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Serial #: EN474 Construction #: 6S-171652 Civil Registration: None |
Model: Spitfire Mk. VIIc Name: None Status: Static Display Last info: 2017 |
Ordered as part of order B19713/39, August 23, 1941.
Built by Supermarine Aviation at the Eastleigh facility, Southampton.
- Merlin 64 fitted.
- First flight, March 6, 1943.
Delivered to Royal Air Force, 1943.
- Allocated to USAAF, 1943.
- 47 MU, RAF Sealand, March 13, 1943.
- Despatched to USA aboard the SS Glenapp for evaluation purposes, April 10, 1943.
- Arrived New York, May 2, 1943.
Transferred to United States Army Air Force, 1943.
- Issued evaluation number 161522, then later FE-400.
- Issued to US Army Headquarters on transfer.
- Freeman Field, Indiana, 1945.
- Allocated for museum purposes.
National Air & Space Museum, 1947-2017.
- Stored, Park Ridge IL.
- Moved along with rest of NASM collection to Silver Hill MD, 1950s.
- Removed from storage and assembled, 1969.
- Restored to static display condition, 1974.
- On display at the NASM facility on the Mall, Washington DC, from 1976.
- Displayed as ‘EN474’, no codes.
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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): Johnny Comstedt Research Assistance: John Sanderson. |
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