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Serial #: MA793 Construction #: Unknown Civil Registration: N930LB |
Model: Spitfire HF Mk. IXe Name: None Status: Airworthy Last info: 2002 Note: Only Spitfire exsisting known to have flown with USAAF. |
Delivered to Royal Air Force as MA793, 19??.
- Assigned to 6 MU in July 1943.
Transferred to USAAF as MA793
- BOC: October 31, 1943
- SOC: May 1944.
Delivered to South African Air Force 5601, September 30, 1948.
Meerhof Hospital for Handicapped Children, Pretoria. April 27, 1954-1967.
- Displayed in playground.
Larry Barnett & Alan Lurie, Johannesburg, 1967-1986.
- Rebuilt to flying condition.
- First flight August 29, 1975, Johannesburg-Jan Smuts.
- Flown as SAAF PT672/WR-RR.
- Loaned to SAAF, Lanseria AB, 1976-1986.
Larry Barnett International California, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, July 14, 1986-1999.
- Shipped to Chino, CA, first flight January 1, 1987.
- Operated by David G. Price/Museum Of Flying, Santa Monica, CA August 1986-1999.
-- Flown as RAF/EN398/JE-J
Rolls Royce PLC, Filton, UK, 1999.
Transportes Aereos Regional- TAM/Wings Of Dreams Museum, Sao Carlos, Brazil, 1999-2002.
- Sipped to Brazil from Camarillo, CA, January 2000.
- First flight, Jundai, Brazil, May 3, 2002.
- Flown as EN398-JE-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.
Photo Source(s):
Unknown.
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