Maybe they’re hoping to talk the value down, so they can buy it. :diablo:

20 flying each day according to Flypast and 22 present in total. I think your list is missing PL983, SM832, MK912 for the attendees.

MK912 was static only. According to the show report MK356 flew Saturday only and MK732 only on Sunday.

All made complicated by the fake Pearl Harbor codes on several aircraft.

AR213 is definitely not listed as present and I can’t recall any sign of AR614 flying while it was in the UK.

Tony Andrews

Huh, I’ve always had it in my head that 614 was present as static, ( I don’t think it had it’s permit to fly, yet) but I’m probably misremembering.

I can’t work out exactly what it is but appears to be something that was outside the aircraft on the other side of the hedge.

Landing gear breaking off.

The lancaster uses some original parts (including RCAF) from the cockpit area (glazing)and uses parts made for that BBC series on the reenacting the Dams raid with modern RAF personnel. I think it still belongs to Jeremy Collins (who owns the lanc nose often seen at Beltring).

It does raise an interesting provenance question though. Do we know which identity Kermit Weeks’ Lanc has? Did it stay as ‘976 or become ‘994 with the fuselage replacement?

What’s the orange aircraft on the left of the last pick?

It’s not to say that the work isn’t valuable, that the Spitfire isn’t a real Spitfire, but to say that a heavily restored Spitfire such as this is the same as, say, P7350, which while it has been restored, carries original skins, etc, is missing the point a little!

I don’t think it is. Which has value more? The object or the patina it has aquired?

Of ‘7350 and ‘9374, ’74 is probably closer to something that rolled out of Castle Bromwich 70 years ago. From that perspective its probably more “authentic” than the battered, corroded and dusty examples found in museums.

R6915 is another example. I had a good look at it last year and 30 years spent hanging from the IWM ceiling haven’t done it many favours. In fact, some of the cowlings look to be in danger of falling off and landing on someone’s head!

What happens when its time for it to recieve some TLC? Does the conservation work undermine its historical value? Even if it means R6915 lasts another 70 years?

Thanks, Jon.

*sigh*

Oh, for a Tiff and a Mossie… a Barracuda, too.