Airfix partners with SPITFIRES.COM

Airfix is thrilled to announce a special new partnership with SPITFIRES.COM, an Academy which needs little introduction. 

There exist few model builders who are strangers to the iconic Spitfire; fewer who can admit they have never dreamed of experiencing a Merlin engine roaring beneath them as they prepare to take to the skies in the legendary warbird. 

SPITFIRES.COM, formerly Boultbee Flight Academy, was the world’s first Spitfire training school and approved Spitfire flight provider flying single seat and two seat Spitfires. The Academy, much like the Airfix brand, has a long history, one that has touched many hearts.  

In a partnership that simply makes sense, Airfix is excited to be working with this historic Academy in the hopes of providing modellers and aviation enthusiasts alike, content and experiences bursting at the seams with Spitfire splendour. 

Spitfires.com offers flights and experiences around the UK in several locations. The headquarters is based at Goodwood Aerodrome, West Sussex, the former Battle of Britain Hurricane and Spitfire base, then known as RAF Westhampnett and remains the only operational Battle of Britain grass field on the South Coast of England. 

Its location only minutes from the coast allows all experiences on offer to be conducted in the very same skies and over the same land and sea that the Battle of Britain was fought over 75 years ago. 

Lee-On-Solent has significant D-Day Spitfire history and its proximity to the white cliffs of the Needles means flights can be conducted around one of the most iconic landforms on the south coast of the United Kingdom.

Spitfire Mk.IX Simulator – SPECIAL OFFER 

To kickstart this exciting partnership, Spitfires.com is offering a discount on the incredible Spitfire Mk.IX simulator to all Airfix Club members – the world’s only Spitfire simulator that can be used for training new Spitfire pilots as well as offering a hands-on wartime combat experience to non-pilots. 

Some say recreating an Airfix Spitfire is the closest one can get to the real thing – this goes one step further; this simulator is a real Spitfire!

The fuselage is built from approximately 50% wartime parts – this means the airframe has in fact (and in part) fought in WWII. The remaining parts are modern restorations, required to meet strict standards, and of course made specifically for the simulator to aid the conversion from analogue to digital information. 

Far from a wooden approximation of a Spitfire cockpit, the cockpit is indistinguishable from the real thing – even to a wartime or modern Spitfire pilot, including original gauges, dials, and needles. Many of the controls are original and all work exactly as they would in the aircraft – including the spade grip, meaning one is in fact operating a piece of history.

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