An incomplete Spitfire has sold for £18,000 after a man who spent 20 years working on it in his garage died aged 83.
Peter Arnold, who came to be known as ‘Mr Spitfire’, rescued the fuselage after it was deployed on the Salisbury Plain Ranges in 1948.
The Supermarine Spitfire F Mk 22 PK519, his final project, was kept at his home in Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire before his death in 2025.
It was expected to fetch between £20,000 and £30,000 at auction – but sold for £18,000.
The plane was ordered on June 2, 1943 and delivered to Brize Norton on September 22,
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