A truly historic aircraft that returned to the air in September 2011. This was the 557th Spitfire built (of more than 22000) and was crash landed on the beach at Calais on May 23rd 1940 by Flying Officer Peter Cazenove. It is seen taxying out and kicking up the cut grass at Flying Legends 2012

Built at Woolston in March 1940 as P9374. Forced landed at Calais 24 May 1940 and sunk into beach sands. Re-emerged in September 1980 and recovered in January 1981. UK registered in 2000. Fuselage under rebuild by Airframe Assemblies Ltd in a yellow jig frame for accurate assembly. The lower panel in the foreground was the only original skin suitable for re-fitment due to extensive salt water corrosion of the remainder. The workmanship at this facility is superb and the historic accuracy is very important to the dedicated team. Each fuselage can take several years to complete. To N92SQ in 2017

Four Mk 1s together. The others were G-LFIX (OU-V), G-CFGJ (QV), and G-CGUK (KL-A)

A delightful Mk1 Spitfire retracts its undercarriage at Flying Legends