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Rare Spitfire given away by RAF | UK | News | Express.co.uk
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A RARE Spitfire worth up to £500,000 has been given away by the RAF Museum in London in a bungled deal.
Spitfire lost to the nation by bungling museum | Daily Mail Online
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The museum, in Hendon, North London, used it to 'pay' a firm to recover another historic aircraft - an RAF Kittyhawk P40 -from the Sahara.
RAF Museum handed over Spitfire in 'ill-conceived' deal for WWII...
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Iain Thirsk, head of collections at the RAF Museum, described the matter as "very frustrating" and confirmed the deal to give Kennet Aviation the Spitfire was in exchange for the recovery of the Kittyhawk. He said: "The situation in Egypt is very unstable. There is no formal undertaking or promise (to get the ...
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