This MultiCache was placed for the Caledonian Cachefest. It is a simple 2 stage cache. You will find the coordinates for the hide hidden at the published coordinates.
It’s a full-size, home-made model of the iconic, aerobatic aircraft sitting just casual in a regular front garden!
The owner, Hamish MacLeod, a retired GP, was a former pilot who had a passion for this famous aircraft.
When Hamish was in Florida on an American airbase for an instrument rating and refresher course 28 years ago, he was given the opportunity to fly a spitfire and grabbed it with both hands. Hamish says, it’s ‘just as beautiful to fly as it is to look at’. He had it delivered in sections to his house in Moffat and put it together with the help of friends.
What’s the connection to Moffat? Air Chief Marshall Hugh Dowding, who was credited as masterminding the Battle of Britain in 1940 and known as the ‘architect of deliverance’, was born in Moffat. Every year there’s a flyover by a spitfire in his honour – one of the highlights of Moffat’s calendar.
Will it remain in Moffat indefinitely? Hamish has left it in his will to the people of Moffat and to the residents of Dowding House (the largest memorial to Dowding and a retirement home for ex RAF personnel) which will be its new base.
Dowding House was once a school which was founded by Dowding’s father and where Hamish taught as a medical student. Another memorial to Dowding stands in nearby Station Park.
