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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire Ia
    Last Military Serial:AR213 RAF
    Construction Number:WASP/20/2
    Last Civil Registration:G-AIST
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire Ia by Westand at Yeovil.

    Circa July 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n AR213.

    24 July 1941

    Transferred to 12 Maintenance Unit.

    31 July 1941

    Transferred to 57 OTU.

    Circa August 1941

    Markings Applied: JZ E
    Personal aircraft of fighter ace Ginger Lacey while he was resting from operations as an instructor with the Unit.

    20 February 1943

    Transferred to 53 OTU.

    17 August 1944

    Assigned to 8 MU for storage.

    30 November 1945

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    From 25 October 1946 to 4 July 1949

    To Group Captain Henry Wheeler with c/r G-AIST.

    From Circa July 1949 to 1967

    In storage.

    1966

    Markings Applied: OV H, K9853
    Marked to represent and airframe operated by 19 Squadron based at Fowlmere.

    From 17 April 1967 to 8 May 1974

    To Air Commodore Henry Wheeler.
    Returned to flying condition and participated in Battle of Britain film.

    1970


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: Circa 1970 photo at Booker - still in markings used in movie - Battle of Britain

    From 14 June 1974 to 6 October 1987

    To Patrick Lindsay.

    By 23 July 1983

    Markings Applied: GQ A, AR213

    23 July 1983


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1983 photo of Rolls Royce - Supermarine Spitfire 1A at Greenham Common

    24 May 1986


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Spitfire 1A in markings of 53 Operational Training Unit on display at the 1986 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    From 6 October 1987 to 22 January 1990

    To The Honourable Amabel Mary Maud Lindsay.

    Based at Bianchi Aviation, Wycombe Air Park, Booker-Lane End, Buckinghamshire/Bucks, England.
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    From 22 January 1990 to 1 April 1992

    To Proteus Petroleum Aviation Ltd.
    Under the name Personal Plane Services.

    26 May 1990


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Spitfire IA flown in 609 Squadron markings at the 1990 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

    From 1 April 1992 to 10 May 1996

    To Proteus Holdings Ltd.

    From 10 May 1996 to 20 June 2011

    To Sheringham Aviation Uk Ltd.

    By 2000

    Markings Applied: PR D

    22 July 2000


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    After 2003

    Restored.
    By Personal Plane Services, Booker, High Wycombe.

    7 November 2007

    First post-restoration Flight.
    At Booker, High Wycombe.

    By 13 July 2008

    Markings Applied: JZ E, AR213

    13 July 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2008 photo at Duxford - AR213 repainted in its original colours and with its original squadron codes: 57 OTU. Photo displayed with written permission from Joop de Groot

    20 June 2011

    To Spitfire The One Ltd, Barnet.

    29 June 2011


    Photographer: Arjun Sarup

    In the inventory of Comanche Fighters/Tom and Dan Friedkin, Comanche Ranch, Houston, TX.
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    Based at Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
    Operated by the Aircraft Restoration Company.
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    Markings Applied: JZ E

    2013

    Markings Applied: XR D, P7308
    The Spitfire now wears the No 71 Eagle Squadron codes XR-D and the markings of P7308, a Spitfire Mk IIa. The markings are those of Pilot Officer William R. Dunn, an early American ace, credited with downing five Luftwaffe aircraft between May and August 1941. Dunn was badly wounded in an accident in P7308 at North Weald on 27 August 1941.

    5 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK. Undergoing maintenance.

    5 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK. Eagle Squadron.

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford Autumn Airshow


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    Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom

    Individual Contributors
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson

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