article_snippet.sent: The Mark 1 version of the iconic plane was among the first built in March 1940 but Spitfire P9374, once flown by an airman involved in the Great Escape, never made it to Battle of Britain Britain as it crash-landed in May 1940.
article_snippet.sent: Back in the sky: This iconic Mark 1 plane was among the first built in March 1940, but Spitfire P9374 never made This iconic Mark 1 plane to Battle of Britain Britain as Spitfire P9374 crash-landed over Dunkirk in May 1940.
article_snippet.sent: A technician with the propeller of the restored Supermarine Spitfire (pictured left) at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, and pilot Ken Wilkinson (right), who is photographed with the Spitfire that he flew during the Second World War .
article_snippet.sent: Second World War Spitfire pilot Ken Wilkinson posed next to the Mark 1 aircraft at the Imperial War Museum earlier today.
article_snippet.sent: The Spitfire P3974 after the Mark 1 aircraft at the Imperial War Museum restoration .
article_snippet.sent: Originally built at the Vickers Armstrong factory in Southampton, the Spitfire P3974 was delivered to 92 Squadron at RAF Croydon in March 1940, one of the most celebrated squadrons in the RAF.
article_snippet.sent: Second World War Spitfire pilot Ken Wilkinson (pictured) with the plane .
article_snippet.sent: The cockpit of the restored Supermarine Spitfire, which was one of the first Spitfires ever built in 1940, at Duxford's Imperial War Museum .
highlights_snippet.sent: The Mark 1 version of the iconic plane was one of the first Spitfires to go into action, and was  built in March 1940 .
  