Biggin Hill – 15th April 2007

Lovely set of pics, especially the Spitfire and the Challenger bizjet. Did you have a special arrangement to get airside access or did you have a particularly good zoom lens? When I visited Biggin Hill last month I was made very welcome at the RAF Chapel and at Pilots Friends, but neither location provided particularly good photo opportunities.

Glad to see Peter is earning enough money to pay for it. Last time I worked with him back in the mid 90’s we had to give him the dry stores at the end of each flight as he couldn’t afford the tea bags to take to his hanger!! 🙂

Yeah Its Based at Biggin and is know Spirt of Kent;) Its Kent own spitfire 😀 Glad the owner is an airline pilot to help pay for it to stay in the air.
Fab shots there.
James

If you are going to try to correct me James I would suggest you at least spell correctly! :p The name of the aircraft (as written on its fuel tank cover, is indeed ‘Spirit of Kent’), however it is known as the ‘Kent Spitfire’ and if you take a look on the website http://www.kentspitfire.co.uk/ you will see that name written in large type, twice, on the home page! 🙂

Its TA805 (G-PMNE). Owned by Peter Monk, it flew for the first time, post restoration, on 7th December 2005. Now based at Biggin and known as the ‘Kent Spitfire’.

Yeah Its Based at Biggin and is know Spirt of Kent;) Its Kent own spitfire 😀 Glad the owner is an airline pilot to help pay for it to stay in the air.
Fab shots there.
James

Tell us more about the Mk 9, is it flying yet?

Its TA805 (G-PMNE). Owned by Peter Monk, it flew for the first time, post restoration, on 7th December 2005. Now based at Biggin and known as the ‘Kent Spitfire’.

I saw it at Duxford and Shoreham in September 2006, not sure how long it has been airworthy again for though.

Tell us more about the Mk 9, is it flying yet?