WW II Era Spitfire Barn Find Spitfire that just sold for £1.5M

Spitfire that saw in action in WW2 before starring in 1969 film Battle of Britain to be sold for £1.5m after spending 40 years in a Texas barn

Spitfire

  • World War Two fighter starred in two major movies in the 1960s
  • The aircraft’s owner Wilson ‘Connie’ Edwards flew stunts in both movies
  • He took the aircraft as payment and brought it home to Texas
  • The £1.5 million aircraft was last flown in 1973 and spent 40 years in a barn
  • Fully restored, the aircraft which first flew in 1943 could be worth £4 million

By Darren Boyle
Published in Mail Online by Associated Newspapers Ltd., Part of the Daily Mail
Published: 11:25 EST, 13 July 2014 | Updated: 11:48 EST, 13 July 2014

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