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Serial #: MJ627 Construction #: CBAF.7722 Civil Registration: G-ASOZ G-BMSB Model(s): LF Mk. IX Tr Mk. 9 Name: None Status: Airworthy Last info: 2004  Additional Images. |
History: Built as Mk. IX at Castle Bromwich. Delivered to RAF as MJ627. - BOC: Dec. 4, 1943. - Allocated to 441 Squadron (RCAF). -- Credited with a Bf 109. - Sold back to Vickers after war. Vickers Armstrong Ltd, Eastleigh, UK, 1950-1951. - Converted to T.9. Delivered to Irish Air Corps as IAC 158. - BOC: June 5, 1951. J. Crewdson/Film Aviation Services, Biggin Hill, 1963. - Arrived disassembled, Biggin Hill, Nov. 13, 1963. - Stored dismantled. Film Aviation Services Ltd, Elstree, Feb. 19, 1964. - Registered as G-ASOZ. Tim A. Davis, Elstree, Sept. 1964-1967. - Stored dismantled. John Fairey, Stockbridge, Dec. 1967-1978. - Stored dismantled. Maurice S. & Peter K. Bayliss, Coventry, May 3, 1978-2004. - Registered as G-BMSB. - Rebuilt to airworthy, Kenilworth, (later Coventry). - Engine run Feb. 1992. - First flight Nov. 1993. - Crashed in Coventry, April 25, 1998. -- Damaged during wheels up landing caused by undercarraige failure. -- No injuries. - Repaired. - Flown as MJ627/9G-P. |
Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. Flypast - No. 204, July 1998, Pg. 9, www.flypast.com Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003. 2004 spotting report - Robert Weenk Photo Source(s): FP - Duncin Cubitt, L. Hatton.
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