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Title: SpitFire on Floats Found
Post by: CurtissP-6EHawk on August 31, 2004, 12:09:13 PM

Looking for Investers for recovery (http://www.barnstormers.com/listing.php?main=Warbird&sub=Crash+Sites)

Title: SpitFire on Floats Found
Post by: gofaster on August 31, 2004, 01:52:16 PM

No money to invest today.  Maybe tomorrow.

I thought only 1 spitfire was converted to a float plane and it was salvaged/destroyed after the project was over?

Title: SpitFire on Floats Found
Post by: B17Skull12 on August 31, 2004, 02:21:10 PM

V0SS IS AT IT AGAIN!

Title: SpitFire on Floats Found
Post by: cpxxx on August 31, 2004, 03:13:43 PM

Three Mk V's were converted  and sent to Egypt. A Mk IX was converted but went back to landplane later.  Unless it was one of the MkV's returned to the UK and later sank then it might not really be a Spitfire. But some other floatplane. On the other hand a number seaplanes and flying boats were deliberately sunk after the war when no longer needed.  Sunderlands in Britain and Catalinas in Lough Foyle in Norther Ireland.  So who know maybe the spits suffered the same fate.