£1 Million to spend

Originally posted by Bruce
Guys

1m wont go very far at all on a flying aeroplane. The cost of restoring a Spitfire from a wreck is very nearly 1m alone. And thats by people who know what they are doing.

How much would it be for people who don’t know what they are doing???? 😀 😀 😀

‘course, I meant the RAF Museum at Hendon, thanks David.;)

Guys

1m wont go very far at all on a flying aeroplane. The cost of restoring a Spitfire from a wreck is very nearly 1m alone. And thats by people who know what they are doing.

With the learning curve and all, 1m would probably restore half a Tempest….

So I would sink my money into museums. No prizes for guessing which one!

Bruce

Does the IWM have a Defiant and Tempest V ?

The IWM Defiant so needs to fly, so does the Tempest V, failing that, Black 6……………..;)

Janie

I’ve been to many lectures given by veterans, but I get as much, or more enjoyment/education out of listening to them talk to each other about war times. They go back to being young 20-somethings at the meeting. It can be very amusing.

I could’nt agree more, they tell stories and I sit there thinking ‘amazing, brave’ and they think it was ‘normal, nothing special, anyone could have done it!’ We owe these guys a great deal. Keeping our aviation heritage is one way of keeping these memories alive and showing our gratitude. And lets face it we love to see thses warbirds flying.

ps Spoke to Graham Warner last night, at this stage he thinks the Blenheim will take 2 years to repair.

Sorry guys & gals, Just a small thing to some, but a big thing to me, A Spitfire is a Spitfire NOT a Spit, a spit is what you see on a pavement having had a nasty taste in your mouth!
(Geoff retires with a tin hat!) 😉

Are you seriously suggesting that they put a building on Duxford airfield which is in keeping with the rest of the buildings there???

At the Lelystad airshow I have seen a stand of a group that wants to rebuild a Fokker G-1. That would be a good airplane to rebuild. Something odd instead of yet another spit. (don’t get me wrong though, I love spits)

I’ve got a feeling they were stored at Abbott’s boilerworks in Newark at one stage?

As Mark said, Peter Arnold had one of them, but I think they were both jointly owned by Peter Arnold and Neville Franklin when they were at Newark.

Originally posted by Mark12
LA546 & LA564 both.

Mark

I remember seeing one of those in a shed in Newark many many years ago. It was in a pretty poor way then. Seem to remember there was a bit of controversy over the ownership of the aircraft at the time.

I think one went to Peter Arnold the Spitfire historian?

I think we need to start a Seafire thread!

Yak 11 Fan,

That is correct. Craig Charleston still has the front end and identity of LA546.

Peter Arnold owned LA564 for many years until he sold it and his Mk XII EN224 to an undisclosed party on his retirement last year.

Mark

Originally posted by Mark12
LA546 & LA564 both.

Mark

Thanks Mark,

I thought those were the serials but as my world is inside cardboard boxes at the moment I wasn’t sure. Any idea where they are now? Didn’t Craig Charleston have one of them at one point?

LA546 & LA564 both.

Mark

Something like that, big Griffon powered beasties.

Course, you’re right. My mistake.

They were 46s, weren’t they.

Don’t think so, wasn’t that LA546 and LA564 (or something along those lines) I suspect that somebody here will know.

VP441 was at one time owned by the Confederate Air Force and by Reflectaire before that.

It could be interesting to see it back in the air one day.

Originally posted by Mark12
Yak 11 Fan,

The Seafire 47 VP441. Ministry of Aircraft Production colour standards – ‘Grey Green’, it is not.

The aircraft has been ‘Americanised’ in quite a few areas.

I have no idea of the plans for the final finish but am keeping my fingers crossed.

Mark

Is that one of the Seafires that Neville Franklin jointly owned with some other chap (can’t remember his name right now)?

£1 million isnt enoth for one of those Me 262s ! 😀 😀 i dont think the CAA would allow one to be based in the Uk. If i had the money i would buy either a hurricane, Me109, or get flugwerk to build me a Focke Wulf 190 D-9!

Or my last crazy idea, get Hawker restorations to build a hawker Typhoon?

Yak 11 Fan,

The Seafire 47 VP441. Ministry of Aircraft Production colour standards – ‘Grey Green’, it is not.

The aircraft has been ‘Americanised’ in quite a few areas.

I have no idea of the plans for the final finish but am keeping my fingers crossed.

Mark