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Serial #: MA793 Construction #: Unknown Civil Registration: N930LB Model: HF Mk. IXe Name: None Status: Airworthy Last info: 2002 Note: Only Spitfire exsisting known to have flown with USAAF. |
History: Delivered to RAF as MA793, 19??. - Assigned to 6 MU in July 1943. Transferred to USAAF as MA793 - BOC: Oct. 31, 1943 - SOC: May 1944. Delivered to South African Air Force 5601, Sept. 30, 1948. Meerhof Hospital for Handicapped Children, Pretoria. Apr. 27, 1954-1967. - Displayed in playground. Larry Barnett & Alan Lurie, Johannesburg, 1967-1986. - Rebuilt to flying condition. - First flight Aug. 29, 1975, Johannesburg-Jan Smuts. - Flown as SAAF PT672/WR-RR. - Loaned to SAAF, Lanseria AB, 1976-1986. Larry Barnett International California, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, July 14, 1986-1999. - Shipped to Chino, CA, first flight Jan. 1, 1987. - Operated by David G. Price/Museum Of Flying, Santa Monica, CA Aug. 1986-1999. -- Flown as RAF/EN398/JE-J Rolls Royce PLC, Filton, UK, 1999. Transportes Aereos Regional- TAM/Wings Of Dreams Museum, Sao Carlos, Brazil, 1999-2002. - Sipped to Brazil from Camarillo, CA, Jan. 2000. - First flight, Jundai, Brazil, May 3, 2002. - Flown as EN398-JE-J. |
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): Unknown.
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