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Grab the sky: Vintage combat aircraft value

In August last year, a small flotilla of aircraft from the Second World War, collecting powder in a Texas shed, bought for 15 million US dollars. Collectors spent $6 million on the gem, a Mark IX Spitfire, which battled in the Battle of Britain that ended with the Luftwaffe's loss and Winston Churchill's challenge:

" Nine Buchons, the Spanish-built versions of Germany's top combatant, the Messerschmitt 109, who took part in the aerial battles of the 1969 Battle of Britain, accounted for the remainder. The return on investments of classic cars is defined by scarcity, attractiveness, ability to breathe air and - perhaps most of all - origin. "The value is dictated by history," says Simon Brown of Platinum Sales, who did the Texas sale for Wilson "Connie" Edwards, an offshore petroleum tycoon and former flying stunt pilots who took the planes instead of money for his work on the game.

Gene DeMarco, Head of Vintage Aviator in New Zealand, says the industry has three major segments: These include classic WWI planes such as the Sopwith Camel (25 percent); and inter- and post-war instructors and airliners (10 percent). At the top of the store are the warriors of the Second World War.

Besides Spitfires and Messerschmitts, these models also feature US classic models such as the P-51 Mustang, the Beechcraft model D17 Staggerwing and the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. These planes are selling for $2.5 million to $5 million and are attracting billions like Microsoft's Paul Allen, one of the world's largest gatherers. Three years ago the RAF Kittyhawk P-40 was discovered and destroyed in Egypt in 1942. This was described as "aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun's tomb".

One year after the discovery of the P-40, a German Dornier Do-17 aircraft fired during the Battle of Great Britain was towed from the English Channel. Collectibles would be anxious to offer premiums if either of them were ever put up for sale. Alternatives to functioning reproductions are exhibits from museums that have been restorated from the remains of airplanes, such as those that battled over the trench of the Western Front and commemorate the deeds of the Red Baron.

"WWI aircraft have been in great demand due to the hundredth anniversary of the conflict," says DeMarco, who has seen interest outside the traditionally strong Europe and Americas market. China and Australia have asked for aircraft like the Sopwith Snipe, which was driven by a Bentley-motor.

Mr Brown had a strong interest from mainland China - with enquiries from 50 different origins - in World War II airplanes, particularly the P-40 Warhawks, which had a threatening Asian footprint. Mr Brown recently bought a Messerschmitt 109, the only remaining survivor of the Battle of Britain, for 3.5 million US dollars to an Aussie mutual fund.

Plans are to keep them for at least seven years and the EIB has identified them as an attractive option to the classic vehicles that make up the majority of its "passionate" capital outlays. "Oldtimers are cheap in comparison to oldtimers," says Brown. According to Historic Automobile Group International, a British research company, the cost of "exceptional" classic vehicles has risen by 163 percent since 2009.

It is, however, hard to include classic cars in an index to gauge yields, as there are not enough disposals. There are currently six P-51 Mustangs for sale, for example, but only two or three are likely to be sold this year, says Ford von Weise, chief of airplane financing at Citi Private Bank.

In the end, "people buy classic planes because they are impassioned for them, not as an alternate invention. Amount of the bonus for flying planes will depend on pilots' level of expertise. According to Brown, the full supply bonuses amount to about 3 percent of the value of the airplane on averaging.