Private Supermarine Spitfire LF.Vc LZ844
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Operator: Private - LZ844
Aircraft: Supermarine - Spitfire LF.Vc
Airport: UK - England - Kemble (EGBP)
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2011-9-17 by Uwe Deffner [Contact]
Camera setting: Canon EOS 450D, 1/200s, f/5.6 at 112mm ISO 200
Photographer's remark
(19.9.2011, 09:17 CET)
This is only one of two Spitfire Mk V still in existence. This one is New Zealand registered and is currently in Kemble for restoration.
Previous history:
Serial #: LZ844
Construction #:
Unknown
Civil Registration:
None
Model: F Mk. Vc
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last info: 2002
History:
Delivered to RAAF as A58-213.
- BOC: July 1943.
- SOC: Apr. 13, 1951.
N. Monty Armstrong, Auckland, NZ, 1974-1980.
- Forward fuselage hulk recovered from Kiriwina, Soloman Island, 1974.
Barry Coran, Melbourne, Victoria (later Cairns, Queensland), Australia, 1980-2002
- Hulk shipped from NZ to Point Cook.
- Composite restoration for static display, RAAF Pt. Cook, 1980-1996.
- Rolled out, Dec. 23, 1996 as "R6915/PR-U".
- Loaned to RAAF Museum, RAAF Pt. Cook, Victoria, 1997-200.
- Stored, RAAF Pt. Cook, 2000-200.
- Offerd for sale.
- Trucked to Essendon Airport, Melbourne, Oct. 20, 2002.
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