I doubt you’d find the hercules engines needed, you’ll be competing with several Beaufighter projects for starters! I’d try a recover all the bits of Mk.Ic L7775. East Kirby has the wings, the tail was at Morton-in-Marsh (I forget where it’s gone but it’s still about). one of the Pegasus XVIII engines is at Brooklands with quite a few fuselage bits, the other is at East Fortune and if they’re not enough, Filton has a couple, Hendon has another one and there is another in the aeroengine collection at Turin Polytechnic: Hows your Italian? 😀 I did have a list of turret locations but not to hand. I can only recall the Warwick tail turret at Duxford atm, but all you’d need is definitely out there.

That lot would give you an identity and the basis of an airframe. All you’d need then is storage, aspirin and great deal of time and money! 😉

Mk.II had a Merlin XII and dozens of minor mods and improvements, many of which had been incremental updates on the Mk.I. The most obvious visual difference would be the Rotol props very rarely seen on the Mk.I (outside of 54 Squadron who acted as OEU for them.)

Far from unidentified, Staffellied! The Spitfire on the beach is P9374.

Any captions to the reverse of the other German photos? Something doesn’t look ‘right’ for Spitfire, but I am viewing this on a small screen at present.

Blenheim (I think).

Thanks, Tom.

Thanks, Clint.

Poor Miles Master.

Too much like a sensible idea!!
Is there any Mustang in the UK in RAF markings? I’ve viewed a fair amount of footage of RAF Mustangs in combat, during the 7 years of the gun camera ‘project’, but it frustrates me that there isn’t a single Mustang in RAF colours.
There are a couple down under (?) and I know that the VWC Mustang Mk IV is painted in period markings of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s 442 Squadron, which funnily enough, I have been viewing footage of this very day (albeit flying Spitfires prior to converting to Mustang IIIs) but there is also 19 squadron and 65 squadron Mustang seen today.

Sadly the £92 million didn’t come my way, so my dream of a Mustang III will have to wait…

RAFM’s policy of painting US aircraft only in US schemes has always puzzled me. Especially so in the case of the 8th AF marked B25!

I don’t think ‘The Tank Farm’ (Littlefield’s operation) was ever a public museum as such, but was open to pre-arranged groups for private tours

Yes that’s correct. Littlefield’s collection was never a museum while he was alive and never really became one. The plans to turn it into a museum were to help maintain the collection after he died but it never got sufficiently off the ground.