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Serial #: MV293 Construction #: 6S/649205 Civil Registration: G-BGHB G-SPIT |
Model: Spitfire FR Mk. XIV Name: None Status: Airworthy Last info: 2002 |
Built at Supermarine's Keevil facility, late 1944.
Delivered to Royal Air Force
- BOC: ??
- SOC: 1945
- Allocated to 33 MU and stored at RAF Lyneham.
Delivered to Indian AF as 48, December 1947.
- Designation later changed to T-20.
- Allocated to IAF Technical College, Jalahali.
Warbirds of GB Ltd, Blackbushe, 1978.
- Recovered from Bangalore.
- Arrived crated, May 26, 1978.
Doug Arnold/Warbirds of GB Ltd, December 29, 1979.
- Registered as G-BGHB.
Doug Arnold/Warbirds of GB Ltd, Blackbushe, March 2, 1979-1985.
- Registered as G-SPIT.
Patina Ltd/The Fighter Collection, Duxford, September 1985-2002.
- Restored, Duxford.
- First flight at Duxford, August 14, 1992.
- Initially flown as MV293/OI-C (repainted at Duxford as MV268/JE-J, 2000).
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Photo Source(s):
Peter Still - STILL Photography.
Nigel Roling - Pentavia Digital Imaging, http://website.lineone.net/~roling46/, 2002
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