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SPITFIRE/PT879



Serial #: RK879
Construction #:
  Unknown
Civil Registration:
  G-BYDE
  Model:
  Spitfire F Mk. IX
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2002

History:
Delivered to Soviet AF as PT879.
- BOC: October 1944.
- SOC: 1945.
- Shipped to Russia, arriving at Murmansk, October 30, 1944.
- Crashed on Kola Penninsulam 1945.
Recovered from Russian crash site.
Angela Soper, Romford, Essex, UK, 1998-2002
- Hulk arrived at Isle Of Wight, March 16, 1998.
- Restoration to airworthy.
- Registered as G-BYDE, November 1998.

Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Photo Source(s):
None.


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