Three more Spit restorations from Australia.

Hi All,

Came across this article courtesy of:- https://www.warbirdsonline.com.au/2019/11/25/supermarine-spitfire-restorations-australia/ 

A58-63 Supermarine F.VC RAF Serial BS164 / Spitfire F.VC RAF Serial MA353 RAAF A58-232 / Seafire Royal Navy Serial No SW800

(First two Paragraphs of article – Click above link for complete article and more photos)

(Supermarine Spitfire MK VcT BS164 A58-63 restoration in fuselage jig at VFR Scone NSW – Nov 2019)

More exciting news from Vintage Fighter Restorations (VFR) at Scone NSW with the arrival of 3 new Supermarine projects – two Supermarine Spitfires F.VC (Trop) and a Supermarine Seafire Mk XV. The 3 projects have been resident in South Australia for some time and were recently purchased by Ross Pay and Paul Bennet for restoration at Scone and arrived this week.

The two Spitfire Mk V aircraft are A58-232 F.VC (RAF Serial MA353) and A58-63 F.VC (RAF Serial`BS164) whilst the Seafire is F Mk.XV (Royal Navy serial SW800). Not being ones to sit on their hands, VFR has already commenced the restoration of Spitfire A58-63/ BS164 which will remain in Scone with Ross Pay/VFR post restoration. The fuselage has started taking shape in the jig within the workshop. This restoration will be completely in house as VFR has all the skills and experience required to complete the process being somewhat of a Spitfire production line at present with the two Mk IX Spitfires MH415 and MH603 nearing completion.

Geoff.