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Re: Any recent news on the Syrian Spitfires
Posted by simon king on Sun Mar 17, 2002 03:17:26 PM
In reply top Re: Any recent news on the Syrian Spitfires posted by Ron Henry on Sun Mar 17, 2002 02:34:31 PM
Hello Ron
Syria bought 20 Spitfire 22s in 1953 for ?9500 each..........
16 survivors were discovered in 1967, 12 at Homs and 4 near Damascus - there is some question whether Syria must have topped up numbers as a result of attrition with surplus airframes from either the Egyptian or Southern Rhodesian Air Forces
I hope and believe that there are airframes still out there - perhaps time will tell.
There is a picture of one of these suvivors in Spitfire Survivors around the World by Gordon Riley and Graham Trant (Aston publications 1986)
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