Certainly, after WWII, RAF didn't need that many aircraft anymore. Thus, 136 Spitfire MK IXs were sold to South African Air Force in 1948, and TD134, the bird you see here, was among them.

It is in the rear cockpit of MJ627, a combat veteran Mk IX Spitfire built in 1943, that I am sitting as we fly through the perfect blue of an autumn sky over southern England.

Undergraduate aerospace engineering students voluntarily assisted on the project between 2019 and 2023 as an extracurricular activity, working in teams of four or five at a time before the finished ...

Outnumbered yet never outfought, The Few buckled on their Spitfires and rode into the Battle of Britain like knights on their chargers. Eighty years on, their true memorial is the freedom in the air ...

He peered into the rear cockpit of Spitfire ML407, intrigued that it was converted into a two-seater after the war, by the Irish Air Corps, which used it as a training aircraft until 1960.

A rare two-seater Spitfire plane is to be sold at public auction. The Mark IX aircraft is expected to fetch at least £1.5m when it is auctioned on 20 April at the RAF Museum in Hendon, north London, ...

A "massive fan" of the RAF saw his dream come true when he got the chance to sit in the cockpit of a Spitfire. John Negus, who will soon be celebrating his 90th birthday, enjoyed a trip to the RAF ...

Home Gardens Expert Gardening Tips 'The Spitfire made everyone who sat in the aircraft’s tiny cockpit feel great, feel godly': A eulogy to the Spitfire, 80 years on from its Finest Hour Outnumbered ...