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.

The World War II vintage aircraft is a Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX formerly flown by the Royal Egyptian Air Force and gifted to the leader to celebrate the announcement of a 1981 trade agreement. The ...

A World War two Spitfire ace has been reunited with the airframe for the first time in 80 years at the Australian International Airshow. 100-year-old Warrant Officer (retd) John McDonald sat in the ...

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 ...

Biggin Hill detail the action-packed history of their latest project. In late 1943 IX MA764 took part in “RAMROD 333”. The Spitfire helped escort bombers flying over Lille, France in order to take out ...

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.

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 ...