More Spitfires arrive at Biggin Hill

摘要

Two more Supermarine Spitfire Mk.lXs have arrived at the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar in Kent, where they are to be restored by The Spitfire Company (Biggin Hill) Ltd. The first to arrive, on November 13, was Spitfire LZ842. Work has already started on the 1943-built, former South African Air Force fighter. After retirement from military service, its forward fuselage was recovered and stored at the SAAF Museum for several years. It is now registered as G-CGZU in the UK. A few weeks later, on December 10, it was joined by TE517, a 1945-built machine currently on the civil register as G-JGCA.