His own records should/may be available from TNA (I purchased my grandfathers on line). Presume you have gone down this route already?

Some Seafire Marks corresponded directly to Spitfire marks (Seafire 1b = Spitfire Vb for instance), others had no obvious equivalent … If that helps … Which it probably doesn’t.

RIP.

There may also be a point that today’s juvenile freeloader could well be tomorrow’s family man paying to take his family to an airshow after the seeds of interest were sown by sitting and watching for free when he would never have dreamed of (or been able to afford) paying to go in.

One of the books on 617 Sqn describes dropping ‘tallboys’ or ‘Grand Slams’ from parked Lancasters. Can’t remember which one just now.

Brilliant, hope this leads to more live action 🙂

Why has nobody found a Spit or Hurrican in a similar state?

http://www.maltaviationmuseum.com/hurricaneIIA.asp

Are you including Meteor engines within that total? There may well be a few of them lurking around too.