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SPITFIRE/P9444

Serial #: P9444
Construction #:
  6S/30613
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: Mark Ia
Name: None
Status: Display
Last info: 2002
   History:
Delivered to RAF as P9444, 19??.
- Assigned to 72 Squadron.
- Flew in Battle Of Britain.
- Crashed July 3, 1940.
- Moved to No 1 Civilian repair unit.
- Never flew operationally again.
- Stored RAF Cardiff, Aug. 1944.
-- Stored for future museum use.
RAF Newark, 1951
Science Museum Store, Sydenham, London, Dec. 16, 1954-1963
Science Museum, South Kensington, London, 1963-2002
- Restored and displayed in 72 Squadron markings as P9444/RN-D.

Circa 1949.
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):
Peter Still - STILL Photography.
Robert Rudhall Collection.