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SPITFIRE/BR545

Serial #: BR545
Construction #:
  3155
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: F Mk. Vc
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last info: 1995
   History:
Delivered to RAF as BR545.
- BOC: July 1942.
- Assigned to 45 MU, July 13, 1942.
- Transferred to 47 MU, July 29, 1942.
- Shipped to Australia onboard SS Hoperiidge, Aug. 1942.
Delivered to RAAF as A68-51.
- BOC: Oct. 23, 1942.
- Ditched, Prince Regent River, Kimberly, Western Australia, Dec. 24, 1943.
RAAF Museum, Point Cook, Victoria, Dec. 1987-1995.
- Recovered Dec. 1987.
- Hulk stored.
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.
Gerry Butler.
 Photo Source(s):
None.