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SPITFIRE/X4590

Serial #: X4590
Construction #:
  6S/81254
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: Mark Ia
Name: None
Status: Display
Last info: 2002
   History:
Delivered to 609 Squadron at Warmwell, Oct. 8, 1940.
- Flew during Battle Of Britain.
- Credited with half share of Ju 88 on Oct. 21, 1940.
Transferred to 66 Squadron in 1941.
Subsequently transferred to 303 Squadron, 53 OTU, and 57 OTU.
Transferred to 3 MU in March 1944.
Passed through 52 MU then allocated to RAF Exhibition Flight.
RAF Cardiff, for exhibition use, Aug. 28, 1944.
RAF Air Historical Branch Collection, 1954.
RAF Bicester, traveling exhibit, 1960-1966.
RAF Museum, RAF Cosford, 1977-1978.
RAF Museum, Hendon, 1978-2002.
- Displayed as X4590/PR-F of 609 Squadron.

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.