Beijing Museum Spitfire

I’m just back from a fabulous trip to Moscow & Beijing.

Ken

Great Photo’s, thanks. Of interest, a friend (Dave Gurton 55th Halton), when at Biggin Hill was given the task in 1955 to ” scour RAF stations for Spitfire parts”. When these were collected, they were then told to build 3 Spitfires for the proposed Battle of Britain Flight. No plans etc. but they were all experienced Riggers,etc. so were able to assemble the “Meccano sets” ( only problem was control cables under joystick) into 3 working aircraft. Besides this Mk XV1, he is sure there was a Mk X11 but can’t remember the last one. Not on Internet, he was so pleased to see photo’s I printed off for him. Incidentaly, I saw the original photo’ of this a/c was outside, maybe they brought it in recently to give it a wash & polish? ( I don’t know whether Beijing smog gets out that far?) dave55th