…Gee, You could blow me away with a feather…. That pic looks like it was taken yesterday !…thanks again for great info.

…Well that looks more like it ! .. Thanks Mark12. Is LA 464 being restored to flight ?…I had read about the blades being quite problematic on these late mark birds due to age and shrinking of the propeller roots ??

Yes Jagan .. It certainly looks like an “inside” job emanating from Kharagpore….but it still doesn’t explain how the tailplane fillet fairing ended up with SpitfireSpares..

…Even if the fillet fairing stayed with the fuselage, it in itself has been “nicked”, to be able to come to the market 25 years later !!

…I hope I’m not being too naive (or at least overly optimistic)….. What are the chances an unscrupulous so-and-so on sells something knowingly not theirs to a totally innocent third party ?. The third party eventually becomes aware of these misdeeds, but the money is gone, the “new” owner now has a moral issue, the head is buried in the sand, and from here it’s a game of cat and mouse ( possibly with a fair sprinkling of tact and diplomacy) to right the wrongs. This must have surely happened in the past, and is bound to occur in the future….

….What a mess if that’s in fact the case here….Caveat Emptor !!

…What has me utterly perplexed, is/was the need for a Mk X1V / XV111 tail group for any Australian restoration…this style of empennage just simply could not suit anything under restoration in Australia ?

…. There is but one Mk X1V, and apparently the vestigial remains of the smashed Mk XV111 recovered from Nth America only recently to focus all eyes on … just a bit obvious I would’ve thought !

Hi All .. I hope I’m not stirring the pot too much, but could SpitfireSpares (or their supplier) explain how they may have (inadvertantly) come by the tail fillet fairing for this a/c ?

…..It’s advertised on their website as coming from TP 367 (HS 669), along with a mod plate for the Mk XV111.