Supermarine Spitfire

Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXc PV270.

History:

Built at Castle Bromwich, September 1944.

Delivered to Royal Air Force, circa 1944.

- Accepted by 9 Maintenance Unit, Cosford, September 28, 1944.

- Transferred to 82 Maintenance Unit, Lichfield, October 13, 1944.

- Transferred to RAF Mediterranean Air Force.

-- Shipped from Liverpool to Casablanca, October 21-November 3, 1944.

- Allocated to 111 Squadron as JU-F.

- Transferred to 225 Army Cooperation Squadron as WU-J.

- Possibly transferred to 253 Squadron.

- Delivered to 225 Squadron, Peretola Airfield, Florence from 357 Maintenance Unit

at Jesi, Italy as a LF IX E, January 28, 1945.

- Transferred to 110 Maintenance Unit, Brindisi, March 16, 1945.

- Put into storage at Treviso San Giuseppe at wars end.

Delivered to Italian AF as MM4014, February 16, 1947.

- Allocated to 5o Stormo, Vicenza, June 1947 to at least December 1947.

- Possibly transferred to 51o Stormo at Treviso.

- Returned to Vickers Armstrongs on December 5, 1949.

- Sold by Italy to Israel.

Delivered to IDFAF as 20-80, January 1953.

- Accepted by Israeli Maintenance Unit at Foggia.

- Assigned to 20 Wing, February 1953.

- Transferred to 107 Squadron, Ramat David, April-May 1953.

- Transferred to 107 Squadron, Ramat David, December 1953-January 1954.

Delivered to Burmese AF as UB424, April 1954.

- Ferried from Israel to Burma, circa early 1955.

- Accepted by Burmese AF, March 3, 1955.

- Put into storage, circa January 1956.

- Hmawbi AB, Rangoon, 1970-1995.

-- Displayed on pole as "UB425".

- Moved to Mingadalon AFB as part of Burma Air Force Museum, 1995.

David Gouldsmith/Golden Aviation, Cassville, MO, 1999.

Brendon Deere, New Zealand, 2001-2015.

- Restored by ITL Aviation, Fielding Aerodrome.

- Intended scheme of Alan Deere’s personal Mk 9 Spitfire when he was Wing Leader at Biggin Hill.

- Registered as ZK-SPI.

 

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