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It was privately owned by Oldmans Township Airport Authority, Inc. [1] The airport was known as Old Mans Airport [2] until it was renamed in 2001 to Spitfire Aerodrome, after being purchased by Spitfire Aerospace Technologies, Inc., until 2021. [3] The airport closed was closed in 2023 to make way for warehouse development. [4]
Originally built in 1944 at Castle Bromwich under construction number CBAF10164. Found in a Scrap yard in South Africa in the 1980’s and restored to airworthy condition in 2008. Owned and operated by Spitfires.com, based at Goodwood Aerodrome, West Sussex and Solent Airport, Hampshire for Spitfire experience flights and Spitfire pilot training.
Dorothea Barron and Robbie Hall were treated to the flights by a charity for veterans. Second World War veterans celebrate their 100th birthdays with Spitfire flights Skip to main content
In 1946, the squadron reformed at RAF Church Fenton, then moved back to Yeadon. 609 was once again a squadron manned by part-time civilians using front line fighters, this time the Mosquito NF.30 night-fighter and later, when the squadron changed role to that of a daylight fighter squadron, the Spitfire LF.16.
The plane was eleven days old, having come off Lockheed's California manufacturing line on September 18, 1959, and had only 132 hours of flight time. The flight crew consisted of 47-year-old Captain Wilson Elza Stone, 39-year-old First Officer Dan Hollowell, 29-year-old Flight Engineer Roland Longhill and three flight attendants. All six crew ...
Flying the Spitfire Crook participated in the Battle of Britain, flying with No. 609 Squadron RAF (at the time this was a squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force). He initially joined the squadron on 22 September 1938 as an acting pilot officer, [1] this rank was confirmed on 4 May 1940, [2] and later further back-dated to 9 December 1939. [3]
Stephenson's Spitfire, 'N3200 QV', performing at an air show in 2017. The 44-year-old pilot had flown several thousand hours in fighter aircraft, both piston and jet powered, during his 20-year RAF career. He had piloted virtually every type of British jet fighter including Meteors, Venoms, Hunters and Swifts, as well as USAF F-86s. He was ...
The final development of the Spitfire was the Supermarine Spiteful and its naval version the Supermarine Seafang which retained a Spitfire-like fuselage, married to a new straight-tapered laminar flow wing, which gave Smith the opportunity to fit a wide-track inward-retracting undercarriage. [9]