As we reported last August, the nascent Hunter Fighter Collection in Scone, New South Wales, Australia is embarking upon an ambitious project to restore a rare Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Ia (X4009) to flying condition. This effort recently […]
PRESS RELEASE Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s President & CEO, Dave Rohrer, at their 50th Gala on October 15th, announced the donation of three significant aircraft to their collection – a Supermarine Spitfire, Avro Canada CF-100 […]
For the past few years, our good friend John Parker at Warbirds Online has been following several important restorations at Vintage Fighter Restorations (VFR), a division of Pay’s Aviation in Scone, New South Wales, Australia. Here is his […]
Two aircraft made their “first” public displays at Shuttleworth’s Season Premier Airshow on Sunday 1st May. Although AR501 a Mk Vc Supermarine Spitfire Mk.V Supermarine Spitfire had been seen in previous years this season she […]
The Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar arranged a special reunion at their facility near London England this week between the world-renowned Spitfire historian, Peter Arnold, and the company’s two-seat Supermarine Spitfire Tr.9 TE308 – an aircraft […]
Most of us can only dream of flying in a WWII-vintage fighter plane, let alone the thrill of doing so in the hallowed airspace through which so many men flew them eighty years ago, and […]
There aren’t enough superlatives to adequately describe the Supermarine Spitfire… It is safe to say the type is easily as well-loved today as it was during its time at the forefront of piston-engined fighter aircraft […]
Following on from John Parker’s article earlier this week depicting the finishing touches which Vintage Fighter Restorations is applying to their Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX (MH603) at their facility in Scone, New South Wales, Australia comes the news […]
Our good friend John Parker from WarbirdsOnline in Australia recently put together a nice piece which focuses on a pair of significant, although often overlooked aviation museums located on the grounds of the former key Battle […]
The Spitfire was designed by Reginald Mitchell at the Supermarine factory in Southampton in the mid-1930s. A prototype flew from Eastleigh Aerodrome, now Southampton Airport, in March 1936. Even before the end of the war, […]
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