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Spitfire production is getting back on track, but the search for locations continues.

Spitfire production is getting back on track, but the search for locations continues. Out into the surrounding countryside, from brickworks to country manors to empty fields, the dispersal continues.

Presenter: Tuppence Middleton
Producers: Alasdair Cross and Emily Knight
Editors: Chris Ledgard and Kirsten Lass

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Mon 7 Jun 202109:32GMT
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Planes being assembled (Credit: Martin Davis)

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