During early August it was confirmed that Supermarine Spitfire IXT MH367 has been acquired by Ultimate Warbird Flights at Sywell from Doug Brooker/Warbird Adventure Rides at Drury, near Auckland, New Zealand, and will join the UK’s most famous two-seat Spitfire, ML407, on the operator’s pleasure-flying fleet.
Over the space of just a fortnight, the world’s airworthy population of Curtiss SB2C Helldivers increased by two thirds with the post-restoration maiden flight of Jim Slattery’s SB2C-1A, BuNo 75552, at Colorado Springs on 8 August, the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum SB2C-5, BuNo 83393, having flown at Granite Falls, Minnesota on 22 July.
10th October 2024
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