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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire Va
    Last Military Serial:P7308 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:61st Operation Training Unit (OTU), Handforth, Cheshire East, UK

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire IIA by Castle Bromwich CyshadowCO at Birmingham.

    30 July 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n P7308.

    30 July 1940

    To 24th Maintanence Unit (MU), Ternhill, Market Drayton, Shropshire TF9, UK.

    10 September 1940

    To No. 74 Squadron, Coltishall, Norwich, Norfolk NR12, UK.

    22 May 1941

    Transferred to No. 54 Squadron, Hornchurch, Greater London, UK.

    12 June 1941

    Transferred to No. 308 [Polish] Squadron, Speke, Merseyside, UK.

    20 August 1941

    Transferred to No. 71 [Eagle] Squadron, Debden, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11, UK.
    Operated with markings: XR D
    Assigned to Flight Officer William R. Dunn, the first American Ace of WWII.

    27 August 1941

    Damaged.
    Damaged by Luftwaffe fighters. P/O William R Dunn was badly wounded in this aircraft, but managed to get himself and his crippled bird back to North Weald.

    1 September 1941

    Transferred to Air Service Training E, Hamble-Le-Rice, Hampshire, UK.

    After 1 September 1941

    Converted to a Spitfire Va.

    1 April 1942

    Transferred to No. 133 Squadron, London Biggin Hill Airport, Main Road, Biggin Hill, Bromley, Kent TN16 3BH, UK.

    16 April 1942

    Transferred to No. 421 Squadron, RAF DIgby, Digby, Lincoln LN4 3LH, UK.

    17 May 1942

    Transferred to No. 164 Squadron, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, UK.

    10 September 1942

    Transferred to No. 602 Squadron, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, UK.

    21 July 1943

    Transferred to 61st Operation Training Unit (OTU), Handforth, Cheshire East, UK.

    A replica Supermaine Spitfire is displayed at Seymour-Johnson AFB, North Carolina, wearing the markings of P7308 while assigned to No. 71 Eagle Squadron. The 4th FW, which calls Seymour-Johnson AFB home, is the direct descendant unit of the original Eagle Squadrons.
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