A rare two-seat version of the Spitfire fighter, the plane that
earned a nation's gratitude in the Battle of Britain, may fetch a
record price in an auction this month.
This Spitfire is unique — a one-seat World War II-era fighter that became a two-seat trainer in the 21st century. Bonhams,
which is offering the meticulously restored plane at a sale on April
20, estimates it will sell for 1.5 million pounds ($2.2 million).
Retrieved from a junkyard in South Africa 30 years ago, the plane is
now certified to fly.
Bonhams' Austria unit, Bonhams &
Goodman, sold a 1945 Spitfire Mark XVI for NZ$3.2million ($1.8 million)
in September, reportedly the record auction price for a Spitfire. That
plane had been on display at the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio
until 1997. The one now for sale is a Mark IX model delivered on Oct. 23, 1944, one of 23,000 Spitfires built through the war.
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