A friend of mine, Nelson Whiteman, had a fully restored Spitfire given to him by his father when he returned from Korea.
I haven’t seen him in 50 years but Unless he crashed it i’m sure it is still in existance at Whiteman Airpark in No. Hollywood, California.
I hate hearing those stories about being able to buy a surplus fighter plane for $1000 after WWII...argh. I can’t stand it. It is torture. I can live with buying 500 shares of Apple stock when it was $12 and having my wife sell it for me when it got to $25, but I grit my teeth when I hear about those fighters being fed into shredders or sold for a thousand bucks.