The Pat Hughes Spitfire
Restoring Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia X4009
as a Flying Memorial
The Pat Hughes Spitfire News
Spitfire X4009 Watch launched by REC Watches
REC watches in collaboration with Hunter Fighter Collection Incorporated have launched a limited edition range of watches to commemorate Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia X4009. The X4009 watches are limited-edition timepieces made from Spitfire Mk Ia X4009 aircraft, flown by Australian fighter-ace Flight Lieutenant Paterson (Pat) Clarence Hughes DFC during the Battle of [...]
Supermarine Spitfire X4009 Mobile Fuselage Display
A Spitfire fuselage structure has arrived at Hunter Fighter Collection to help the Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia X4009 project. The Spitfire fuselage structure, still contained in its jig frame, was recently transported to Scone NSW from Toowoomba Qld. Work will commence soon to transform it into a mobile Spitfire display to assist [...]
Supermarine Spitfire X4009 wreck to Australia
The engine of Supermarine Spitfire X4009 along with the aircraft wreck, amounting to nearly 500kg, is being packed to be shipped from Airframe Assemblies on the Isle of Wight UK to Hunter Fighter Collection at Scone Australia. Spitfire X4009 is owned by Hunter Fighter Collection Incorporated, a registered not-for-profit charity in Australia. X4009 [...]
Supermarine Spitfire X4009 Restoration Underway
Hunter Fighter Collection Incorporated, a registered not-for-profit charity based at Scone, NSW, Australia has commenced its most ambitious project yet, the restoration to airworthy status of one of the most famous remaining WWII RAF Mk I Spitfires, Serial X4009. Vickers Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia RAF Serial X4009 construction number 945 / 6 [...]
Hunter Fighter Collection awarded $150,000 to restore Pat Hughes Spitfire
Hunter Fighter Collection Incorporated, an Australian Not-for-profit was awarded $150,000 in funding under the Government’s 'Saluting Their Service' Commemorative Grants Program in January 2021 which enabled work to commence on the fuselage assembly of Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia X4009. The grant will help restore the original aircraft of one of Australia’s leading fighter [...]
Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia X4009 to Australia
In a coup for the Australian Warbird movement and historic aviation globally, the Vickers Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia flown by Australia’s top scoring Battle of Britain ace, 39461 Flight Lieut. Paterson Clarence Hughes DFC is to be rebuilt to airworthy condition and operated in Australia as a flying memorial to ‘Pat’ Hughes. [...]