Another Spitfire airborne
October 29, 2008
Following a six-year rebuild with Classic Aero Engineering at Thruxton, Supermarine Spitfire Tr.9 SM520 made a 15min test flight on October 17 with Jonathon Whaley at the controls. Built as a single-seat HF.IX in November 1944, it was rediscovered in a scrapyard in Cape Town during in the 1970s and moved to the UK in 1989.
This is just a taster — see December's Aeroplane magazine for the full news story.
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Supermarine Type 535