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SPITFIRE/TE308



Serial #: TE308
Construction #:
  CBAF.4494
Civil Registration:
  G-AWGB
  CF-RAF
  C-FRAF
  N92477
  N308WK
  Model(s):
  Spitfire HF Mk. IXe
  Mk. Tr 9
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2006

History:
Vickers Armstrongs Ltd, Eastleigh, 1950-1951.
Delivered to Irish Air Corps as 163.
- BOC: July 30, 1951.
- SOC: 1968.
- Instructional airframe, Baldonnel AB, Eire, 1961-1968.
N.A.W. Samuelson/Samuelson Film Services, Elstree, May 8, 1968-1969.
- Registered as G-AWGB.
- Delivered from Baldonnel AB, May 8, 1968.
- Flown in movie Battle Of Britain, 1968.
Sir W.J.D. Roberts, Shoreham, December 1969-1970.
Don Plumb, Windsor, Ontario, July 16, 1970-1975.
- Shipped to Toronto, Ontario, October 9, 1970.
- Registered as CF-RAF, December 1970.
- Converted to single seat configuration by fairing over second cockpit.
- Registered as C-FRAF, 1975.
Thomas J. Watson/Owls Head Transport Museum, Owls Head, ME, 1975-1979.
- Registered as N92477.
Woodson K. Woods, Scottsdale, AZ, October 7, 1979-1983.
- Registered as N308WK.
- Converted back to two-seat configuration (2nd cockpit was still in place).
- Displayed at Carefree Aviation Museum, Scottsdale, AZ.
William S. Greenwood, Aspen, CO, August 23, 1983-2006.
- Flown as RAF/TE308/RJ-M.




After conversion to single seater by Don Plumb, Circa 1974.

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.
Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2006.
Photo Source(s):
Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2003
Unknown.
Pat Carry.

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