5 August 2019
The Silver Spitfire expedition has taken off from Goodwood Aerodrome for its round-the-world flight.
The flight is intended to take four months and can be followed on a live flight tracker here. Two pilots will take turns flying the aircraft, Matt Jones and Steve Brooks, of the Boultbee Academy.
The 1943 Mk.IX Spitfire is finished in polished aluminium and has the guns and camouflage paint removed to ‘de-militarise’ the aircraft, both to broaden the expedition’s appeal and reach, and to gain easier access to nations en route.
A Pilatus PC-12 single-engine turboprop is the support aircraft, carrying one of the Spitfire pilots, a chief engineer, expedition director and TV crew.
The Silver Spitfire lines up with another Spitfire, ready for take-off, at Goodwood
The route takes the Spitfire, a genuine warbird which saw plenty of action during WW11, along this route:
3 comments
We saw the wide-left-base arrival for EGNT at Tynemouth on Monday 5th around 1415Z, what a wonderful sight! I hope Sam’s son did well on your
short stop at the end of your first leg north !!
Retired LHR “E Minibus Unum” Bill B.
Would love to see this in New Zealand!
I have bought the watch and am an avid fan of the project
I’m disappointed that the tracker is not keeping up with the actuality