Anyone have any info on where i could go and watch a full scale Spitfire fly I would like locations and dates for US and England
If there is a better frum location let me know

As far as I last knew, the final one flying in the US crashed in Great Falls Montana about 5 years ago. Don't know of any other flying at this time.

Flyable Spitfires in the US:

Spitfire Mk.V
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-ar614.html
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-bl628.html
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-jg891.html

Spitfire Mk.VIII
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-mt719.html (Not regularly flown but flyable)

Spitfire Mk.IX
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-mj730.html
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-mk959.html
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-ml417.html
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-te308.html (Currently being repaired after a ground collision)

Spitfire Mk.XIV
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-nh749.html
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-nh904.html
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-sm832.html

Spitfire Mk.XVI
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-te476.html
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-te356.html (Not regularly flown but flyable)

Spitfire Mk.XVIII
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-sm845.html
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-tp280.html

Flyable Spitfires in Canada:

Spitfire Mk.IX
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-mk912.html

Spitfire Mk.XIV
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-tz138.html (Flyable but not flown)

Spitfire Mk.XVI
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitr...ire-sl721.html

hey there if your willing to fly to england theres a couple always at the duxford airshows as well as model stands,
and heres the lkink with pictures of the spitfires and below the picture dates of when it is open this year as a display
http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.61

Ther is one flying out of Chester county airport in P.A. I think it is a Mark 19 model. It has a five blade prop. Plane just finished a two year rebuild in England. Was brought over in a shipping container and reasembled last year and test flown in late December08. The guy that bought the plane also has two p51. Dave

2 p51s geeze wish i could get photos of them im currently collecting hundreds of p51 photos and prepairing to build 1 from scratch, ah well google will have to do

Next time I fly up there I will see if I can get some photos.

If you go two airshow buzz web site you can see his plane make it first test flight in the U.S. 1st Flight Beasley's Spitfire

yeah if you could that would be great, the only reason i cant go to air shows is because my girlfriends agrophobic and scared of going out of the house and also scared of being left on her own so i choose not to go to them, when i start to go flying this year i will have to take her and my daughter to her mums while i go flying the rc stuff. the main details i need are in the rear of the cockpit and then general photos of pannals with hatches and so forth in, 3 view drawings show them but it dosnt show how they sit on the plane or weather the hatchs are recessed into the pannal to make it smooth and it sdosnt show details of the fastners used to hold the pannals up, same with hinges theres never any close up photos of them either,. il go take a look at that site as i do love my spitfires too

I have to go to South America for work so it will take me a while to get the photos that you want but i will try and get it done by early May. Dave

well i dont mind if you cant, but i wont be starting the build till mid summer towards autum, as it is suposed to be a winter project for next winter. mean while im sorting out the aero dynamic side as to what aerofoil im going to use and drawing up and adapting the structure, so il be a fair while before im ready for them. thank you again for your offer,

Jim Beasley's Spitfire is SM845, one of two Mk.XVIII (18) Spitfires flying, both of which are in the USA. (Rudy Frasca owns the other) See the links in my previous post for more info and pictures.

Man, I was way off, I wonder what I was thinking. There was a crash in Great falls a few years ago and they did an article on it that it was the last flyable one. Thought it was that one.

Flyboy, the crash in Montana was Mk.XVIII TP298 which basically flew into the side of mountain in bad weather. Believe it or not, that was back in 1994! Time flies eh? At that time it would have been the only flyable XVIII in the States (or anywhere else I think) but was certainly not the only Spit flying in the US at that time despite what may have been reported. Too bad, a very nice airplane. (It is being rebuilt in the UK I believe)

RAF museum at London has enough spitfires to see... MKI, MKIII and a couple of MKIX. There is also a MKXXIV with only 7 hrs flown.