http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?p=144954#post144954
I don’t use this forum much, but this thread caught my eye, I’ll go back and keep a watch on it I think……
By: DavidIsby - 19th April 2012 at 15:40
No evidence that PLAAF Spits existed
Looking into this, still no evidence that Chinese Spitfires are not a myth.
There MAY (and I have not gone looking for the source in the archives) have been an origin in a mis-identification (P-51s?) by UK travelers/diplomats in the PRC in the early 1950s.
I would be delighted to be proved wrong on this.
By: G-ORDY - 29th March 2012 at 20:52
TE330
The Chinese Aviation museum at XiaoTangShan near Beijing has a Spitfire XVI – at least that’s what it looks like in the photo in the brochure I purchased.
It has RAF camouflage, coded HT – B and the serial starts with TE….
Unfortunately at the time of my visit in November 2010, it was not on display and I have no idea of its provenance….
Ken
TE330 – bought at auction for NZ$2.6m in 2008 and gifted to the Museum by a Hong Kong-based businessman. One of the original members of the BBMF (http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/history/historyrafbbmf.cfm). Full illustrated history in Volume II of our magnum opus – available later this year 🙂
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