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The daughter of a close friend is involved with setting up the sale of an airplane that I'd love to buy but can't quite come up with the down payment. If you know of anyone who might be seriously interested, please PM me.

Some of the details:

MH415 was ordered from Vickers Armstrong Ltd on 28th May 1942, against contract number B981687/39, fuselage number CBAF1061. It was built in the summer of 1943 at the Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory as an LFIXb with a Rolls-Royce Merlin 66 engine as part of batch MH413-456
It was delivered by noted (women) aviator Diana Barnato-Walker, daughter of three-time Le Mans winner Woolf Barnato, and one of the few female pilots in the ATA, and the first British woman to break the sound barrier
On the 24th September 1943, MH415 claimed a Focke-Wulf 190 ‘victory’ north west of Amiens in France while being flown by F/O Desmond F Ruchwaldy during ‘Ramrod 242’, a mission to escort 12 Mitchell bombers ordered to attack the Amiens marshalling yards.
Post-War it was sold to the Dutch and then Belgian governments and then in 1956 sold to a Belgian Company COGEA, which had a target-towing contract with Belgian and NATO forces
It was in The Longest Day (1961) and The Battle of Britain
It was overhauled by Vintage Fighter Restorations of Scone, NSW, Australia and completed its test flights post-restoration in 2021
95% original parts

It is to be auctioned at the annual Goodwood Revival in the UK in September.

Graeme????

Here's a bit more history of this Spitfire:
https://www.avbuyer.com/articles/ga-buyer-europe/the-might-spitfire-mh415-113257