Just will not surface.

N3200- V3 Museum, France…The remains to the UK – 2 December 2000

Mark

Yes Rlangham, when it was restored by the Medway Preservation Society a few years ago (what a great bunch of restorers) the Cosford Mk1 was restored to ‘stock’ (chrome controls, ring and bead sight, flat canopy etc). It’s fantastic.

Probably a stupid question, but does the Cosford Spit I have a flat canopy like early Mk I’s? On photos i’ve seen of it it seems to be flatter than the distinctive bubble canopy.

what other spits both in the uk and abroad can we expect to see flying this year? i know the arco mkix has just flown, we should have a new mxviii with the tfc, and although its a seafire, the tim manna example. any others?

Early Spits

Besides the aforementioned AR213 I have the following listed.. If anyone has updates or photos please let me know .. Thanks..
Neil Medcalf
Mk1-
K9851- John Fawke
K9942- RAF Cosford
N3200- V3 Museum, France
P9306- Museum Of Science and Industry, USA
P9374- Spitfire Partners, Isle of Wight “belived stored”
P9444- Science Museum, London
R6915- Imperial War Museum
X4590- BOB Museum

Mk II-
P7350- BBMF
P7540- Dumfries & Galloway Museum
P7973- Australian War Memorial
P8208- Recovery parts just sold on Ebay again this week!
P8332- National Aviation Museum, Canada

O.K. I’m going to ask an easy one now!
The world renowned Spitfire Expert Peter Arnold had a Spit in his gararge years ago You don’t hear of him or the aircraft much these days. Is he still beavering away at it?

Rgds Cking

P.S. I’ll do a search now!!!!

Sold on.

As for MkI Spits – there are two, possibly three, under rebuild.

AR213/G-AIST, as already mentioned.

P9374/G-MKIA – not sure what’s happened to this one.

The Real Aeroplane Co have another (whose serial I forget) on long-term rebuild.

O.K. I’m going to ask an easy one now!
The world renowned Spitfire Expert Peter Arnold had a Spit in his gararge years ago You don’t hear of him or the aircraft much these days. Is he still beavering away at it?

Rgds Cking

P.S. I’ll do a search now!!!!

i know there’s a few mark 1’s knocking around. does anybody have any info on these (i.e who owns them, what status the rebuild is on etc). 😎

TE 294 The Y2-K Spitfire, going well in Canada

The Y2-K Spitfire, now in it’s 5th year of re-build is going well on Canada’s West Coast. The Comox Air Force Museum is proud of this Spitfire project and has been making steady progress. www.y2kspitfire.com The hangar is open every Saturday for tours and special tours can be arranged mid-week by phoning ahead.

Hello Daz,

‘213 is coming along nicely, still chasing the odd elusive part, engine is going off to Retro soon and the prop is due to go to Avia (it’s a Dh 3 blader not the old 4 blader) so we hope to have her back in the air by this time next year, or before, if things go well. Should be about as stock as possible once completed, TR.9D radio, flat sided hood and external armour glass screen, oval-glass gunsight, oxygen system and, if we can find a pattern to copy, mechanical undercarraige position indicators in the wings.

Tom

Already drooling! 😉

[How is AR213 coming along, by the way?

Hello Daz,

‘213 is coming along nicely, still chasing the odd elusive part, engine is going off to Retro soon and the prop is due to go to Avia (it’s a Dh 3 blader not the old 4 blader) so we hope to have her back in the air by this time next year, or before, if things go well. Should be about as stock as possible once completed, TR.9D radio, flat sided hood and external armour glass screen, oval-glass gunsight, oxygen system and, if we can find a pattern to copy, mechanical undercarraige position indicators in the wings.

Tom[/QUOTE]

Try Tom Freidkin,ML417 had these(as you well know!!)

[How is AR213 coming along, by the way?[/QUOTE]

Hello Daz,

‘213 is coming along nicely, still chasing the odd elusive part, engine is going off to Retro soon and the prop is due to go to Avia (it’s a Dh 3 blader not the old 4 blader) so we hope to have her back in the air by this time next year, or before, if things go well. Should be about as stock as possible once completed, TR.9D radio, flat sided hood and external armour glass screen, oval-glass gunsight, oxygen system and, if we can find a pattern to copy, mechanical undercarraige position indicators in the wings.

Tom

Spitfire Madness……or Spitfire Nonchalance ?

We had friends over from California recently, when a Spitfire flew over our house one weekend, Dave went into raptures, I didnt even look up, ‘Wow a Spitfire’ he gleefully shouted as he ran into the garden, ‘we see them all the time Dave, no big deal anymore’ I said.
There was a time when i would have jumped out of my chair to run and look, but this day and age with the prospect of more to become airworthy has taken the magic away.
Now a Hurricane is an entirely different matter 😀

Daz

I’m still unsure who your ‘mystery guide’ was, might’ve been Tom Allibone……

As for ‘262 the wings are finished, Hull Aero finished them a while back, the fuselage hasn’t been touched since you last saw her in ’96 but that MIGHT change soon, time will tell.

Tom

Thanks, Tom.

The ‘mystery guide’ looked familiar, maybe I’d seen him in a magazine or video someplace, which makes it all the more frustrating!! :rolleyes:

How is AR213 coming along, by the way?

i’m really looking forward to seeing the new HFL MKV in desert camo with the dessert filter on it! it would great if the fighter coollection changed the kittyhawk M to a RAF tomahawk desert camoflage (bearing in mind the p40b is nearing completion) with the TFC hurricane beating up the airfield!! its a shame black 6 is no longer flying. now don’t get me started on that…… 🙁 😡

Spitfire XIV MV262 – I’m sure that was there at Booker when I was there in 1996. Anything done on it since?

(I STILL haven’t found out who the pilot was who showed me around the restoration side! :()

Daz

I’m still unsure who your ‘mystery guide’ was, might’ve been Tom Allibone……

As for ‘262 the wings are finished, Hull Aero finished them a while back, the fuselage hasn’t been touched since you last saw her in ’96 but that MIGHT change soon, time will tell.

Tom

Nah, it’s much higher than that! For some reason the search only goes back as far as July this year! :confused:

I believe it only shows the last 500 hits of any particular word.

Flood