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“new” Spitfire Registration in UK G-LEGD
MJ444 wreckage recovery approx May 2020 in Belgium

https://www.facebook.com/13664484900953 ... 899128704/



Spitfire MJ444
model: LFIX
factory: CBAF
engine: M66

9MU 5-11-43 83GSU 26-8-44 411S 21-9-44 410RSU 28-9-44 403S 19-10-44 443S 14-12-44 Hit by flak and abandoned nr St.Vith 18-1-45

Pilot E H Fairfield (Flight Lieutenant, RCAF) OK and evaded

Service No. J20018

https://443squadron.wordpress.com/categ ... fairfield/

MARK:
G-LEGD
CURRENT REG. DATE:
03-Feb-2021
PREVIOUS ID:
MJ444
DE-REG. DATE:

STATUS:
Registered

Edmund Harold Fairfield
1922–1998 Ontario Canada

That is interesting, thank you for posting. I see that the guy that it is registered to lives about 20 miles away from me, I believe that he had or has a Mk1 Spitfire registered to him too.

I see another data plate replica Spitfire on the horizon
But of course everyone will insist that it’s a real Spitfire and not a new build airframe with an original dataplate attached to it

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...it was a plane adrift beneath the moon moving serenely thru beams like an angel of the night .....fair as a song ........aloof from mortal dreams

I thought the same thing. Then I though "Sure will be nice to have another flying Spitfire."

It won't be exactly the same as when it left the factory!

I can hear the purist having a sad now. Good on that bloke for finding the remains and building a spitfire out of it.

Yawn...

Insert Fw190,s P51s,Me109s and pretty much all modern warbirds these days..All about how they advertise it.

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If the CO ask,s you to be Tail End Charlie...Just Shoot Him..A Piece of Cake

All depends on what you start with. If you have a lot of material I'd say rebuild. Its not a restoration. Nor is it a new build.

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'Coups De Foudre'
(511FS, 405FG watering hole), St Dizier, France 1944/45

It's been announced this evening that the wreck has been purchased by Aero Legends who will rebuild it as a Two Seater T9.

So now, whether it's a rebuild, a restoration, or a new build, it will now also be a conversion.

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Defending Stearmans on WIX since Jeff started badmouthing them back in 2005.

Spitfire rides are very popular over here, there are four different organisations selling all kinds of packages and they always seem to do a brisk trade, Aero Legends being one of them. If MJ444 is going to be so extensively rebuilt that it's going to fly again, then it may as well be as a two-seater.

My vote is for them to restore to flying. IT's fine if it doesn't have an overwhelming amount of original material. The most original Spitfires, like the most original WW I aircraft will someday be tucked away safely in museums never to fly again. At least this way it brings honor and attention to the guys that served in WW II. It will be flying for future generations that never knew the WW II generation or kids or grandkids of that generation.

Agreed!

As long as the Spitfires that have remained substantially intact since the war aren't converted - I imagine anyone proposing putting a back seat in MH434 would be hanged from the nearest lamp post (the original Vickers conversions are of course fine!). If somebody wants to build up a two seater from metal confetti recovered from a crash site, it's absolutely fine with me - and I would happily take a ride in one if offered!