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Serial #: RX168 Construction #: Unknown Civil Registration: G-BWEM |
Model: Seafire L Mk. III Name: None Status: Restoration Last info: 2002 |
Delivered to Irish Air Corps as 157, September 27, 1947.
- WFU and used as instructional airframe, Baldonnel AB, Dublin, October 1953-1961.
College of Technology, Dublin, March 11, 1961-1962.
Reported broken up & scrapped, 1962.
Charles Church & Dick Melton, Winchester, 19??.
- Basis of new build Seafire project.
Hull Aero, Norfolk, 19??.
- Restoration project.
Chris Warrillow, High Wycombe, UK, 1989-2002
- Restoring to airworthiness, Bourne Park.
- Registered as G-BWEM, June 28, 1995.
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. |
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