Supermarine Spitfire P8587.

 
This image is to illustrate the type only and is not the actual aircraft involved. Picture via wikipedia.

Belonging to No.57 Operational Training Unit RAF, crashed on 25th March 1943 while flying up a Valley in cloudy conditions. It is rumoured the Pilot may have taken off from RAF Eshott Airfield to go and look for a German Aircraft that had recently crashed in the Cheviot Hills.

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