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Re: Spitfire TD314 and Seafire PP972 - Clarification?

Posted by PeterA on Sun Oct 20, 2002 11:53:46 AM

In reply top Re: Spitfire TD314 and Seafire PP972 posted by Tom on Sun Oct 20, 2002 11:23:23 AM

Tom,
Chris Warrilow and Steve Atkin's Seafire fuselage RX168 departed Hull Aero for Hurstbourne Tarrent in November 1998 and from there to 'the West Country' in July 2001. David Arnold's Seafire PP972 arrived at Hull Aero in July 2000 from Earls Colne for further rectification work to the sheet metal and I suspect is still there or there abouts. Matt Sattler's Mk IX TD314 , an ex SA Metals front fuselage from South Africa, arrived at Hull Aero on 25 November 1994 from Canada as a temporary import. Here it was totally rebuilt as a pristine fuselage. Latterly reconfiguration to mk V status has been considered which means probably no more than a change to the engine pickup forgings on the front firewall. Still there or there abouts in my records.
Peter

: Ahhhh, confusion is rife in good ol' Norfolk ;) As far as
: I know the Arnold machine is elsewhere as it wasn't there
: a while ago and I can remember seeing it in Flypast at som
: e other rebulid shop on an airfield somewhere. The Matt Sa
: dler machine is the really confusing one as there was the
: ex-Irish AF Seafire III under rebuild there for the then o
: wner Chris Warrilow but I was told that "some Canadian fel
: ler" had just bought it, is this Matt Sadler? I didn't kno
: w of TD314's existance until now and was just putting 2+2
: together from what was memorable, though there is no MKIX
: being 'tweaked' into a MKV at present there as far as I kn
: ow. Tell me more lads!
:
: Tom ;)

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