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SPITFIRE/LZ842



Serial #: LZ842
Construction #:
  CBAF 5056
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: F Mk. IX
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2002
  History:
Delivered to SAAF as ???
South African Metal & Machinery Co, Salt River, Cape Town, South Africa, 1954-1969.
- Forward fuselage hulk recovery by Larry Barnett, Johnnesberg, 1969.
SAAF Museum, 1978-1986.
- Stored, Lanseria AB.
Steve W. Atkins & Chris Warrillow, Oxford, UK, 1989.
Ross Campbell, Toowoomba, Queensland, 1991-2002.
- Fuselage only.
- Fuse restoration completed as RAF/LZ842/EF-D, 1998.
- Mounted on wings, 2001.
-- Port wing from Russia.
-- Starboard wing from UK.

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.
Photo Source(s):
None.