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Warbirdnerd
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A two-seater World War II Spitfire, with a documented service record dating back to the 1940s, will be on sale at Masterpiece London with a guide price of 8 million pounds.

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I guess the bar has been raised...
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Red Tail
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Warbirdnerd wrote:
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A two-seater World War II Spitfire, with a documented service record dating back to the 1940s, will be on sale at Masterpiece London with a guide price of 8 million pounds.

From Here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-2 ... ekend.html
I guess the bar has been raised...


You can ask whatever you want for something. Getting that price is often the difficult part...

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CH2Tdriver
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Just another one of those cases where the wife said "Sell It!"

"Okay hun....I'm tryin but looks like no takers yet. I'm gonna go out and fly it now...see ya!"
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Just another one of those cases where the wife said "Sell It!"

"Okay hun....I'm tryin but looks like no takers yet. I'm gonna go out and fly it now...see ya!"
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THAT's why the dude with the 3 P40N's on Ebay never returns my emails! :lol:

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THAT's why the dude with the 3 P40N's on Ebay never returns my emails!


You are being generous. More like 2.dataplate

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Just another one of those cases where the wife said "Sell It!"

"Okay hun....I'm tryin but looks like no takers yet. I'm gonna go out and fly it now...see ya!"
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Need to be carefull, I had a friend whose wife said the same thing to him about his Stearman. He offered it at a (I thought) ridiculous price, and along came some guy who wanted it bad so good bye Stearman. No plane since and that was 10 years ago!
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Jim Beasley
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why did he tell her? d'oh

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Need to be carefull, I had a friend whose wife said the same thing to him about his Stearman. He offered it at a (I thought) ridiculous price, and along came some guy who wanted it bad so good bye Stearman. No plane since and that was 10 years ago!
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i'll buy this, but i need 12.79 million more partners

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Mike Halbrook
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This aircraft has a well known history, but I doubt it is worth, or will bring this amount. Some these prices look like "bubble" prices to me, it would be bad for warbirds if there was a crash in value due to over speculation.
These prices would lead me (if I had any money, which I don't), to have the airframe of a Spit built up to 49%, and then complete the 51% myself (with just a little help) and call it a homebuilt experimental aircraft not based on an existing data plate. At that point I could paint the plane any way I wanted and call it anything I wanted and thump it landing without damaging "a piece of history". I'm sure there are enough Spitfire components new made out there to build such a plane, and for a lot less than 12.5 million.
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me109g4
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The earliiest 2 seater spit i am aware of was converted AFTER the war at Chilbolton in Hampshire. G-AIDN was a Mk.8 single seat that never saw any combat or even service use. The link offered very little info, is the aircraft for sale G-AIDN?
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Mike Halbrook
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The picture is of N32, MT-818 the lone MKVIII two seat Spitfire, also known as G-AIDN. Yes, it has a long and colorful (colourful?) history, but as one of the longest flying post war civil Spitfires. I would hope it is a picture of the actual aircraft for sale.
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ChrisDNT
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Pretty expensive for a "ugly" Spit : the second cockpit mod is just heurrkkkk !!!!
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me109g4
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Wonder why its being sold off,, current owner only had it 3 yrs. or so after importing it back from the USA,,
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