The Spitifire MH343 is the most famous warbird in the world, she was built in 1943 at Vickers, Castle Bromwich and was tested by the famous inter-war records-breaker pilot Alex Henshaw and in the same month as she flew for the first time, in August 1943, she was affected to the No 222 sqn and was allocated to the South African pilot Flight Lieutenant Henry Lardner-Burke who shot down three FW-190 and a half of a Bf-109 with her before she was transferred to the No 350 sqn at Hornchurch before to return to the 222 sqn where she was still flown by Flt/lt Lardner-Burke before to be affected to Flt/sgt Alfred "Bill" Burge until the squadron replaced its Spitfires Mk.IX for some newer versions, MH434 was stood down in March 1945. In 1947, she was rearmed and sent to the Royal Netherlands Air Force and served with the No 322 sqn used for light bombing and strafing mission until he crash-landed on the Java island and was stored few years before to be restored and fly again in Holland on March 1953. They then sold her to the Belgian Air Force for using it as an advanced training aircraft with the 13 Wings at Brustem. In 1956, she was sold to the British airliner pilot Tim Davies who flew her for his pleasure and who registrated her G-ASJV and flew in her first movie "Operation Crossbow". In 1967 she joined the Spitfire Productions Ltd for the film "Battle of Britain and was sold again at the end of the film to Sir Adrian Swire who painted her in a 1944 camo paint scheme with the squadron code AC-S and flew in several movies and TV shows such as "A bridge too far". In April 1983, she was sold again to Ray Hanna who made her one of the Old Flying Machine Company's founding aircraft and received a major re-build in 1994-95 and now flies, when not make up for movies, with an original paint scheme of the No. 222 sqn coded ZD-B.