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1943 |
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Constructed as a Spitfire LF.IX. |
October 1943 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n MJ271. |
October 1943 |
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Transferred to 33 MU, RAF Lyneham. |
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Transferred to 132SQN, RAF Ford. |
November 1944 |
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Transferred to 401 (RCAF) SQN.
Operated from Volkel and Heesch AB, Netherlands. |
December 1944 |
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Transferred to 410 Repair and Salvage Unit, RAF Tangmere. |
November 1946 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Royal Netherlands Air Force with s/n H-8. |
November 1946 |
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Transferred to 322SQN, Twenthe AB. |
June 1949 |
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Major overhaul carried out by Fokker at Schipol Airfield. |
February 1951 |
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Transferred to Twenthe AB. |
August 1951 |
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Transferred to Soesterberg AB. |
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New serial number assigned: 3W-8 KLu
Date that airframe was reserialed is unknown. |
June 1954 |
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Struck off Strength/Charge from the Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Royal Netherlands Air Force. |
From June 1954 to 1957 |
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To 313SQN, Volkel AB.
Used as an Airfield Decoy. |
From June 1954 to 1957 |
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Markings Applied: TA-26
Marked as TA-26 on engine cowling. |
From 6 January 1959 to 1973 |
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To War Museum, Delfzijl, Netherlands. |
From 5 April 1973 to 1978 |
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To War Museum, Anthony Fokker Technical School, Den Haag, Netherlands. |
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Restored.
To static display conditions by the Fokker Technical School. |
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Markings Applied: H-53, MH424
In the markings of a 322Sqn Spitfire serving in the Dutch East Indies during the late 1940s. |
From 22 March 1978 to 2002 |
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To Aviodome Museum, Schipol Airport. |
From 2005 to 2006 |
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To Aviodome, Lelystad Airfield. |
2006 |
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Exchaged with Historic Flying Company Duxford for Fairey Firefly SE-CAU. |
2006 |
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To Historic Flying Ltd/Aircraft Restoration Company, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
 View the Location Dossier |
From 2006 to 2014 |
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Restored. |
20 August 2006 |
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Photographer: Reinhard Jost
Notes: As Dutch H-53 at Duxford, UK |
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Markings Applied: MH424, H-53 |
13 September 2014 |
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Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at Duxford |
13 September 2014 |
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Photographer: Robert Nichols |
13 September 2014 |
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Photographer: Robert Nichols |
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Based at Goodwood Aerodrome, Chichester, Goodwood, Sussex-West, England.
View the Location Dossier |
26 September 2016 |
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To Boultbee Flight Academy Ltd, London with new c/r G-IRTY. |
1 July 2019 |
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Photographer: Fred Taylor
Notes: Seen here at Duxford, UK on 1 July 2019 in preparation for its round the world trip. |
5 August 2019 |
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A restored and defanged Supermarine Spitfire departed from Goodwood Aerodrome in West Sussex, England, on a round-the-world trip.The plane, finished in polished aluminium rather than camo colours, has had her guns removed and extra fuel tanks built into the wings.The memorial flight is part of Royal Air Forces centenary celebrations.The Silver Spitfire, call sign G-IRTY, will fly west heading first to Greenland and then the US. It will cross into Russia, fly south to Japan, across China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the Middle East and into southern Europe. The journey is expected to take about four months, covering 27,000 miles (c 43,500km). |
12 September 2019 |
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Photographer: Andrew Turner |
18 June 2022 |
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Photographer: Kurt Saxkjaer |
