Apprentice twenty wins possibility to work with ancestral Spitfire

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The worlds initial neophyte Spitfire automechanic in 40 years is Gareth Rutt, 20,of Biggleswade.

He will stick on eight experienced engineers at the Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire who are restoring a 1942 Supermarine Spitfire Vc.

It is the usually Spitfire to keep an strange De Havilland three-blade propeller and is thought to be value up to 2 million. It flew with the Czech No 310 Squadron and was formerly easy for the 1961 movie The Battle of Britain.

Mr Rutt, who will get a BTEC Level Three and an NVQ Level Three in aerospace engineering after 4 years said: Its British story we are operative on.

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