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SEAFIRE/RX168



Serial #: RX168
Construction #:
  Unknown
Civil Registration:
  G-BWEM
  Model:
  Seafire L Mk. III
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2002

History:
Delivered to Irish Air Corps as 157, September 27, 1947.
- WFU and used as instructional airframe, Baldonnel AB, Dublin, October 1953-1961.
College of Technology, Dublin, March 11, 1961-1962.
Reported broken up & scrapped, 1962.
Charles Church & Dick Melton, Winchester, 19??.
- Basis of new build Seafire project.
Hull Aero, Norfolk, 19??.
- Restoration project.
Chris Warrillow, High Wycombe, UK, 1989-2002
- Restoring to airworthiness, Bourne Park.
- Registered as G-BWEM, June 28, 1995.

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.
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