Daz, that would be SM520?

Yes could be Laurie, Y11F – look at the big box of cleaning supplies he brought with him – very dedicated!

Yes that is EE606 arriving at the Duxford airshow (June 10th ?) 1989. John Lewis was flying her. Only other show appearance was at an RAF base Families day the morning of the day she was lost (1st July 1989). Dave Southwood flew her that time.

Daz, the correct details are in my earlier post – repeated above (although I was one day out for the Duxford show date which was in fact the 11th). The accident was not on the way back from Duxford but some three weeks later.

The lovely shots of ‘EE606’ bring back some great memories of that wonderful Sunday at Dx. Thanks for posting them Moondance.

Same with PL965, just the D-Day stripes that are not right.

I suppose there is a good reason for the rather ample, yellow gentleman to be enjoying a Spitfire ride. Was the two-seater not available?

Yes – he was preventing a propstrike (all three of them in fact)!!!

Re Ham Standards-
I’m FAR from expert – No Spits with Hamilton Standards. But I think there were some Buchons with Ham Std props (ex DC-3?) including G-HUNN(?) and there was a Spitfire in the Battle of Britain filming with a Buchon prop… So, in theory… But that was then, and this was now. Mark, can you correct/polish/elaborate/dismiss? 😀

G-HUNN certainly flew (and probably still does) with a three-blade Hamilton Standard prop. The four blade Buchon props were specially produced by Rotol and yes, were interchangeable with a Rotol Spitfire type 4-blade prop. There is a published picture of Spitfire TE308 wearing one to prove it.