Excavators head to Myanmar to find World War II Spitfires

A restored 1944 Vickers-Supermarine MkIX Spitfire aircraft at RAF Thruxton air base, in southern England, in this April 7, 2009 file photo.

David Cundell, left, project leader with Andy Brockman project archaeologist of the attempt to dig up and recover a number of British World War II Spitfire Mark XIV fighter planes, buried in Myanmar at the end of the WWII, as they speak to members of the media during a briefing on how they intend to...

LONDON (AP) — An airplane-obsessed farmer, a freelance archaeologist and a team of excavators are heading to the Myanmar city of Yangon on Saturday to find a nearly forgotten stash of British fighter planes thought to be carefully buried beneath the former capital’s airfield.

Published: 01/06/2013