Spitfires leave UK for Australia and Turkey

The only single-seat Spitfire VIII in the UK, Maxi Gainza’s MV154/G-BKMI was flown from Duxford to Sywell on 4 May for dismantling ready for export to a new owner in Australia, where it is understood it will be repainted soon after arrival. Since completion of its restoration for Robs Lamplough in the 1990s, the fighter has been finished as MT928.Spitfire IX TE517/G-RYIX has been acquired by Ali Ismet Öztürk’s MSÖ Air & Space Museum at Sivrihisar, 85 miles south of