Great photo!
From http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/oo-stirling.pdf

c/n SH1536
PK181 DD 45 No RAF service recorded
DD 45 No.273 MU Polebrook, Northants
BT25. 8.47 DD28. 8.47 Airtech Ltd, Thame. (PHOTO)
Test flown 28.8.47 at Polebrook
OO-XAE DD29. 8.47 RD 3.11.47 (CofR No 738) Air Transport Co SA, Melsbroek
(Sold by “Transair” to the above)
Flown 21.4.48 to Shanghai, arriving 9.5.48 returned to Brussels with 29 passengers. On 27.7.48 left Blackbushe for Castel Benito and Cairo (Farouk Field, arriving 28.7.48 on 29.7.48 noted training Egyptian crews.
Canx 2.10.48 as sold to Tangiers Trading Cy
(for delivery to Egypt AF)

… and Stinson Reliants too.

Does any one know of the whereabouts of a Spitfire MK1 or MK11 that has a complete cockpit in either private hands or a museum in the UK. Presumably a replica as I don’t think there are any originals around or are there?
Many thanks

There are plenty of early mark Spitfires around, are you specifically looking for a replica cockpit section?

All the best for a swift recovery, hope nothing was too badly bent!

Was this not the reason Air Atlantique could not continue with their DC 3 passenger operations because of changes and EASA regulations that meant daft things like the aircraft would need escape slides and oxygen.Totaly daft I know but I think this was the issue that the DC3 fell into unfortunately.

Mike E

If I remember correctly it was intimated that derogation could be available but Air Atlantique chose not to persue it.

Convair 990 621 mph, VC10 580mph according to wiki. But also;

The performance of the VC10 was such that it achieved the fastest London to New York crossing of the Atlantic by a jet airliner, a record still held to date for a sub-sonic airliner; only the supersonic Concorde was faster

Cees’ point is a good one…substantial relics treated as well–perhaps as an appendix. That Hurricane hulk at Hendon comes to mind, as do some major bits that have remained here in Canada.

Some of the survivors listed in the Spitfire books seem to be little more than a firewall and an identity.