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Ta Muchly Peter ........ :0)
Posted by Tony on Mon Feb 24, 2003 02:48:55 PM
In reply top Re: I'm sure this Spit is no longer derelict (Warning 122k ) posted by PeterA on Mon Feb 24, 2003 01:02:30 PM
Was sure I saw a piccie like it last year on the forum.
Oh well, the hunt for derelict examples of God's own warbird continues
Tony :0)
: : is it?
: No.
: TE578 (99% sure). The former pole mounted Spitfire inside
: the Israeli air base at Hatzor. It is 20-28 of the IDFAF a
: nd it even got as far as Cyprus painted as the original UB
: 425 enroute to Burma. It suffered technical problems and f
: or political reasons another Spitfire was requested to rep
: lace it. The replacement UB425 formerly 20-42 is incidentl
: y currently in the workshop at HFL painted as "UB424", its
: RAF serial still to be discovered.
: The photograph was taken in the 'compound' at the Hatzeri
: m museum near Beersheba and it has since been statically r
: estored and is displayed to represent "20-11/26" of Danni
: Shapira the Israeli test pilot who ferried that aircraft i
: n from Czechoslovakia on Operation Velveta II in 1948.