Quote from: causeway74 on Mar 06, 2026, 14:05It was the Spitfire birthday this week. Here's another bit of rare footage we found on a tape. Anyone know where this one ended up?

BBMF have her now it seems according to this website.

https://archives.wartimeni.com/article/the-enniskillen-spitfire

Quote from: JasonT1981 on Mar 06, 2026, 17:03

Quote from: causeway74 on Mar 06, 2026, 14:05It was the Spitfire birthday this week. Here's another bit of rare footage we found on a tape. Anyone know where this one ended up?

BBMF have her now it seems according to this website.

https://archives.wartimeni.com/article/the-enniskillen-spitfire

I saw that article but think it is out of date. It was likely only with BBMF for a short time.

P7832 is recognized as a surviving Spitfire, however there is no publicly available information confirming whether it is currently on display in a museum, part of a private collection, or maintained as an airworthy aircraft.

P7832 is the "Genuine" Enniskillen plane, but the plane in the video is P7350 which belongs to BBMF, and is the oldest flying Spitfire.

From what I can find P7832 was Struck of charge (SOC) 28/06/45 and supposedly scrapped.

This video must be from 1994 as P7350 went for a major overhaul in St Athan Wales and came out wearing this paint scheme around that time. It was the. Repainted 3 years later.

Some lovely old school footage here.  Thank you.

Interestingly, had a friend do work experience at Aldergrove in late 90s, with the RAF - said that they Wessex pilot and co-pilot would exit the cockpit while rotors were still coming to a halt...

Quote from: rookie on Mar 07, 2026, 10:17P7832 is the "Genuine" Enniskillen plane, but the plane in the video is P7350 which belongs to BBMF, and is the oldest flying Spitfire.

From what I can find P7832 was Struck of charge (SOC) 28/06/45 and supposedly scrapped.

This video must be from 1994 as P7350 went for a major overhaul in St Athan Wales and came out wearing this paint scheme around that time. It was the. Repainted 3 years later.

According to that article ,Jeffrey Quill took ownership of the Spitfire donating it to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in 1965. So that would contradict it supposedly being scrapped in June 1945. However I can`t find any other evidence of P7832 listed as a member of the BBMF Fleet as yet.

It`s a mystery Scooby -Doo.

I take it this was your source for the scrapping....

P7832    IIa        CBAF    MXII    6MU 1-1-41 SFPP f/l in bad vis overshot and hit obstruction Farnborough CB 12-1-41 F/O WC Potter safe 1CRU sas 20-1-41 72Sq 23-4-41 74Sq 9-7-41 Overshot into ditch Acklington AC 14-8-41 Sgt JB Edwards safe. ros 610Sq 8-9-41 340Sq 28-11-41 Belly landed in field Kirkmichael Keeper Cottage Ayr CB 30-1-42 F/O P Coignard (Fr) safe SAL riw 6-2-42 61OTU 28-9-42 Burst tyre on landing Montford hit by P7444 3-1-43 FSgt PH Closterman (Fr) safe 52OTU 7-5-43 Heavy landing broke port u/c leg Aston Down CB 28-7-43 Sgt WH Marriage safe. SAL Gosport 23-5-44 5PAFU 6-11-44 SOC 28-6-45

Re the footage of Langford Lodge open day in 1995 when Sally B visited, was there a similar day in 1996 when she came?

I remember going and the staff were letting you inside, but the queue was massive.

I also remember the grass had just been cut that week, it was a lovely sunny day, warm - when the choppers were leaving, the grass was going EVERYWHERE.  As you will have seen from 1995 footage, there was no real cordons up, people were free to go around and as close to the choppers as they pleased.