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Serial #: P7540 Construction #: Unknown Civil Registration: None |
Model: Spitfire Mk.IIa Name: None Status: Restoration Last info: 2010 |
Ordered as part of contract B981687/39.
Built by Supermarine Aviation at the Castle Bromwich facility, Birmingham.
- Merlin XII fitted.
Delivered to Royal Air Force as P7540, 1940.
- TOC, 6 MU, RAF Brize Norton, October 20, 1940.
- 66 Sqn, RAF West Malling, October 29, 1940.
- 609 (West Riding) Sqn, RAF Biggin Hill, February 24, 1941.
- 266 (Rhodesia) Sqn, RAF Wittering, June 14, 1941.
- 312 (Czech) Sqn, RAF Kenley, July 6, 1941.
- Coded DU-W.
- Sqn moved to RAF Martlesham Heath, July 20, 1941.
- Sqn moved to RAF Ayr, Aug. 19, 1941.
- Crashed into Loch Doon, Ayrshire, October 25, 1941.
- Diver ‘bumps’ into fuselage on the bottom of the Loch, May 15, 1982.
Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Group Museum, Dumfries, Scotland, 1982-2010.
- Fuselage, wings, and engine recovered from the Loch following MoD approval, June 1982.
- Initially stored at the Museum on the former RAF Dumfries site, Tinwald Downs, Dumfries.
- Moved to Polmont Young Offenders Institute. Some initial restoration work undertaken.
- Airframe returned to Museum, May 1997.
- Moved to the Aircraft Restoration & Engineering Group workshop, Ripon, Yorkshire, October 2009.
- Work continues to bring airframe up to static display condition.
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):
Peter Still - STILL Photography.
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