Supermarine Seafire FXVII, G-KASX / FLWA.25488, Kennet Aviation
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Registration: G-KASX
Construction Number: FLWA.25488
Code Number: SX336 / VL-105
Model Supermarine Seafire FXVII
Operator: Kennet Aviation
Airport: Duxford (QFO / EGSU), UK - England
Photographer: Martin Laycock
Date Taken: 08/07/2006
Date Submitted: 19/04/2009
Kennet Aviation's beautiful Seafire photographed at Flying Legends 2006. She's an exceptionally rare machine, one of only two airworthy Seafires in the world, the other being Jim Smith's FR47 VP441 based in Crysal Lakes, Montana. Discovered in the scrapyard of Joseph Brierley & Son of Warrington, Lancashire in 1973, along with sister ship SX300, the remains of the two airframes enabled this wonderful rebuild. After a long restoration she flew for the first time in over forty years with Pete Kynsey at the helm on 3 May 2006 at North Weald.
Picture ID:1168898