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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire LF.IX
    Last Military Serial:PT989 RAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-IX-3004
    Last Civil Registration:G-CWIX
    Latest Owner or Location:Gregory Davis, Gillingham, Kent

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a Spitfire LF.IX by Vickers-Armstrong at Castle Bromwich.

    August 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n PT989.

    By October 1944

    Shipped to Murmansk via No. 33 and No. 52 Maintenance Units. She arrived at the Kola Peninsula on 30th October 1944 and was delivered to the No. 767 Fighter AviationRegiment of the Murmansk Air Defence Force.

    18 May 1945

    Involved in an incident.
    Pilot crashed her into Spitfire PT879 causing both aircrafts pilots to bail out, fortunately successfully.

    16 December 2022

    To Gregory Davis, Gillingham, Kent with new c/r G-CWIX.
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