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The design is basically Mk1 hurricane tailwheel, but that AH number is wrong. It should be something AH5000/IX

Beautiful razorback rear panel. I would put £1200 - 1500 but tbh, try finding another one, especially with such history

Wish you luck finding it

You have to remember that VS reused parts from previous Mks on future Mks. Old timers here will remember that I put a post about my recovery of the Spiteful Prototype NN660, it was Type 371, but had parts from 300 mk1 right the way to MkXIV (it had a Mk XIV fuz). So the 366 does not mean it was...

One on left looks like B-17 tail armour

So sad to hear of Joes passing. I don’t frequent here so much nowadays. Lovely guy.

Antishimmy type fitted to some Lancs mostly those operating off grass. I have a Lanc tailwheel with a conventional Tyre. Other aircraft fitted with the Anti shimmy tailwheel were the typhoon and Mosquito

The aileron throw is easy to work out in degrees at the stick. Elevator throw more difficult. But it is surprisingly low. Not as low as a Hurricane. On a spit controls are not well harmonised as say, a Mustang. On the spit roll forces are quite high, pitch not so.

SMAF - South Marston Aircraft Factory stamp found on my Seafire F46 LA546 cockpit

A Fw190 came down off Brighton beach I have the Revi off it. Given it is a big piece I’d look at that

Very sad to hear

Since last year I bought a Harvard fuselage. Progress on all the projects. The Salisbury Spit is going to have an original gyro gunsight fit. A few more pix

As others said, unless from a crash site, unlikely to trace. They rarely put the tail number on wheels, weird since often the only thing that might survive a crash was the tail wheel as it had a shock absorbing tyre. Red often means the wheel is only serviceable foreground use.

UK used same standard size. US used two sausage ones (one a third bigger than the other but same dia) and two diff minion shaped ones