Spitfire SL721 up for sale

This aircraft is very original and actually has its original engine it came with from the factory

Doug Arnold.

T J

Who’s that TJ?

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T J

Thanks for the reply Mark 12 & DazDaMan

Roger

If I remember correctly, there was a great article in Aeroplane Monthly on the restoration and painting of the aircraft.

The JMR scheme was slightly darker tonally than the initial J-MR scheme.

By judgement this is a close as Chris Wood could get it viewing all available B & W images.

Mark

Does anyone know the original 1946/7 light blue colour.
I thought originally it was PR Blue but that seems to be to dark and grey compared to photographs. I know you can’t take photographic colours as gospel but the difference to me seems to great.
Thanks for any help
Roger

Mark 12, PV 202 blows smoke rings on start-up quite regularly, doing experience flights for Classic Wings’ guests at Duxford

Surely one of the most famous of the surviving Spitfires in my view.

Competitively priced, let us hope it is destined for a reinstatement of one of its two JMR blue liveries and not converted to high back canopy/fuselage.

Mark

Indeed!

And it would be nice if it did return to the UK too.

A big no from me also for a potential new owner to convert it to a highback.

Cheers

Paul

Apart from the spinner and two extra ‘stars’…perfect.

Mark

Image by Phillip Wallick 11 October 1998.

That’s how I saw it Mark, simply gorgeous!

I hope vintage Wings of Canada does an air to air shoot with their two Spits before SL721 departs.
Canada has far too few Spitfires for such a huge country.

Andy

I’ve got a 1/72 version of that waiting to be built somewhere….

Apart from the spinner and two extra ‘stars’…perfect.

Mark

Image by Phillip Wallick 11 October 1998.

I think its a real smoke ring….wonderful timing eh?
Keith

Dev One.

Is that a ‘smoke ring’ by the cockpit or smudge on the print?

Mark

Engine start Deer Valley after shipment from Blackbushe. Taken apart & re-assembled by my father in 1977.
Keith

I lived just a mile or two from Deer Valley between 1979 and 1983 and don’t ever recall seing SL721 there. I have some fond memories of TE308 during that time but did not become aware of SL721 until visiting Woodson K. Woods’ short lived museum at Cave Creek airport some years later where both Spits were on display. If memory serves SL721 had some issues that prevented it from flying during much of the time that Woods owned it. Yes? As far as I am concerned the aircraft, once refinished by Chris Woods into the blue livery, was the most beautiful of restored Spitfires. The current scheme is about as ho-hum as they get by comparison. I too would like to see it returned to the previous scheme as it is both beautiful to look at as well as historically accurate. What more could one want?!! Of course I would also like to see it returned to the USA but, more than anything, hope that it remains a flyer wherever it ends up.

I was asked by the engineer if I’d like to sit in it, but declined as we had a quick turn around.

That would have been me then (the engineer) while the aircraft was still based in Ottawa. I was the engineer on this aircraft from 2001 through to 2007 and put a lot of work into it. Small world indeed @Piston.

Checked my lottery ticket last night…

The bad news: I didn’t win the $432.5M

The good news: Neither did any other ******.

Now I wonder when and why the D-A code was all but removed.
I guess it was done during the reassembly in order to reflect the new owners initials?
The attached shows her almost one year on, when my father was due to revisit & change a radiator, but suffered a heart attack, subsequently dying.
Keith