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Re: Good Bye ML417/ Perhaps 'Au Revoir'

Posted by Stephen Grey on Mon Dec 10, 2001 03:06:19 PM

In reply top Good Bye ML417 posted by Benjamin Gilbert on Mon Dec 10, 2001 08:05:21 AM

: ML417 was officially de-registered 03/12/2001 and transfer
: red to United States of America.
:
: Benjamin.


Gentlemen,

Your Forum & its comments on ML417 have been brought to my attention.

Firstly, may I congratulate you on an outstanding choice of a/c picture to banner your Forum - EP120 & ML417. I am delighted to be associated with both. They have given me & others much pleasure & will continue to do so, wherever they are based. I am sure we can all appreciate that a Transatlantic exchange is valuable to we enthusiasts, wherever we are based & whatever our Nationalities. I have always tried to further that interchange & will continue to do so.

Secondly, may I compliment you on your Forum & its apparently lively exchanges.

Finally, for your information, ML417 is to be registered to "Chino Spitfire Ltd", so one can safely speculate where it might be based, for a while. I cannot entirely rule out that the aircraft may be seen again in Duxford.
As to TFC, it has the luxury & responsibilty of a MkV flier, a project, a MKIX project, a MKXIV flier & a XXII/XXIV project - surely it cannot be accused of abandoning the Spitfire, whilst refining its Collection?

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