Happy Birthday Brian!

I assume he means BAPC

Whoever picked a pink one to go on the cover? Looks dreadful!

No, it is a restoration shop, so the stock is there to supply parts as they overhaul engines for customers

Unlikely, as Ken purchased his stock from another Merlin restorer who was exiting the business. It certainly wasn’t a ‘barn find’. A fascinating place though, he gave me the grand tour when I visited a few years back.

Not if it gets stopped from your pocket money, it doesn’t!

That would have been the value it was held on the RAF Museum’s books at. If you look at their accounts the total book value of ‘Heritage Assets’ is some £20m. This, of course, is considerably less than the amount the entire collection is likely to fetch if it were to come onto the open market.

A casualty of the the ‘Arab Spring’.

To be fair, this all happened some time after the ‘Arab Spring’, and the political situation in Egypt had already been in turmoil for a year or so by then.

The Spitfire is certainly NOT still at Stafford! Neither is it a ‘million quid airframe’ – a quick view of the RAF Museum’s financial statements (available on the web) for the year in question is quite instructional on that particular point. 🙂