This is the other airshow act from Jeff Boerboon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA-w8HjeY2Q (which also neatly pulls this thread back into the ‘Historic’ world…. :cool:)

I must admit that I would have preferred the Buchon canopy too…. it would have made it a bit more ‘special’ if you ask me.

Thank you for the confirmation. I’ve gone and done a bit of digging and found out that it was 2002 when these Spitfires arrived at Duxford. I somehow figured that they were all Mk.IXs or similar, I never realised that there were Seafires amongst them. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them in situ at Duxford, I wasn’t a frequent visitor back then (actually, that hasn’t changed :apologetic:).

Do you mean the BEA Bedford HA 110 van?

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Interesting to have a number, but I must admit that I somehow expected it to be higher. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how this compares to other ‘popular’ types at the end of the war?

Interesting, never seen this before. The post on the Airfield Research Group forums states that the tubes were mounted in place of the mid-upper turret, but the image in the thread shows the Radio Compartment, looking aft (the manual gear/flaps handles on the bulkhead confirm this for me, as well as the shape of the roof hatch). It would also account for all the electrical bits…

Edit: We’re on the same page Zidante, I just hadn’t seen your post yet.