Spitfire at the Aviation Museum

Permit me to correct a few errors in the write-up about the Aviation Museum in the Times Showtime of Friday, August 1.

First of all, the photograph illustrated on the left facing the page and below is that of a Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX, and not of a "beautifully restored hawker Hurricane" as the caption states.

The Hurricane is in the final stages of excellent restoration, having been retrieved from the sea off Filfla where it had lain submerged for nearly 60 years.

The beautifully restored Fairey swordfish is not as yet beautifully restored; its fuselage and wings and other appendages are crated inside the museum premises awaiting restoration by the capable hands of Ray Polidano and his son David.

Also I am not yet aware of a two-storey multipurpose building extant in the area. What the write-up omitted is to mention the fact that the fuselage of the Gloster Sea Gladiator N5520, the supposedly actual "Faith", that with two other Sea Gladiators defended Malta against the might of the Regia aeronautics in the early days of the war, is still languishing inside the War Museum at St Elmo, minus wings, incorrectly shaped rudder and haphazardly fitted panels. The exhibit should be fully restored (the Aviation museum having available both wings and other essential items) to be displayed alongside the Hurricane and Spitfire at Ta' Qali, thus illustrating Malta's main defenders during World War II.