I’ve just trawled through the G-INFO list of Spitfires, and have created a list of aircraft that are a bit of a mystery. Anyone have any further information on these?

G-BXVI – XVI – RW386 – Wizzard Investments Ltd
G-BRAF – XVIII – HS877 – Wizzard Investments Ltd – C of A Exp: 23/09/1993
G-BYDE – IX – PT879 – Peter Teichman
G-CBNU – F.IX – ML411 – Mervin Aldridge
G- CDGU – Mk I – X4276 – Anthony Smith
G-CDGY – Vc – EF545 – Aero Vintage
G-MKIA – Mk I – P9374 – Spitfire Partners LLC, Italy
G-PRXI – PR.XI – PL983 – Aircraft Restoration Co – C of A Exp: 11/06/2001

CAA Unregistered Spitfires

SX336
TE311
SM520

I understand that TE311 is at Coningsby, so would assume that it’s the one currently under restoration by the BBMF. Any details of mark, and owner for other two please, and a Mark for the BBMF project?

Is PP972 for the UK or an overseas customer?

Cheers

Great photo! 🙂

I agree this is the most problematic part of the excercise. The chap that wrote the supplement was Peter Arnold I recall, you may have met him. He decided to sub-divide the term ‘airworthy’ in to different catergories and I think this was a good idea. However since then some of the aircraft in the airworthy/resting catergory (for example NH238) have not been active in over fourteen years and their inclusion as true airworthy examples may now have to be reviewed simply due to the passing of time requiring increasingly more effort and time to return an aircraft to flight.

Yep I remember it, it was a very good supplement. We have included TE184 as airworthy, rather than resting as it flew into Duxford not so long ago. 😉

TE566 is indeed under re-build. We had contact about two years ago from one of the guys involved with the project as they were looking for a header tank.

We only include active restorations in the UK only, so the three we list as under restoration are: (sorry a quick revision as I missed one! 😮 )

LFVb JG891 Historic Flying Ltd
XIVc RM689 Rolls Royce
Mk 1 AR213 Personal Plane Services/Sheringham Aviation

Resting is NH238 at North Weald, it’s C of A expired in 1993!

Any other restorations, we would like to know about so they can be added to our directory. We will need mark, serial, and location. 😉

I have a Minolta Dimage Z1, it’s not bad, but not up to the standard of the “Hubble space telescope” boys! 😀

Here’s a pic I took at Legends.

That’s superb news, I saw enough Phatoms cut up for scrap whilst I was at Wattisham in 1992/3 at least XV408 won’t suffer that indignity. 🙂

Couldn’t agree more Mr Jeepman, I bet they couldn’t say that about RIAT! 😀