I am indebted to register sleuth ‘MK959’ who advises that P9374 has just been registered in the USA as N92SQ to one Ronald Steven Lauder (born February 26, 1944) an American businessman, art collector, philanthropist, and political activist. He is an heir to the Estée Lauder Companies, and the president of the World Jewish Congress.
This despite word that it was not destined to fly under the new ownership.
We will see.
Mark
By: JohnTerrell - 11th June 2017 at 14:19
Thank you for the info. There are a good deal of warbird owners around the world that are businessmen that don’t fly the aircraft themselves, but allow qualified individuals to fly them regularly – so as said, we will see if that holds true here as well. One of the members/heirs of the Walton family (Walmart fortune) here in the US, over the past few years, has purchased a Spitfire (SM969), two Mustangs, the F2G “Race 57”, a Tigercat and a Storch, and I know that at least some of these continue to be flown with various pilots. Heirs of the Hearst family have the former Howard Hughes B-25C currently under ground-up restoration at Ezell Aviation to eventually fly again (keeping the executive configuration).
By: trumper - 11th June 2017 at 13:14
For those of us who don’t know all the numbers off by heart 🙂 it’s this one http://www.christies.com/spitfire/interactive/index.html
By: Zac Yates - 11th June 2017 at 02:23
Thanks Mark and MK959! Always nice to be kept up to speed with these things.
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