Spitfire LF PV270 (ZK-SPI). Owned by businessman Brendon Deere and restored to an airworthy condition over five years at Feilding, New Zealand, she flew again on 18 March 2009. The aircraft is based in a purpose-built hangar at RNZAF Base Ohakea along with Brendon Deere's North American Harvard. PV270 Served with the RAF during WW2, then subsequently with the Aeronautica Militaire (Italy), Heyl HaAvir (Israel), and Tatmadaw Lei (Burma/Myanmar). It wears the markings of EN568 / AL, the personal aircraft of Deere's uncle Air Commodore Alan "Al" Deere when based at Biggin Hill in
Spitfire LF PV270 (ZK-SPI). Owned by businessman Brendon Deere and restored to an airworthy condition over five years at Feilding, New Zealand, she flew again on 18 March 2009. The aircraft is based in a purpose-built hangar at RNZAF Base Ohakea along with Brendon Deere's North American Harvard. PV270 Served with the RAF during WW2, then subsequently with the Aeronautica Militaire (Italy), Heyl HaAvir (Israel), and Tatmadaw Lei (Burma/Myanmar). It wears the markings of EN568 / AL, the personal aircraft of Deere's uncle Air Commodore Alan "Al" Deere when based at Biggin Hill in 1944.
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