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SPITFIRE/P9444

Serial #: P9444
Construction #:
  6S/30613
Civil Registration:
  None
   Model:
  Spitfire Mk.Ia
Name: None
Status: Display
Last info: 2013
History:
Ordered as part of contract B980385/39
Built by Supermarine Aviation at the Wooston Works, Southampton, 1940
- Merlin III fitted.
- First flight from Eastleigh, April 2, 1940.
Delivered to the Royal Air Force as P94444, 1940.
- RAE, Farnborough for control system trials, April 3, 1940.
- 6 MU, RAF Brize Norton, May 23, 1940
- Assigned to 72 Squadron, June 4, 1940
- Flew in Battle Of Britain.
- Cat.3 damaged on landing following P/O Elliot passing out due to lack of oxygen, July 3, 1940.
- No.1 CRU (Civilian Repair Unit), Cowley, Oxford, for repair, July 12, 1940.
- Never again flew operationally.
- 45 MU, RAF Kinloss, March 14, 1941.
- 58 OTU, RAF Grangemouth, July 4, 1941
- 8 MU, RAF Little Rissington, June 18, 1942
- 61 OTU, RAF Rednall, Aug. 5, 1942
- AST, RAF Hamble, February 7, 1943
- 12 MU, RAF Kirkbride, March 31, 1943
- 53 OTU, RAF Kirton in Lindsey, May 12, 1943
- 39 MU, RAF Colerne, Nov. 28, 1943
- 82 MU. RAF Lichfield, May 11, 1944
- 52 MU, RAF Cardiff. Into long term storage. Aug. 1944.
- Allocated for display purposes, Aug. 28, 1949.
- RAF Newark, possibly displayed. 1951.
- Used in background scenes, along with K9942, in the 1952 movie Angels One Five.
Science Museum Store, Sydenham, London, December 16, 1954-1963
Science Museum, South Kensington, London, 1963-2013
- Restored to static display condition, 1961.
- Science Museum, South Kensington, London. 1963.
- Displayed in 72 Sqn markings ‘P9444/RN-D’.

Circa 1949.
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.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2013.
 Photo Source(s):
Peter Still - STILL Photography.
Robert Rudhall Collection.
Research Assistance:
John Sanderson
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