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Serial #: PV270 Construction #: CBAF. IX3128 Civil Registration: ZK-SPI |
Model(s): Spitfire LF Mk. IXc Spitfire LF Mk. IX E Name: None Status: Airworthy Last info: 2015 |
Built at Castle Bromwich, September 1944.
Delivered to Royal Air Force, circa 1944.
- Accepted by 9 Maintenance Unit, Cosford, September 28, 1944.
- Transferred to 82 Maintenance Unit, Lichfield, October 13, 1944.
- Transferred to RAF Mediterranean Air Force.
-- Shipped from Liverpool to Casablanca, October 21-November 3, 1944.
- Allocated to 111 Squadron as JU-F.
- Transferred to 225 Army Cooperation Squadron as WU-J.
- Possibly transferred to 253 Squadron.
- Delivered to 225 Squadron, Peretola Airfield, Florence from 357 Maintenance Unit
at Jesi, Italy as a LF IX E, January 28, 1945.
- Transferred to 110 Maintenance Unit, Brindisi, March 16, 1945.
- Put into storage at Treviso San Giuseppe at wars end.
Delivered to Italian AF as MM4014, February 16, 1947.
- Allocated to 5o Stormo, Vicenza, June 1947 to at least December 1947.
- Possibly transferred to 51o Stormo at Treviso.
- Returned to Vickers Armstrongs on December 5, 1949.
- Sold by Italy to Israel.
Delivered to IDFAF as 20-80, January 1953.
- Accepted by Israeli Maintenance Unit at Foggia.
- Assigned to 20 Wing, February 1953.
- Transferred to 107 Squadron, Ramat David, April-May 1953.
- Transferred to 107 Squadron, Ramat David, December 1953-January 1954.
Delivered to Burmese AF as UB424, April 1954.
- Ferried from Israel to Burma, circa early 1955.
- Accepted by Burmese AF, March 3, 1955.
- Put into storage, circa January 1956.
- Hmawbi AB, Rangoon, 1970-1995.
-- Displayed on pole as "UB425".
- Moved to Mingadalon AFB as part of Burma Air Force Museum, 1995.
David Gouldsmith/Golden Aviation, Cassville, MO, 1999.
Brendon Deere, New Zealand, 2001-2015.
- Restored by ITL Aviation, Fielding Aerodrome.
- Intended scheme of Alan Deere’s personal Mk 9 Spitfire when he was Wing Leader at Biggin Hill.
- Registered as ZK-SPI.
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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): Deere, Brendon - Brenden Deere's Aviation Photos. Gavin Conroy via Brendon Deere. Ian McDonnell. Research Assistance: Deere, Brendon - Brenden Deere's Aviation Photos |
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