Beat me too it! 🙂

Well done to all involved – she looks great! Will we see her with the bounce markings on?

so of the airworthy spits we now have a I, II, V, VIII, IX, XI, XIV,XVI,XVIII and XIX, with a mk XXII waiting in the wings and also a swedish IV project if i’m correct!!!

Is there any other marks of spit which are intended to be put back into the skies?

Don’t forget the Seafire XVII…

Hopefully we still have a Spitfire XII, Seafire’s II(?), III, XV, 46 to see – maybe be one day. What a fantastic line up that would be, all in Mk number order… 🙂

Picture of her at the following link:

http://www.militaryairshows.net/spits/ba10p01s06.jpg

Thanks Mark 12

Seems to confirm they had 2 T9’s

So does that make the offical number 21 Tr9’s now.

Next question is what was its original serial number?

In Aeroplane this month, on pg 20, there is an interesting section on another potential Tr9 – G-15-75. Are you sure it is not this one rather than G-15-79 that your thinking about?

ML417 has certainly been converted back to single seat configuration. I believe some of it’s TR9 parts were used in the recent American 2 seater that has just flow (MH367?)

I remember the Article – sure it was in Aeroplane, must be 15 years ago at least. Detailed the story and had a dramtic picture of the aircraft in the subsequent high speed dive. I believe the article was written by or contributed by Flt Lt Powles.

The aircraft was PS852, and the flight was on the 5th Feb 1952 from Kai Tak. Apparently after completing his meteorological task, he decided to see how high his aircraft could go. He reached a height in excess of 51000 ft, then I believe had a problem with the pressurisation system which caused him to decend rapidly – I recall from the Aeroplane article a decent figure of 49000 feet in a minute, in which he reached about Mach 0.94. He recovered from the dive and landed safely.