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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: 20/04/2009

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:1168900

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