I don’t think that this name change would succeed. I am certain that the name would be shortened in every day use to Mitchell airport (unofficially of course) and Mitchell airport already exists which could potentially be very confusing!!!.

Mitchell Airport, Milwaukee, WI, US. Named after one of their most famous sons…General Billy Mitchell. I stand to be corrected but I believe the B-25 was also named after him, they have a B-25 mounted outside the airport, and he was pretty much the father of the US Air Force as we know it today (didn’t he also get ridiculed by his superiors for predicting the attack on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese many years before it actually happened?).

That one is Roger Marleys example. The cockpit is built the same way as Shorehams was. It uses a mixture of recovered parts and scratch built. The rear fuselage and tail are completely scratch built and although I haven’t spoken to him in a while I believe that he recently took part in a recovery to get a Sabre engine for his project. Remarkable job…he told me he wasn’t going to go past the cockpit but he just can’t seem to stop!!! Don’t know if he is going to attempt the wings.

p.s. you may have seen it photographed in Flypast a few years ago at the Duxford Typhoon day…he bought it down specially for the veteran Typhoon pilots and he was rewarded with a photograph of Bee Beaumonts panel being held up next to it (R7752) and all the veterans signed the rear of the cockpit (you will see that it is always covered with plastic just behind the canopy)

The Shoreham cockput was completed using car old exhausts (with recovered brackets) and the measurements were not accurate.

The Sabre sold at the same auction was a very corroded sea recovery and remained in the UK, although where it is at the moment is anyones guess.