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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire IX
    Last Military Serial:5632 SAAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-IX-3279
    Last Civil Registration:G-BRSF
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire IX sn 5632 SAA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Goodwood Aerodrome, Chichester, Goodwood, Sussex - West, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as a Spitfire IX.

    May 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force with s/n 5632.

    16 January 1954

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the South African Air Force.

    February 1954

    Sold to South African Metal and Machinery Co., Salt River, Cape Town, South Africa.

    To Larry Barnett and Alan Lurie, Johannesburg.

    From 1976 to 1986

    To Peter Sledge, Sydney, Australia.

    Rebuilt to static display condition by Ian Whitney at Pi.Cook in the 1980s.

    14 October 1984

    Restoration completed.

    From 1985 to October 1986

    Loaned to RAN Museum, Nowra, NSW.

    1986


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1986 photo whilst on Static display at the Royal Australian Naval Museum at Nowra, NSW

    From October 1986 to 1989

    To Charles Church, Micheldever, UK.

    October 1986

    Transported by ship.
    Shipped from Nowra, NSW, Australia to the UK.

    From 22 November 1989 to 23 June 1994

    To Sussex Spraying Services Ltd with new c/r G-BRSF.
    Stored in a barn near Worthing, Sussex, UK - for sale.

    23 June 1994

    Civil registration, G-BRSF, cancelled.

    25 July 2003

    To Martin Bodley Phillips, Langford Bridge House, Newton Saint. Cyres, Exeter with new c/r G-BRSF.
    Operated with markings: RR232

    August 2003

    Restoration started.

    Based at Langford, Devon, England.
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    18 December 2012

    By September 2016


    Photographer: Unknown

    Restoration continued.
    At Colerne Airfield, near Bath, Wiltshire, UK.

    Based at Colerne Airfield (ex RAF), Bath, Wiltshire, Colerne Airfield, Colerne, Wiltshire, England.
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    7 September 2019


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: at Melun Villaroche.

    Based at Goodwood Aerodrome, Chichester, Goodwood, Sussex-West, England.
    Operated by The Spitfire Academy.
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