Spitfire Heritage Gin and The Spitfire Heritage Trust are celebrating the culmination of the fundraising, build and delivery of a full-size Spitfire replica built as a thank you to the people of Lesotho.
The small African country, which this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of its Commonwealth independence, raised more money per head of population to fund Spitfire construction in WWII than any other – enough to build an entire squadron.
In this, the aircraft’s 80th anniversary year, the Spitfire Heritage Trust – which gin owner Ian Hewitt co-founded – is presenting the replica Spitfire to Lesotho for public display as a thank-you for their outstanding generosity in Britain’s time of need.
The Spitfire will arrive in Africa in time for the country’s Remembrance Sunday on 13th November 2016. This is the latest in the gin company team’s efforts to support the Trust.
The Spitfire Heritage team will fly out to Lesotho to meet the Spitfire as it touches down on African soil for a Remembrance Day presentation to H.M King Letsie III. The aircraft will go on permanent display in Lesotho’s memorial square.
Thanks to the help of police and volunteers the Spitfire Heritage team is also shipping out more than 150 restored mountain bikes to help youngsters get to school from remote mountain villages.
Since its late Spring launch Ian Hewitt and gin business partner, Denise France, put their efforts behind a careful growth strategy for Spitfire Heritage Gin, which has seen it stocked by a variety of high-end bars and pubs and luxury retailers.
The company will announce a new expression of its Spitfire Heritage Gin, created exclusively for one of Britain’s iconic luxury goods retailers, early in the new year.
The company’s gin is produced in Cambridge as a single estate, small batch botanical gins by multi award-winning distiller Dr. John Walters.
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