Can anyone identify this Spitfire (in India)?

But which one is he?;o)

Brilliant:highly_amused:

You would hope so given that is Mark12 in the picture!

Jon

But which one is he?;o)

I removed the tail group so that the package would fit in the anticipated 40′ container.

Export license issues, in the hands of the new owner Jeet Mahal, delayed final export by many many months.

I lodged the tail group in safe keeping internally in the hands of one of the aeronautical professors, however when the aircraft finally arrived in the UK the tail group was missing and nobody could explain this.

I assumed it had been misappropriated by locals for scrap metal, however in 2008 I had a first hand account that the tail group has been sighted in the workshop of an Antipodean Spitfire workshop.

Extremely disappointing and shame on you.

The value of the project was effectively halved without the tail and it was sold off at a considerable loss and remains in Store in France.

Mark

A wee bit more from another forum message thread of note, I mean notoriety:

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?116104-Burma-Spitfires-Abandon-hope-all-ye-who-enter-here…/page100

You would hope so given that is Mark12 in the picture!

Jon

I suspected that was him, but having never met him, wasn’t certain.

Thaks for the answers, Google has filled the gaps.

I’m making the assumption that someone on here (Mark12?) will know what it is!

You would hope so given that is Mark12 in the picture!

Jon

Looks like the Spitfire MK.XVIII TP367 that I recall had its tail section stolen before recovery by Jeet Mehal in the early 1990’s