The Spitfire goes to sea. Airframe assembled at Chattis Hil, first flown 25 October 1941. Served with American-manned No 121 Sqn, RAF. Fittted with tailhook to train Seafire pilots with FAA by October 1942. Served at least until 30 July 1944 with several accidents. Picture from Dutch archive but probably without Dutch connection. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

This replica was made for a TV series, James May's Toy Stories. It is an up-scaled Airfix model, as far as practically possible, and was put together by children from a local school. Whilst it does not stand really close scrutiny, it does look pretty good!

This Spitfire replica, resides in the 'Wings Of Liberty Memorial Park', at RAF Lakenheath. It is painted in the colours of 71 "Eagle Sqn".

Undergoing major maintenance

Dropped in for a refuel en-route to a display in Scotland.

Built at Woolston in March 1940 as P9374. Forced landed at Calais 24 May 1940 and sunk into beach sands. Re-emerged in September 1980 and recovered in January 1981. UK registered in 2000. Fuselage under rebuild by Airframe Assemblies Ltd in a yellow jig frame for accurate assembly. The lower panel in the foreground was the only original skin suitable for re-fitment due to extensive salt water corrosion of the remainder. The workmanship at this facility is superb and the historic accuracy is very important to the dedicated team. Each fuselage can take several years to complete. To N92SQ in 2017