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Serial #: RM797 Construction #: 6S/432296 Civil Registration: VH-XIV |
Model: Spitfire F Mk. XIVe Name: None Status: Restoration Last info: 2005 |
Delivered to Royal Thai AF as U14-16/93, 1950.
- Displayed, Province Administration building, Surin, circa 1950s.
- Derelict, Surin AB, Thailand.
Gary Cooper, Hong Kong (later Sydney, NSW) May 24, 1973-2002.
- Recovered from Surin AB.
- Airfreightered to Darwin, NT, August 19, 1973.
- Damaged during Cyclone "Tracy", Darwin, NT, December 25, 1974.
- Stored, August 1973-1977.
- Registered as VH-XIV.
- Restoration to airworthy begun, 1977.
-- Work carried out at Albury and Sydney, NSW.
Randal W. McFarlane, Brisbane, Queensland, May 2002-2005.
- Restoration project.
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):
Randal McFarlane.
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