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SPITFIRE/P9374
Supermarine Spitfire P9374
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Serial #: P9374
Construction #:
  6S/30565
Civil Registration:
  G-MKIA
   Model: Spitfire Mk. Ia
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2013
History:
Ordered as part of contract B980385/39, April 20, 1939.
Built by Supermarine Aviation, Southampton, 1940.
- Merlin III fitted.
- First flight from Eastleigh, February 23, 1940.
Delivered to the Royal Air Force as P9374, 1940.
- 9 MU, RAF Cosford, March 2, 1940.
- Transferred to 92 Sqn RAF Hornchurch, March 6, 1940.
- Allocated and wore individual code letter J, but Sqn codes GR- not worn as they had yet to be applied to the airframe.
- Failed to return from Op’s / Shot down and landed on beach, Calais, France, May 24, 1940.
- Total flying hours = 32.05
- P/O Peter Cazenove survived and became a prisoner of war.
Musee de l'Air, Le Bourget, France, 1981.
- Airframe recovered from beach, Calais, France, September 1980.
- Airframe stored.
Jean Frelaut, Vannes, France, 1996.
- Airframe stored.
- Parts used in restoration of Seafire Mk.III PP972.
Simon Marsh & Thomas Kaplan, Isle of Wight, UK, 2000.
- Registered as G-MKIA, Nov. 16, 2000.
- Stored, Isle of Wight, UK.
- Stored, Essex, UK.
Spitfire Partners LLC, March 3, 2005.
- Re-registered as G-MKIA
- Restoration commenced with Historic Flying Ltd, Duxford. Aug. 2007.
- Fuselage constructed at Airframe Assemblies, Isle of Wight.
Mark One Partners LLC, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, 2008-2013.
- Re-registered as G-MKIA, August 13, 2008.
- First engine runs, June 17, 2011.
- First taxy trials, July 21, 2011.
- First post-restoration flight, with John Romain at the controls, September 9, 2011.
- Flies in the exact colours she wore when shot down on May 24, 1940. ‘P9374 / -J’.

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.
 Video/Photo Source(s):
Richard Hall
Philippe Osche
Peter Green
Rochford Aviation Films via Youtube
Research Assistance:
John Sanderson
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