Updates Wanted On A Few Of Supermarine's Finest…

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By: QldSpitty - 23rd November 2015 at 01:00

Alec Wilson’s cache of parts/ projects

No word of anything there since Murray Griffiths passing.

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By: T J Johansen - 22nd November 2015 at 16:36

Thanks for the info so far. Anyone with more details regarding the other projects?

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By: MK959 - 27th October 2015 at 05:50

TB252 will not fly in 2016.

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By: Zac Yates - 27th October 2015 at 03:08

I used to help keep preserved aircraft information on Wikipedia current in my downtime at work, but after trying to update the TIGHAR page to include planned/publicised projects – and to mention they hadn’t recovered any aircraft – my IP address was banned.

Errol – that’s probably our best bet as the NZ Civ Air blog post mentioned 2016, and Wanaka is probably a real long-shot at this point.

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By: jbs - 23rd October 2015 at 09:00

By the way, how often is the Wikipedia page updated? We might hopefully get some further details here on the forum, and in real- time.

hi TJ,

I keep that Wiki page pretty up to date to be honest and was adding some more information to it only yesterday.

I try to keep rumour out of it and only make changes when things are ‘official’.

Hope it is of interest.

Link to Wiki page –> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Supermarine_Spitfires

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By: ErrolC - 22nd October 2015 at 23:44

Hopefully the completion timing is such that we can see it at a Warbirds Open Day at Ardmore before it heads home!

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By: Mike J - 22nd October 2015 at 23:17

Hurry up and finish it please. I’m currently sitting in my office 200 yards from the end of the runway at its new home, watching the spam cans fly over and wishing there was a Spitfire in the circuit.

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By: Zac Yates - 22nd October 2015 at 22:27

:eagerness: Happy to help. Last time I was in the AvSpecs hangar (March 2011) she was wrapped up in clear plastic awaiting her turn:

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By: T J Johansen - 22nd October 2015 at 21:14

Hi Ben.

I decided to start a Spitfire thread as they are few and far between here. Also, keep in mind that since the Spitfire isn’t such a sexy machine I’m all for trying to promote it from time to time… 😉

By the way, how often is the Wikipedia page updated? We might hopefully get some further details here on the forum, and in real- time.

Thanks also to K5054NZ for the info on TB252. This XVI has been in a jig for quite some time. Great to see it being worked on.

T J

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By: woodbridge10 - 22nd October 2015 at 19:15

Can never have enough Spitfires :eagerness:

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By: MK959 - 22nd October 2015 at 05:25

Hi TJ – no, an other Spitfire thread :very_drunk: – you may check the Wikipedia page about the Spitfire survivors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Supermarine_Spitfires

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By: Zac Yates - 22nd October 2015 at 04:07

TB252 is progressing well at AvSpecs here in New Zealand, here’s a photo and some info from August this year.