There are maybe 15 Spitfire project s currently proceeding to an intended airworthy conclusion, many based on scant, but proven wreckage, thin but robust provenance, as the saying goes.
I gereralise somewhat, but some of these collections of remains would fit in the boot of your car. Even if you elected to display it, it looks like a bunch of scrap. Go to any of the volunteers museums, they all have a few of these on display. They are interesting up to a point, but you can only look at rusty bits for so long, frankly it is not very engaging.
As is well known, the CAA prefer the build of a Spitfire in 2024 to be hung on an existing airframe identify, as long as you have some verified remnants, just a bit of DNA to perpetuate the identity. Everyone knows it virtually all new metal and it’s fine.
Therefore, I refute your suggestion that the industry is willfully destroying substantial remains. The Forces may have a different code of conduct, and it is widely believed that the Navy scrapped their Firefly following the fatal crash at Duxford.
If civilian operators destroyed every airframe involved in a fatal, it would be a rather different scene.
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