Just had a quick look; whilst I appreciate the idea of a database, it is now no longer possible to compare aircraft across a type/subtype, and the website itself is very clunky.

Perhaps it is early days, but I’m thinking the old paper one did a better job right now.

Bruce

That’s exactly what I thought when trying to look through it yesterday Bruce. When you call up a particular type, you have to go into each individual one to see which example it is, all the query returns is a list of, for example, everything to do with Avro Lancasters (chopped off noses, rear fuselages, complete examples) all lumped in together.

Clunky to the point of being almost unusable, I’d say. Very poor effort in this day and age BAPC, sorry. 🙁

It was certainly in the San Diego museum last year when I visited it, displayed in the space vacated by the P-40E that went to the Ford Island museum at Pearl Harbor.

Is this the ex Champlin Museum example? Seem to recall it was a ground runner in 98.

No, the Champlin one is an original example, and is now with Paul Allen in Seattle.

Sorry, it is still a ‘bitsa’ in my book. The only two originals are Paul Allen’s and the Dayton machine, any others are modern recreations.

Jeez, a ton of them kicking about for a not particularly significant type, aren’t there? Due of course to the mass disposal of them, rather than scrapping, by the USAF in the 1970s.

No, it was owned privately by Lord Lilford and placed on loan to Scampton, before being sold to the Pantons.

Andy

Peter Foote didn’t have a list of “missing” Burma/Indian Spitfires by chance did he!

Get your coat! 🙂

Fascinating stuff. I was rather saddened to read that they’re considering abandoning the restoration because it ‘only’ has an RAAF, rather than Canadian, history though. 🙁