Is this the way to Amarillo?

Thanks for the clarification, Mk12.

Dave

It is all finished and on display. I’ll post a shot shortly. I must away.

There are four complete PR XI Spitfires extant.

Mark

Dave,

Here is the shot of PA908 after completion to static restoration for the USAAF Museum at Dayton in mid 1993. Shot from a ‘cherry picker’ it looks for all as if it is a large model out on the patio. It was painted to represent MB950 from period photographs.

Perhaps I should clarify my four Mk XI’s extant. PA908 in Dayton, USA, PL965 airworthy with Peter Teichman at North Weald, UK, PL979 at the RNorAF museum at Gardermoen in Norway and finally PL983, a fatal crash in 2001 and a write off by any standards but in this modern day and age, and in its current ownership, is likely to be resuscitated at the appropriate time.

Photo credit: USAAF Museum/Wes Henry

Mark

Great, great pics 🙂

Thanks.

Moggy

According to WRG’s Spitfire registry:

PA908 – http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/registry/spitregistry/spitfire-pa908.html

PL965 – http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/registry/spitregistry/spitfire-pl965.html

PL979 – http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/registry/spitregistry/spitfire-pl979.html

and PL983 – http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/registry/spitregistry/spitfire-pl983.html

As we all know what happened to PL983 (and I have been told it’s undergoing rebuild (so essentially a ‘new’ Spit), what’s the other one? :confused:

Thanks. Interesting, so one at Breighton, one at Dayton, where are the other two? One’s in France, isn’t it? I’ve always liked the PR XI, might be because of the colour schemes, PRU blue and PRU pink look good on a Spit.

Wow, some lovely shots there Mark. Very nice. Looks very cold.

Has anything been done with the Spitfire since? How many PR XI’s exist these days?

Dave

It is all finished and on display. I’ll post a shot shortly. I must away.

There are four complete PR XI Spitfires extant.

Mark

Wow, some lovely shots there Mark. Very nice. Looks very cold.

Has anything been done with the Spitfire since? How many PR XI’s exist these days?

That Spitfire PR XI

Here is a shot of the PR XI Spitfire PA908 at Dayton, then recently acquired from a Vancouver based group of local corporate pilots and business men. They had tendered for the aircraft in India, where it had been a ground instructional airframe and then finally a ‘Gate Guardian’ at Poona/Pune.

When the aircraft arrived in its crate at Vancouver, to much interest from the airport fraternity, one of the corporate jet operators, ‘Brick Bradford’, remarked that he flown the PR XI’s with 681 Squadron as part of SEAC, Burma, India etc. Sure enough when he looked in his log book he had flown PA908/’E’ and later ‘I’ – quite a coincidence.

Mark