Spitfire Memorial

NPL Group Community Fund Awards

Awarded in July 2013 through the Scottish Landfill Communities Fund

The Grangemouth Spitfire Memorial is a full size replica Supermarine Spitfire Mark 1 aircraft to commemorate the trainee Spitfire pilots from all over the world who learned to fly the machine at the beginning of WWII.

It stands as a reminder that the land surrounding the memorial once thronged with young pilots being trained to fly spitfires in World War 2. Over sixty young men, from Britain and all parts of the Commonwealth as well as Poland and Czechoslovakia, died while learning the daring manoeuvres demanded in those incredible times.

The project was enabled through an award of £92,877 by Avondale Environmental Limited, part of the NPL Group through the Landfill Communities Fund.