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SPITFIRE/JG668



Serial #: JG668
Construction #:
  Unknown
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: LF Mk. VIII
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2005
  History:
Delivered to RAF as JG668, Mar. 30, 1944.
- Transferred to RAAF, arrived Sydney, June 19, 1944.
Delivered to RAAF as A58-441.
- BOC: July 1944.
- SOC: May 22, 1946.
- Assigned to No. 1 AD, July 6, 1944.
- Transferred to No. 14 ARD-R/P. Sept. 6, 1944.
- Transferred to No. 9 R&SU, Oct. 23, 1944.
- Transferred to No. 14 ARD-R/P. Nov. 23, 1944.
- Transferred to No. 6 AD, Oct. 1, 1945.
- Stored (later scrapped) RAAF Oakey, Queensland, Nov. 7, 1947-Nov. 15, 1948.
Ross Campbell, Toowoomba, Queensland, 19??.
- Hulk recovered from farm near Oakey, Queensland.
Barry Coran, Melbourne, Victoria, 19??.
Ian Mastin, Hoppers Crossing, Victoria, 1996-2004.
- Substantial components, restoration project.
Jon Radford, Oxford, UK, 2004-2005.
- Shipped to UK, 2004.
- Restoration continued.

Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Spitfire International, (Air-Britain Publication/ISBN 0-85130-250-5).
Jon Radford.
Photo Source(s):
Jon Radford.