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Serial #: ML407 Construction #: CBAF.8463 Civil Registration: G-LFIX |
Model(s): Spitfire Spitfire LF Mk. IX TR Mk. 9 Name: None Status: Airworthy Last info: 2002 |
Vickers Armstrongs Ltd, Eastleigh, July 19, 1950-1951.
- Converted to TR Mk. 9 at Hrusley Park.
- First flight, Eastleigh, July 24, 1951.
Delivered to Irish Air Corps as 162, July 30, 1951-1968.
- Last operational flight, July 8, 1960.
- Instructional airframe, stored Disassembled, Baldonnel AB, 1962-1968.
N. A. W. Samuelson/Samuelson Films, Cricklewood, London, March 1968-1970.
- Stored disassembled.
Sir W. J. D. Roberts, Shoreham (later Strathallan Collection) Scotland, April 23, 1970-1979.
- Stored disassembled.
E. Nick Grace, St. Merryn, Cornwall, August 9, 1979.
E. Nick Grace/Island Trading Ltd., St. Merryn, February 1, 1980-1985.
- Registered as G-LFIX.
- Rebuilt to airworthiness, First flight St. Merryn, April 16, 1985.
Nick Grace & Chris Horsely, Middle Wallop, 1985-1989.
- Crash landed, South End, March 5, 1986. Repaired.
Caroline S. Grace, Winchester/Duxford, May 26, 1989-2002.
- Flown as ML407/OU-V Aon (starboard) & NL-D(port)
- Minor Damage from taxying accident, Duxford, (repaired, March 31, 2000.
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):
Dave Stewart
Peter Still - STILL Photography.
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