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SPITFIRE/BR491

Serial #: BR491
Construction #:
  Unknown
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: F Mk. Vc
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2002
   History:
Delivered to RAF as BR491, 19??.
- ditched in sea off Alexandria, Egypt, Oct. 10, 1942.
Hulk recovered from sea, July 1999.
El Alamein Military Museum, Egypt, 2001-2002.
- Displayed as salvaged without rear fuselage or tail.
Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
 Photo Source(s):
Peter Arnold.