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Written by Justin Cronje -
University of Pretoria students in front of the Spitfire 5518
Over the past 12 months, the SAAF Museum Spitfire Restoration Project has much inaction mainly due to the effects of COVID-19, with a major partner withdrawing support temporarily, but the project to make Spitfire 5518 display-worthy has seen recent progress.
The South African Air Force (SAAF) Museum Spitfire Restoration Project aims to rebuild a Mark 1Xe Spitfire, serial number 5518, built in May 1945 and delivered to the SAAF two years later. It was retired from service in the first quarter of 1954 and preserved in non-flying condition as a “gate guard” on a plinth at AFB Waterkloof. After the only flyable Spitfire in South Africa (Evelyn) was exported, 5518 was taken off its plinth, stripped down and re-evaluated. Parts were then either restored and re-used or remanufactured in a combined effort by the SAAF Museum, 1 Air Depot and what was then the Atlas Airc ....

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