Peter Coates gives £20k for Spitfire cockpit simulator at Potteries Museum
Stoke City chairman Peter Coates has handed over £20,000 to a campaign to create a Spitfire cockpit simulator.
The businessman visited Hanley’s Potteries Museum and Art Gallery last night and presented the cheque to organisers behind Operation Spitfire.
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Peter Coates, left, with Julian Mitchell, the great nephew of Spitfire designer Reginald Mitchell. They are holding the model cockpit. Picture: Wesley Webster
Designs have already been drawn up for the simulator, which will sit alongside the famous Mark XVI plane at the museum.
It will be built by expert staff at Burslem-based Spitfire specialist Supermarine Aero Engineering and feature authentic controls and instruments from the iconic plane.
This Sunday between 11am & 4pm with FREE admission at the Moat House Hotel Festival Park we will be exhibiting with some special show offers, the weather forecast isn't good but our deals are
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Contact: 01782 342609
Valid until: Sunday, June 23 2013
For more information about the museum’s Spitfire, or to find out how to donate money to the fund-raising campaign, visit www.operationspitfire.org.uk.
Alternatively call Steve Adams at Staffordshire Community Foundation on 01782 683000.
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