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Re: So PP972.......

Posted by PeterA on Tue Nov 26, 2002 04:38:10 PM

In reply top So PP972....... posted by simon king on Tue Nov 26, 2002 03:30:44 PM

: .....perhaps no longer has the same owner as she did when
: she was bought in from France and......
: all the work that was done originally is possibly being do
: ne again for whatever reason.
:
: All that on top of having reportedly consumed parts of Sea
: fires NN136,NN467,RX166,Spitfire P9374, another unknown Sp
: itfire and a Merlin XX from a Lancaster along the way
:
: very interesting.........no doubt Father Time will tell as
: others can't!
:
:
: sk
Simon,
You have confused me.
This aircraft has been in the same family ownership, my namesake, since acquired from Jean Frelaut in 1988.
If it has parts from other Aeronavale Seafires it would not have been at the expense of those aircraft.
Typically Spitfires and Seafires that have survived are bound to have donated parts on them to keep them operational to the end of their military service.
I could, for example, find panels and cowlings from five different Seafire XV's on one of the aircraft released by the Burmese military.
Peter

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