Spitfire down at Enstone
 

https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=124200

RIP ;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-66586313 .

Light Aircraft down - near Enstone
 

Picked up via social media that a light aircraft has crashed today near Enstone, Oxfordshire. Early reports suggested it was a "spitfire" style aircraft. Perhaps a replica.

Thoughts are with family and friends.

Apologies Barry, I did search before posting but did not see your thread

Yes, SAC Spitfire lookalike. There are a couple based at Enstone.

Yep, looks like one of the local replicas. With a fatal PA-28 crash (i think) in Essex the day before and two fatal glider accidents last week, sadly British light aviation is going through a bad patch.

Detailed info here. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...fordshire.html

I am a retired PPL/MEP. It must have been him doing aerobatics above our village of Swalcliffe and Sibford, north of Enstone. I heard a plane doing aerobatics and went outside to watch. I saw him do a loop and on exit some rolls, after which time he flew out of sight in a south easterly direction. IT clearly had the shape of a Spitfire but not a Merlin sound. I can only assume it was him. RIP. When I was still flying, some years ago I went to Enstone to look at the replica's and I was very impressed. I wonder what makes these replica's hard to fly?> Is it a lack of warning prior to the stall? The pictures seem to show he crashed in a reasonably level attitude, does anyone know if he was on finals to land?

EDIT: I must have mistaken the date. My sighting was on the 21st.

The SASP appear to have been G-CLHJ, built by Paul Fowler and operated by the Molly Rose Group, painted as Spitfire I "R6800/LZ-N".

A few years back, one of these spun in during a turn onto finals after a display at an airshow not far from where I live. I wasn't there fortunately, but it shook me since I had a very pleasant conversation with the pilot when he paid us a visit in the aircraft only a few months earlier.

I think the accident was just outside Neat Enstone village which is about a mile south of the 08 end of the runway.

I don't see a right wing. Left wing and tail are there. Anyone else think the right wing is missing?

Maybe it detached in flight and landed elsewhere.

It's there folded back and up towards the fuselage - you can see it's obscuring the lower part of the roundel.

I see it now, thanks.

Judging purely by the damage to the aircraft, and the witness marks on the ground, it looks like it was spinning to the left on impact.