New Spitfires Found

[astroron (Ron)]

Some may remember the thread about digging up Spitfires earlier this year,See thread Here well some have been discovered in Burma and are to be recovered
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-1...-burma/4321436
So it seems there may be other stashes of spitfires around the world just waiting to be found
Cheers

[astroron (Ron)]

(quote) from Merlin66 (Ken)
Sounds interesting....
Unfortunately there are no records either in "Spitfire International" or the definitive " Spitfire - The History" which show any significant transfers of Spitfires to Burma, nor is there a "missing" block of serials.
Many were sent (but not used during WW2) to India (11 Sqd.)

If these were there, then why would Burma in the mid 50's buy second hand MkIX's from Israel????
There were some 957 MkXIV produced and at the last count there were 19 known survivors (FlyPast Special - "Spitfire70" p61)


Ken this is an answer to your statement above .
Cheers

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[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Very cool Ron. Lookig forward to new developments

[Nico13 (Ken)]

Yep be very interested in seeing the outcome, would be great if it's all true or even partly and only a few are found.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

An iconic aeroplane-be nice to have a few more around

[AstroJason (Jason)]

60 of othem?! And they are unassembled in crates, so they all might be in pretty good condition. Great story Ron, thanks for sharing!

[pixelsaurus (Mike)]

A little off topic except this clip has a Spit along with a Kittyhawk, Mustang and the worlds only flying DH Mosquito.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUU7h...feature=relmfu

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Hmmm
Looks like a re-run of previous reports.
Nothing concrete, no specific details.....
The jury is still out.

[MikeyB (Michael)]

WWII Spitfires digging team leaves for Burma (BBC News, 05-Jan-13)

[MikeyB (Michael)]

A £1 MILLION ($1.5 million) expedition to find Spitfires allegedly buried in Burma at the end of World War II has ended in embarrassment, disappointment and recrimination.

Dogfight begins over failure to find Burma's buried Spitfires