Want to buy a Spitfire?

My high-school ambition was to own a Spit. I think they sold for US$1-200,000 in those days. However, a Mark I would probably be much rarer than, say a Mk. IX or Mk. XIV.

On the same note, how much would it cost to fill the tanks today? Or do a major overhaul on a Merlin? It's gotten to be like yachts. If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
 
Or you could buy the mk26b replica for 300k and build it.... not quite the original, but a more affordable option. Builds not insanely hard either but not for a first timer either.
 
nugunner said:
My high-school ambition was to own a Spit. I think they sold for US$1-200,000 in those days. However, a Mark I would probably be much rarer than, say a Mk. IX or Mk. XIV.

On the same note, how much would it cost to fill the tanks today? Or do a major overhaul on a Merlin? It's gotten to be like yachts. If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
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IIRC the cost of a rebuild is about $250,000.00 US. There is an American outfit that does the engines for VERA the Lancaster at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.
 
I have to admit Id love one if wishes were kisses, as they say. Whatever happened to that pile of spitfires in Burma that the British supposedly burried rather than ship them back to the UK?
 
Donny Fenn1 said:
exposed as a scam (or at least they weren't buried where dude claimed they were)...
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Ha! No kidding? Simply amazing. Right up there with was there a shooter on the grassy knoll. I guess I need to dig into that story. There must be money digging up the war relics or it wouldn't have that mystic.
 
The 1940 Hurricane for sale at Platinum Fighters (credited with 5 kills during the Battle of Britain) is a steal at 1.95 million pounds....But deal pending...Agghh, missed out again.:)
 
knotking said:
If we're opening up the floor to the warbirds, 1939-44, I'd take a Ju-87D please. Give them seagulls some payback.
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To play this game, you have to want a particular aircraft that is currently on sale. One that in a perfect and privileged world, you could walk up to day-after-tomorrow and go flying.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
To play this game, you have to want a particular aircraft that is currently on sale. One that in a perfect and privileged world, you could walk up to day-after-tomorrow and go flying.
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ok, Sea Fury with the original Bristol Centaurus engine or a DH Mosquito and last but not least one of the two Hawker Tempests currently under restoration the day they are finished with whichever engine is in it at the time
 
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