Thanks for keeping up the heat on this scammer. We in the preservation scene here in the US have known he is a joke for decades. Tighar have never actually recovered a single airplane as far as I know . 

 The right seater Frank Wright , the Museum Principal had gotten his twin rating in 2020, not the captain. The captain has been flying for decades. Mike Gilles the captain’s record is on Linked in, but I can’t seem to post the link. At one point he flew for Eastern Airlines -1989-1991 it states . 

Since most movies are fiction , even the ones based on reality, this fits perfectly! 

Daisy Grace has confirmed it on the Grace Spitfire FB page. Dreadful news. It’s never a good sign to see someone’s name as a forum subject and I knew what this would be about . Thanks for letting us know also. It had not been posted anywhere else but here. 

This is only the same paperwork as 30 years ago. It’s not the same airplane .  Mike posted this on WIX and I was told this also by someone in the business.  And thinking about it,  a lot can be rebuilt ,  but that thing was totalled in 1990. Destroyed. 

Mike’s post: 
 

“The aircraft which crashed on Tuesday was essentially a different one altogether from the 1990 one. After the crash it was parted out, the power wing fold mechanism going into an ex-Iraqi Fury in New Zealand. The ‘new’ WG655 was built up from mostly ex-Iraqi parts, using very little from the original other than the identity and paperwork. Some of the bits from the original ended up in various other rebuilds, some are still stored with Sanders at Ione.”

Yes the male Italian was Flying it. I’m not sure why his wife is listed as the owner – I thought he was. Who knows.