MK IX Spitfire by Crabbycabby
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The Spitfire TR9 G-ILDA was built by Vickers Armstrong in 1944. It was an AH Mark 9, delivered to 33MU on the 23rd Oct 1944. Its serial number was SM 520. SM 520 was sold to the South African Air Force in 1948 (its SAAF history is unknown). It was discovered in a scrap yard in Cape Town in the 1970s, and purchased by Charles Church. Mr Church started to restore SM520. When he died in 1989, it was sold to Alan Dunkerley, who resold it to Paul Portelli in June 2002.
Classic Aero Engineering Ltd. (CAE) was contracted to restore SM 520 to its original Vickers specification.
Comments (7)
Great capture of this beautiful aircraft and interesting background info!
Awesome POV- thanks for sharing! :)
Selina Photography™
Another corker, Steve! You are brilliant at flying things!
Yep indeed a sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet corker.
nice one my friend
Classic spit lines!
The spitfire had/has such a sleak look to it, very stylish in design for its time.