The Enstone Flying Club, a flight school and flying club in Enstone, U.K., is making progress on an ambitious project to create a squadron of 12 90-percent replicas of the Supermarine Spitfire, one of the most famous Allied warbirds of World War II. Named the “City of Oxford,” the squadron is expected to include not only a dozen Spitfires but also “ground crews, military vehicle enthusiasts and living history players,” according to the Enstone Flying Club’s website.
The Spitfires in the squadron will be an experimental version with the designation Mk26B, which was designed by Mike O’Sullivan, an Australian who started the Supermarine Aircraft Company building replicas of the Spitfire in the mid-1990s.
