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MK356 Spitfire XVIe

Stripped down to its basic components at Abingdon in September 1990 for eventual assignment to the RAF BBMF.

 

This aircraft was a combat veteran and also flew operationally on D-Day in June 1944. Very sadly, this aircraft crashed near its base at Coningsby on 25 May 2024. The pilot lost his life in the accident. I believe this is the first aircrew fatality in the long history of the BBMF.

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Uploaded on June 16, 2009
Taken in September 1990