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Serial #: P8332 Construction #: CBAF 711 Civil Registration: None |
Model: Spitfire Mk.IIb Name: None Status: Display Last info: 2008 |
Ordered as part of order B981687/39.
Built by Supermarine Aviation at the Castle Bromwich facility, Birmingham.
- Merlin XII fitted.
Delivered to Royal Air Force at P8332, 1941.
- TOC, March 20, 1941.
- Presentation aircraft "SOEBANG N.E.I.”, funded by the Netherlands East Indies.
- 45 MU, RAF Kinloss, April 29, 1941.
- 222 Sqn, May 25, 1941.
- Coded ZD-L.
- Air Service Training Ltd, Aug. 27, 1941.
- 8 MU, Little Rissington, Nov. 8, 1941.
- 82 MU, RAF Lichfield, for packing. Dec. 7, 1941.
- Allocated Maintenance serial 6173M.
- Official handover to RCAF, April 1, 1942.
Transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force
- Shipped from Liverpool to Canada aboard “SS Manchester Escort”
- Arrived Montreal, April 13, 1942.
- Accepted by RCAF, No.1 Training Command, Mountain View, Ontario, May 7, 1942.
- Allocated Maintenance serial A166, RCAF Rockcliffe (Ottawa), Ontario, May 7, 1942.
- Exhibited in front of Toronto City Hall, Nov. 4, 1943.
- No.2 Technical Training School, Camp Borden, Ontario. Marked A166. Nov. 20, 1947.
- Canadian National Exhibition, Aug-September 1957.
- Evidence of her wearing the Instructional Airframe serial 6173, Aug. 1959.
- Stored, 1960.
- RCAF Stn Uplands, Ottawa, Ontario, 1962.
- SOC, 1964.
- Allocated to the RCAF Museum Collection, Rockcliffe, Ontario, Dec. 6, 1964.
- Overhaul. No.6 RD Trenton, NE Toronto, Jan. 1966.
Canadian National Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe, 1966-2008.
- 145 Sqn colour scheme, with codes SO-P and name ‘Baron’ under cockpit, Dec. 1966.
- Displayed. Museum of Science & Technology, Ottawa, 1968-1986.
- Stored, Canadian National Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe, 1986.
- 222 Sqn colour scheme, with codes ZD-L.
- On loan, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, October 1989.
- Transferred to new War Museum, Ottawa, May 2006.
- Displayed in 222 Sqn colours as ‘P8332 / ZD-L / SOEBANG N.E.I.’.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Photo Source(s):
Steve Tournay
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