Spitfire R6915 Please don’t Repaint!

I hope that people are not actually suggesting that the aircraft will be refurbished by the IWM before going back on display, or that that is the planned intention of the IWM.
To suggest that the curatoral staff do not know the significance of the airframe is doing them a great dis-service.

I admire your certainty Robert.
This is one occasion that I desperately hope you are quite correct, and my gut feeling is very very wrong.

Unfortunately, given the money being spent, and the high profile nature of the refurb, I feel the pressure to spruce up this airframe for the grand opening of the new museum, will far outpace the curatorial niceties. Add to this the argument that it is in later wartime colours, and it is at real risk!

Only by making a noise now, and I emplore anybody who has the ear of the right people to try, can we try to get those responsible reminded of their obligation to preserve our heritage, and not pander to fashionable headlines.

I re iterate that this is one of two airframes in the world that retain their ‘Original’ wartime service paint scheme, and give us an opportunity to see a Spitfire as it really looked in WW2, and not somebody’s later enterpretation. This aircraft is the real deal, warts and all, and in my view, priceless and of World Heritage importance.
A repaint would be a tradgedy.
Guy