AFAIK she is still owned by a ferry company and operated from The Netherlands, both as a company plane and for airshows. She has been restored in recent years and seems to be in great shape.

Try this:http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/world_war_two_box_found_in_norwich_garden_could_wipe_out_most_television_in_the_area_1_1407184

Hmm, I learned something here…

I always thought this to be a NA-50 lookalike (the fighter version derived from the T-6 family) but had never twigged to the French Hellcat scheme. Perhaps I had it confused with this US based NA-50 ‘replica’ (which doesn’t look as good in my opinion): http://www.vg-photo.com/airshow/qb39/na-50.html

Anybody who can shed more light on this? Was it converted to be a NA-50 or a Hellcat??

Perhaps a bit of an elaboration might be useful for non-Dutch speakers:

This guy runs two forums, Nederlandseluchtvaart.nl for Dutch aviation news and discussions, and Simmerspaintshop.com, I guess for Flightsim enthusiasts. He’s had some issues in the past with people posting photos on the forums for which they didn’t hold the copyrights. There are rules which members agree to when registering but this doesn’t take away the problems. He’s had Google withdraw advertising (which helps pay for the site) from the forum for an apparent breach of copyright while the owners of the image (a screenshot from the Il-2 game) apparently haven’t filed a claim.

Now he has received a hefty bill from a lawyer for having had a photo on the site in the past. The copyright holder of this image has not taken the trouble to contact the site owner but went straight to a lawyer.

He is now taking the, understandable, standpoint that this is a bit too much for what was supposed to be a hobby, especially as the chances of it happening again are high.

If anyone is interested, he is willing to transfer the sites to someone who wants to keep them online.

I’ve just received news that XV104’s last flight has been delayed by a couple of weeks. As soon as I hear more it will become available on the news page I linked to above or, if you’re on Facebook, the website’s Facebook page (see link on front page of site).

If you want to model the NEI ones, then the two-seaters won’t be an option as they never left Holland. I’d say you need to get a copy of the second volume as mentioned above as that offers all you need. I’ll see if I can find mine and scan something for you but I won’t be able to scan the entire book.

I did a quick google and volume 1 is available through abebooks: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&bx=off&ds=30&recentlyadded=all&sortby=17&tn=Dutch+Spitfires&x=55&y=16

There are images of both books halfway down this page: http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/boeken/spitfire.htm
It lists a lot of Spitfire books (explanation in Dutch, you could try a google translation) including one about the ‘Indonesian Spitfires’ (by Nico Geldhof/Luuk Boerman) just below the Dutch Spitfires volumes. I don’t know this book myself but since its newer it could be easier to find.

Not really, it was lower than that ;):

I can let you have a XV103 photo if you’ll let me use yours for my website…. :D:D

No pics I’m afraid but I did remember this movie which may have a few clues in it (and if not, it is still fun to watch): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ppj0qALbAw

I just noticed that it is in two parts, here is part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3CQn5KM40