While there are many unhappy about this display of the P40 I can see the logic…. there are many vehicles, tanks on display outside painted up and patched rather than displayed as found. In many places around the globe as suggested India is one where a public display of a wreck is not appreciated by senior figures. I understand that there is a museum display inside telling the story of the pilot and other items.

As Andy notes, it is a great shame that the remains of the pilot have not been found.

Always admired the way this was presented and shared with thousands of people while Peter was owner, a credit to him amd his team..thanks.

Mark, Ken Broomfield of Charity farm Baxterley died in May 2014,his family have continued with the caravan storage and the airstrip is in use but needs caution due to varying grass heights ,hedges and trees on approach. The jackaroo has been sold and a Moth also moved on, less vintage there now,increasingly ultra lights and expensive modern plastic flying devices.

parts to keep the twin pin airworthy are rocking horse droppings, for example fire extinguishers for engines.

Mosquito…drawing with Halifax .

I wondered about the handling and here is an answer from Andy Sephton “From personal experience, there are similarities between the Spitfire and the Chipmunk, but it’s mainly emotional in that both are an absolute delight to fly. In practice, the Spitfire control harmonisation is not as good as the Chipmunk, it’s light in pitch and heavy on the ailerons. The Spitfire also suffers from pitch up at higher angles of attack, which the Chipmunk doesn’t. The Spitfire has more power with a relatively smaller fin/rudder so the torque and gyroscopic effects are more pronounced. It also has lot more inertia than the Chipmunk which can effect certain handling. “

Thanks for the update story link Propstrike,good read…..and…do not be given a false sense of security by engine age, you still need to practice force landings and keep an ear tuned to how an engine behaves before and during flight.