By: Rocketeer - 16th October 2010 at 16:49
Cheers old chap…we can only hope more survived than just my rather nice access panel. A few years ago, i acquired several pictures from Bicester…..very sad to see so many beautiful spits only a few years before i arrived on earth!
looking forward to the book!
By: Mark12 - 16th October 2010 at 15:19
I have got a gun access panel from this aircraft. Does anyone know if this aircraft really survived or is it hokum?!
Not Hokum.
This was a perfect high back MK XVI that the BBMF just dumped, along with TB308, in to the scrap area at Bicester circa 1960.
One wing was salvaged from this duo to repair the accident to NH238.
Not a survivor but it will feature in ‘the book’ Vol. II appendix under the section – ‘Spitfires that nearly made it’. This will look in depth at the very large number of Spitfires disposed of from 1960-1970.
Mark
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October 16, 2010 at 2:27 pm