The rumours may now be true! It seems that someone, maybe HFL/ARCo have acquired the Spitfire Mk.IX MH415 “N415MH” formerly of Connie Edwards Texas and is now a resident at Duxford.
Believe it with your own eyes, see the pictures at http://www.duxford-update.info/ for this impressive site’s latest update.
On first impressions, it looks as if the aircraft might be in need of some TLC, but i am sure if anyone knows how to treat a Spitfire right, the people at ARco/HFL will!!
Please bear in mind i am relying purely on back dated posts on other forums (Bradburger – WIX), and the up-to-date imagery at Duxford Update. Though it does seem, if you put two and two together, in this case, it might happily make 4!!
Here’s hoping!
A very excited (but sunburnt… Woodchurch!!) Spitfire fan! 😀 😀 😀 😀
By: Mark12 - 4th August 2003 at 15:14
I think you can assume for the time being that MH415 is still in Big Spring, Texas. Mr ‘I hate Spitfires’ was just being a little mischievous almost seeing the RAF serial ‘MH415’ when the Shoreham replica arrived.
By: Arabella-Cox - 4th August 2003 at 13:52
The previous thread was… http://www.keypublishing.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12968 although it didn’t really stay on topic for long… :rolleyes:
My interpretation is that the Spitfire in Robbo’s picture is a GRP replica (looks like they need to reposition the droopy cannon), and that it’s been at Duxford for a couple of months, possibly stored for some of that time. I didn’t see it at Legends, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.
No idea on the REAL MH415’s whereabouts, although a swift check on the FAA website currently shows the registered owner as “None”.
By: Niall - 4th August 2003 at 13:22
Hi all,
This is my first post to the Forum so be gentle with me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the fibre glass replica that was in the D-Day Museum at Shoreham.
Niall
By: DazDaMan - 4th August 2003 at 13:21
Surely it would have been at least rumoured on the flyvintage.com website? This lists most (if not all) comings and goings at Duxford, as well as a brief overview of warbird news from around the world (used to be www.duxford.org, I think).
The guy who runs it, Ben Rodgers, seems to have his finger on the pulse as far as all thigns Duxford are concerned – and there’s been no mention to date.
🙁
By: DazDaMan - 4th August 2003 at 13:15
Surely it would have been at least rumoured on the flyvintage.com website? This lists most (if not all) comings and goings at Duxford, as well as a brief overview of warbird news from around the world (used to be www.duxford.org, I think).
The guy who runs it, Ben Rodgers, seems to have his finger on the pulse as far as all thigns Duxford are concerned – and there’s been no mention to date.
🙁
By: Willow - 4th August 2003 at 10:19
Robbo,
sorry, but Mark12 is right. Your photo is most defnately of a GRP Spitfire replica. A good one, mind you, but GRP none the less.
Sorry to spread the bad news.
OK, so we’ve got a new GRP replica, but have we got the ‘real’ MH415 as well? There was a thread a few weeks ago about this subject. Does anyone know if it is really here?
Willow
By: Mark12 - 4th August 2003 at 09:01
Can I smell the whiff of Glass Reinforced Plastic?
By: DazDaMan - 4th August 2003 at 08:45
New Spitfire – MH415??
I posted on the Avi-8 board this morning, but the last time I saw a photo of MH415 (in the excellent Robert J Rudhall book Battle of Britain – The Movie), she wore 222 Sqdn markings as ZD-E, in full Battle of Britain-style markings – with no cannon!
Did Connie Edwards repaint her and fit cannons prior to export?
Damn, if only my lottery numbers came up earlier! 🙁
By: Mike NZ - 4th August 2003 at 01:56
The review of airworthy Spits in Flypast a year or so back said that this aircraft held the record as having been owned by the same person for the longest time but had not flown for some years – does anyone know more of its history?
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