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Serial #: MJ772 Construction #: CBAF.7263 Civil Registration: G-AVAV N8R |
Model(s): Spitfire LF Mk. IX Spitfire Tr Mk. 9 Name: None Status: Display Last info: 2002 |
Vickers Armstrong Ltd, Eastleigh, 1950-1951.
- Rebuilt as Tr Mk. 9.
Delivered to Irish Air Corps as 159.
- BOC: June 5, 1951.
- SOC: 1963
J. Crewdson/Film Aviation Services, Biggin Hill, 1963.
- Stored dismantled.
COGEA Nouvelles, Ostend, Belgium, March 1964-1965.
- Airfreighted to Ostend, April 1, 1964.
- Stored dismantled.
N.A.W. Samuelson, Elstree, 1965-1970.
- Registered as G-AVAV, November 8, 1966.
- Shipped from Belgium.
- Rebuilt at Elstree.
- First Flight, July 1967.
- Flown in movie Battle of Britain
, 1968.- Crash landed, wheels up, Little Straughton, July 9, 1968.
- Repaired.
Sir W.J.D. Roberts, Shoreham, December 1969-1971.
Strathallan Collection, Auchterader, Scotland, December 1971-1974.
Doug Champlin/Windward Aviation, Enid, OK, December 13, 1974-1980.
- Registered as N8R.
Champlin Fighter Museum, Mesa, AZ, 1981-2000.
- Crashed Amarillo, TX on ferry flight to Mesa, AZ, 1981.
- Rebuilt at Mesa as single seater, 1992.
- First flight October 1985.
Boeing Museum Of Flight, Seattle, WA, 2000-2003.
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):
Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2003
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