Spitfire fuselage sells for £18,000 at auction - after spending 20 years in aviation enthusiast’s garage

• A Supermarine Spitfire fuselage kept inside a garage for more than two decades has sold at auction for £18,000.
• The lot was listed by Dominic Winter Auctioneers in Cirencester and featured a cockpit assemblage and five original Griffon propeller blades.
• The fuselage was the final project of aviation enthusiast Peter Arnold, known as 'Mr Spitfire', who stored the aircraft at his home in Newport Pagnell.
• Mr Arnold, who died aged 83, regularly wheeled the Spitfire onto his driveway for members of the public to view.
• The former Aston Martin engineer spent his lifetime tracking down and preserving historic aircraft, travelling the world to see over 260 Spitfires.

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Spitfire fuselage that was kept in man’s garage for 20 years fetches £18,000 at auction