12.8 Million Dollars for a Spitfire?

Warbirdnerd · **Joined:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:34 pm **Posts:** 2923

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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...

Red Tail · **Joined:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:56 pm **Posts:** 138

Warbirdnerd wrote:

Quote:

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...

John

snj-5 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:45 am

The joke I've heard goes Asking vs Getting is like Fishing vs Catching!

Bela P. Havasreti

CH2Tdriver · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:48 am

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!"

SPANNERmkV · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:26 pm

CH2Tdriver wrote:

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!"

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

PinecastleAAF · **Joined:** Fri May 25, 2007 4:50 pm **Posts:** 1028

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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

Jim Beasley · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:31 pm

Exactly

CH2Tdriver wrote:

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!"

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:24 am

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!

Jim Beasley · **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:36 am

why did he tell her? d'oh

Obergrafeter wrote:

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!

whistlingdeath77 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:32 am

i'll buy this, but i need 12.79 million more partners

Mike Halbrook · **Joined:** Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:42 am **Posts:** 106

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.

me109g4 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:23 pm

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?

Mike Halbrook · **Joined:** Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:42 am **Posts:** 106

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.

ChrisDNT · **Posted:** Sun Jul 03, 2011 3:31 am

Pretty expensive for a "ugly" Spit : the second cockpit mod is just heurrkkkk !!!!

me109g4 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 03, 2011 11:48 am

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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