No news on the Dornier at Goodwin Sands either. Peculiar.

I blame aliens ...

Are they going to be listed on Ebay soon? ;)

highly unlikely ;) but keep an eye on the US warbirds circus in the next year or so...

Pretty sure it was all hokum. No actual evidence of their existence was ever presented.

Theres a British company that will rebuild your spitfire with as little original components as an identity plate or make you a 100% reproduction without one.

I would guess the price of restoring one that had been buried underground for 60 odd years would be fairly similar!

oooh believe me, it was not, they just applied the classic magic of "warbird stealth" ;-)

Do you remember the Me109E found in India some years ago? Very few people do, because there was an intentional quietness on the subject. The thing is under restoration somewhere here in the UK, and rest assured it'll never go back to India.
The same thing is happening with these Burmese Spitfires, the real mistake that was done here is when the original researcher came on the news with the thing before he actually recovered the planes (mainly because he ran out of money..). Now someone else stepped in, muscled him out and allegedly has already placed some of them..

It's all about money fellas..

The identity plate is what makes it the original machine.

A complete original BoB Spitfire missing its identity plate is just a collection of used spare parts.

uhmmm well you're looking for at least £800k for a "new from scratch" one, I doubt the checks and repairs to a "NOS" Spitfire would be anywhere near that amount (probably in the region of £150k tops), not to mention the historical value..

You could be right.

I guess it'd depend on the conditions it was stored in and how much cosmoline they were packed in.

Hmmmm! 800K ???? One Power Ball!!!!!!! ;)