Your chance to buy a Spitfire........
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Your chance to buy a Spitfire........
I was sad to learn recently that the d/day RAF museum at Shoreham airport is closing and all the contents are to be sold off.
There is a Spitfire outside a full scale replica complete with a small motorbike engine to make the prop turn..!! This is being sold/auctioned and the minimum bid is £7000. Everything is being sold, there are loads of things all to do with the war.
All the details are HERE and look down for the Museum of d-day aviation link.
There is a Spitfire outside a full scale replica complete with a small motorbike engine to make the prop turn..!! This is being sold/auctioned and the minimum bid is £7000. Everything is being sold, there are loads of things all to do with the war.
All the details are HERE and look down for the Museum of d-day aviation link.
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At the other end of the scale there was a short piece on BBC Look East last night about a Canadian guy who has bought one of Historic Aviation's Spitfires (MK 912) for £1.2 million. Apparently he's just won $240 million from Disney in damages. With that sort of money he could probably buy ALL the surviving Spitfires. Oh and he bought a Harvard so he could get up to speed before checking out on the Spitfire. Envious.....Moi?
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If he received US$240 million from Disney in damages (presumably for personal injury?), I'm surprised that he is in good enough shape to pass a pilot medical examination!
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He is a charming gentleman and is in an acquisitional frame of mind.
MK 912 is going to a very good home and will have appropriate hangar companions in due course.
I HAVE SAID TOO MUCH!!
MK 912 is going to a very good home and will have appropriate hangar companions in due course.
I HAVE SAID TOO MUCH!!
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Why presume it was personal injury? In fact the legal case was about exploitation of intellectual property.BBC news report refers...
Why presume it was personal injury? In fact the legal case was about exploitation of intellectual property.BBC news report refers...
