Spitfire (Total: 20,815, Canadian: 469, Group 469)
Supermarine Spitfire
Supermarine Spitfire Mk. VI, RCAF (Serial No. X4492), in flight, 26 Feb 1944.
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II. Many variants of the Spitfire were built, using several wing configurations, and it was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft. It was also the only British fighter produced continuously throughout the war. The Spitfire continues to be popular among enthusiasts; around 70 remain airworthy, and many more are static exhibits in aviation museums throughout the world.
The Spitfire was designed as a short-range, high-performance interceptor aircraft by R. J. Mitchell, chief designer at Supermarine Aviation Works, which operated as a subsidiary of Vickers-Armstrong from 1928. Mitchell pushed the Spitfire's distinctive elliptical wing with cutting-edge sunken rivets (designed by Beverley Shenstone) to have the thinnest possible cross-section, helping give the aircraft a higher top speed than several contemporary fighters, including the Hawker Hurricane.
The Spitfire had detachable wing tips which were secured by two mounting points at the end of each main wing assembly. When the Spitfire took on a role as a high-altitude fighter (Marks VI and VII and some early Mk VIIIs), the standard wing tips were replaced by extended, "pointed" tips which increased the wingspan from 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) to 40 ft 2 in (12.24 m). The other wing-tip variation, used by several Spitfire variants, was the "clipped" wing; the standard wing tips were replaced by wooden fairings which reduced the span by 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m). The wing tips used spruce formers for most of the internal structure with a light alloy skin attached using brass screws.
Due to a shortage of Brownings, which had been selected as the new standard rifle calibre machine gun for the RAF in 1934, early Spitfires were fitted with only four guns, with the other four fitted later. Early tests showed that, while the guns worked perfectly on the ground and at low altitudes, they tended to freeze at high altitude, especially the outer wing guns, because the RAF's Brownings had been modified to fire from an open bolt. While this prevented overheating of the cordite used in British ammunition, it allowed cold air to flow through the barrel unhindered. Supermarine did not fix the problem until October 1938, when they added hot air ducts from the rear of the wing-mounted radiators to the guns, and bulkheads around the gunbays to trap the hot air in the wing. Red fabric patches were doped over the gun ports to protect the guns from cold, dirt, and moisture until they were fired.
The first Rolls-Royce Griffon-engined Mk XII flew in August 1942, and first flew operationally with 41 Squadron in April 1943. This mark could nudge 400 mph (640 km/h) in level flight and climb to an altitude of 33,000 ft (10,000 m) in under nine minutes. As American fighters took over the long-range escorting of USAAF daylight bombing raids, the Griffon-engined Spitfires progressively took up the tactical air superiority role, and played a major role in intercepting V-1 flying bombs, while the Merlin-engined variants (mainly the Mk IX and the Packard-engined Mk XVI) were adapted to the fighter-bomber role. Although the later Griffon-engined marks lost some of the favourable handling characteristics of their Merlin-powered predecessors, they could still outmanoeuvre their main German foes and other, later American and British-designed fighters.Wikipedia
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RCAF Supermarine Spitfire Serials - Kestrel PublicationsSpitfire BS104, Mk IX
s/n BS104
c/n 3129
VA (Supermarine)
BS 104
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 27 July 1942, coded "YO*R". To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 25 January 1943. Lost on Ramrod 71 on 13 May 1943. Took off from Kenly, UK, crashed at Grevillers, 20 kilometres south of Arras. Flight Sergeant W.G. Uttley killed. Had 256:50 logged time when struck off.
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FF 09-07-194212MU 16-07-194272S 25-07-1942401S 'YO-R' 27-07-1942403S 25-01-1943AST 11-03-1943mods Shot down by fighters nr Doullens 13-05-1943FH256.5 Flight Sergeant W G Uttley killed
last update: 2025-February-05
Spitfire BS105, Mk IX
s/n BS105
c/n 3127
VA (Supermarine)
BS 105
Merlin 61
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FF 06-07-194239MU 07-07-194264S 25-07-1942C3 ops 03-08-1942AST 122S 14-01-1943340S 28-02-1943AST 11-03-1943mods 341S 26-03-1943Missing presumed shot down by Fw190s 20m E of Le Havre 17-04-1943Lt P M L Beraud killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS106, Mk VI
s/n BS106
c/n 3119
VA (Supermarine)
BS 106
Merlin 47
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FF 04-07-194245MU 05-07-194276MU 02-09-1942Ripley 08-09-1942Takoradi 03-10-1942Middle East 27-10-1942to reinforce BP985 high alt FV against Ju86P-2 sorties 103MU mods to FR with F.8 oblique camera SOC 26-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS107, Mk IX
s/n BS107
c/n 3145
VA (Supermarine)
BS 107
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 27 July 1942, coded "YO*C". Shot down by Fw190 over Dieppe during Operation Jubilee, afternoon of 19 August 1942. Pilot Sgt. L.J. Armstrong, POW.
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FF 05-07-194239MU 12-07-1942401S 27-07-1942Shot down by Fw190 nr Dieppe 19-08-1942
last update: 2025-February-05
Spitfire BS108, Mk VI
s/n BS108
c/n 3120
VA (Supermarine)
BS 108
Merlin 47
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FF 04-07-194233MU 05-07-1942616S 22-07-1942Shot down by fighters nr Boulogne 30-07-1942FH7.25
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS109, Mk IX
s/n BS109
c/n 3150
VA (Supermarine)
BS 109
Merlin 61
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FF 11-07-19428MU 13-07-1942611S 24-07-1942FAAC 26-07-1942GAL 122S 19-09-1942AST 21-12-1942mods dived into ground from high alt nr Chelmsford Essex CE 24-10-1943FH103.10
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS110, Mk IX
s/n BS110
c/n 3149
VA (Supermarine)
BS 110
Merlin 61
Walker:
Reported with No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, not confirmed.
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FF 08-07-19428MU 12-07-1942611S 25-07-1942CB ops 23-10-1942GAL 340S 18-03-1943403S 19-03-1943Shot down by Fw190s nr Rouen 04-04-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS111, Mk VI
s/n BS111
c/n 3130
VA (Supermarine)
BS 111
Merlin 47
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FF 09-07-194233MU 11-07-1942616S 'YQ-P' 01-08-19421406Flt 519S 08-02-1944[?] CAC ops 15-02-1944ros SOC 29-01-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS112, Mk IX
s/n BS112
c/n 3146
VA (Supermarine)
BS 112
Merlin 61
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FF 09-07-19428MU 12-07-1942611S 25-07-1942Crashed during low level attack nr Beutin 29-11-1942Flying Officer P E Helmore killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS113, Mk IX
s/n BS113
c/n 3158
VA (Supermarine)
BS 113
Merlin 61
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FF 12-07-19426MU 16-07-1942611S 24-07-1942Shot down by Fw190 off Dungeness 02-11-1942Flight Sergeant C W Keens killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS114, Mk VI
s/n BS114
c/n 3131
VA (Supermarine)
BS 114
Merlin 47
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FF 11-07-194233MU 12-07-1942616S 'YQ-A' 01-08-1942FAAC 28-08-1942Shot down by flak over Brest 15-04-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS115, Mk VI
s/n BS115
c/n 3142
VA (Supermarine)
BS 115
Merlin 47
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8MU 12-07-1942616S 'YQ-V' 20-08-1942CAC ops 21-10-1942HAL engine failed into sea off Christchurch Hants 22-08-1943FH182.15
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS116, Mk IX
s/n BS116
c/n 3157
VA (Supermarine)
BS 116
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 3 June 1943. Category B damage on operations on 14 March 1944. Left this unit by June 1944.
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FF 12-07-19426MU 16-07-1942611S 'FY-N' 24-07-1942FAAC 16-01-1943ros 403S 03-06-1943CB ops 14-03-1944GAL 274S 28-06-1944FLS 21-08-1945bou sold scrap 03-09-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS117, Mk VI
s/n BS117
c/n 3156
VA (Supermarine)
BS 117
Merlin 47
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FF 12-07-19428MU 14-07-1942616S 'YQ-T' 23-08-1942FACB 04-09-1942ASR sortie off Ile de Batz presumed shot down by Fw190 off Brittany 31-08-1943FH218.30 Flight Sergeant R McKillop killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS118, Mk IX
s/n BS118
c/n 3161
VA (Supermarine)
BS 118
Merlin 61
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FF 15-07-1942VAWD 17-07-194248hr trl AAEE 19-11-1942VAHPk comparison test with normal and large elev tabs 02-10-1943exhaust flame deflectors install directing hot gases to clear misted windscreen at alt service trials adjudged failure AAEE 26-11-1943trials for drag effect of 30gal overload tank on level speeds. Assisted takeoff trials (RATOG) and tail load at high mach numbers. Took over program from EN498 dived to Mach .89 from 40000ft AST 20-06-194433MU 14-10-1944VA 01-12-1944sold to R J Coley 03-02-1950
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS119, Mk IX
s/n BS119
c/n 3170
VA (Supermarine)
BS 119
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 27 July 1942. Shot down by Fw 190s over Dieppe on 19 August 1942, during Circus 205. Pilot Officer D.R. Morrison rescued from the Channel.
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FF 16-07-194233MU 21-07-194272S 24-07-1942401S 27-07-1942Shot down by fighters nr Dieppe 19-08-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS120, Mk IX
s/n BS120
c/n 3177
VA (Supermarine)
BS 120
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flew on 19 July 1942. Delivered new to No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 27 July 1942. Damaged by Fw 190s over the Channel during Circus 204 to Rouen/Sotteville on 17 August 1942, Squadron Leader K.L.B. Hodson returned to base unhurt. Also damaged by return fire from a Do 217 during Circus 205 to Abbeville airport on 19 August 1942, Flight Sergeant B.M. Zobell wounded. With No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF when lost in the afternoon of 4 April 1943. Failed to return from Ramrod to Rouen. Sgt. L.J. Deschamos killed.
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FF 19-07-194233MU 21-07-194272S 24-07-1942401S 27-07-1942Hit in attack on Do217 during Dieppe Raid CB 19-08-1942GAL 403S Shot down by Fw190 nr Rouen 04-04-1943Flight Sergeant L J Deschamps killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS121, Mk VII
s/n BS121
c/n 3252
VA (Supermarine)
BS 121
Merlin 61
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FF 12-08-1942CRD WD 05-09-1942HA Flt Northolt 23-09-1942123S 25-01-1943major repair 22-05-1944recat E 15-06-1944First prod aircraft to RAF
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS122, Mk IX
s/n BS122
c/n 3185
VA (Supermarine)
BS 122
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 20 July 1942. Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 28 July 1942. Shot down by Fw190s of JG26 near Bolbec in the afternoon of 24 August 1942, while escorting USAAF B-17s on raid to ship yards at Le Trait, Circus 208. Pilot Officer G.P. McKay killed.
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FF 21-07-194233MU 23-07-1942402S 28-07-1942Shot down by fighters nr Yvetot 24-08-1942Pilot Officer G P McKay killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS123, Mk IX
s/n BS123
c/n 3186
VA (Supermarine)
BS 123
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 12 July 1942. Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 28 July 1942. Category Ac damage on operations on 24 August 1942. Left this unit by February 1943.
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FF 21-07-194233MU 23-07-1942402S 28-07-1942CAC ops 24-08-1942GAL 340S 20-02-1943AST 17-03-1943mods 341S 26-03-1943Armee de l'Air Damaged by Fw190 and abandoned nr Caen 17-05-1943S/Chef Y Bourges killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS124, Mk VI
s/n BS124
c/n 3192
VA (Supermarine)
BS 124
Merlin 47
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FF 23-07-194215MU 26-07-194276MU 02-09-1942Ripley 08-09-1942Middle East 28-10-1942to reinforce BP985 high alt FV against Ju86P-2 sorties FAC2 12-12-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS125, Mk IX
s/n BS125
c/n 3193
VA (Supermarine)
BS 125
Merlin 61
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FF 23-07-19426MU 24-07-1942611S 24-07-1942331S 'FN-R' 04-04-1943AST 16-08-1943CB ops 03-10-1943ros 313S 05-09-1944611S 03-10-1944312S 22-03-1945ASTE 03-04-1945SAAF 28-04-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS126, Mk IX
s/n BS126
c/n 3200
VA (Supermarine)
BS 126
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 1 April 1943. Left this unit for modifications on 4 April 1943. to No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 20 May 1943. Left this unit by 19 September 1943. Survived the war, sold as scrap in 1947.
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FF 24-07-19426MU 28-07-194264S 14-09-1942CAC ops 10-11-1942GAL 416S 01-04-1943AST mods 04-04-1943421S 20-05-1943310S 'NN-Z' 19-09-1943CAC ops 26-09-1943ros sold VA 30-04-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS127, Mk IX
s/n BS127
c/n 3201
VA (Supermarine)
BS 127
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 25 July 1942. Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 3 August 1942, coded "AE*V". Left this unit for modifications on 7 March 1943. To No. 416 Squadron, RCAF on 23 March 1943. Category AB damage on operations on 13 May 1943. Left this unit by February 1944. Survived the war, sold as scrap on 27 October 1949.
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FF 25-07-19426MU 26-07-1942402S 03-08-1942AST 07-03-1943mods M63 install 416S 23-03-1943CB ops 13-05-1943GAL 165S 11-02-1944131S 19-03-1944313S 30-08-1944611S 08-10-1944310S 22-03-1945VA mods 312S 27-08-1945sold scrap H.Bath 27-10-1949
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS128, Mk IX
s/n BS128
c/n 3194
VA (Supermarine)
BS 128
Merlin 61
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FF 23-07-1942611S 25-07-1942FAAC 20-12-1942ros AST 26-01-1943mods M63 install 340S 20-02-1943341S 26-03-1943AST 11-04-1943mods FACB 26-06-1943AST 274S 15-05-1944FAAC 07-08-1944ros 86MU 03-09-1944Armee de l'Air 10-04-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS129, Mk IX
s/n BS129
c/n 3212
VA (Supermarine)
BS 129
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 3 May 1943. To No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 20 May 1943. Category AC damage on operations on 3 October 1943, during Ramrod 258 Part 1. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 24 October 1943. Left this unit by June 1944. Survived the war, to Greek AF in 1948.
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FF 27-07-19428MU 27-07-1942133S 12-08-1942331S 29-09-1942CB ops 19-11-1942GAL 416S 03-05-1943421S 20-05-1943CAC ops 03-10-1943403S 24-10-194333S 01-06-1944FAAC 16-06-1944ros 611S 19-09-1944312S 08-10-1944VAO 26-10-1944mods 340S CAC ops 13-04-1945RHAF 20-04-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS130, Mk IX
s/n BS130
c/n 3213
VA (Supermarine)
BS 130
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 31 July 1942. Category AC damage on operations on 24 August 1942. Lost on operations 17 January 1943.
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FF 30-07-19428MU 402S 31-07-1942CAC ops 24-08-1942Shot down by fighters nr Bolbec 17-01-1943Pilot Officer A M Skinner killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS131, Mk IX
s/n BS131
c/n 3217
VA (Supermarine)
BS 131
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 4 August 1942. Category B damage on operations 6 September 1942. Left this unit by April 1943.
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FF 01-08-1942402S 04-08-1942CB ops 06-09-1942GAL 341S 06-04-1943AST 21-04-1943mods 28-07-194358OTU 08-04-1945Armee de l'Air 16-09-1946collision with ML422 19-06-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS132, Mk IX
s/n BS132
c/n 3219
VA (Supermarine)
BS 132
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 5 August 1942. Lost during combat with JG26 on 4 December 1942 during a Rodeo mission. F/Sgt. R.B. Honeycombe, an American in the RCAF, killed.
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FF 04-08-1942402S 05-08-1942Shot down by fighters nr Guines 04-12-1942Flight Sergeant R B Honeycombe killed (American)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS133, Mk VI
s/n BS133
c/n 3239
VA (Supermarine)
BS 133
Merlin 47
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FF 11-08-19426MU 13-08-194276MU 01-09-1942Ripley 08-09-1942Middle East 28-10-1942to reinforce BP985 high alt FV against Ju86P-2 sorties SOC 26-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS134, Mk VI
s/n BS134
c/n 3263
VA (Supermarine)
BS 134
Merlin 47
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FF 16-08-19426MU 18-08-194276MU 01-09-1942Ripley 08-09-1942Middle East 28-10-1942to reinforce BP985 high alt FV against Ju86P-2 sorties SOC 29-08-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS135, Mk IX
s/n BS135
c/n 3222
VA (Supermarine)
BS 135
Merlin 61
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FF 07-08-1942RAF Kenley 08-08-1942Missing presumed shot down nr Bolbec 17-01-1943W/C J C Fee DFC killed (Kenley Wing Leader)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS136, Mk IX
s/n BS136
c/n 3223
VA (Supermarine)
BS 136
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 9 August 1942. Shot down by Fw 190s of JG26 near Bolbec on 24 August 1942, while escorting USAAF B-17s on raid to ship yards at Le Trait. Sgt. V.H. Miller killed.
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FF 06-08-1942402S 09-08-1942Shot down by fighters nr Yvetot 24-08-1942Flight Sergeant V H Miller killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS137, Mk IX
s/n BS137
c/n 3240
VA (Supermarine)
BS 137
Merlin 61
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FF 11-08-1942133S 'MD-D' 12-08-1942331S 29-09-1942FACB 05-01-1943GAL CAC on ff to 6MU 02-05-1943ros 222S 11-06-1943AST 16-06-1943mods AAEE as rogue aircraft from 22S rigged out of trim laterally with heavy ailerons 405ARF 24-08-1943131S 27-09-1943229S 25-06-1944FAAC 29-06-1944ros 504S 03-08-1944611S 03-08-1944swung to port undercarriage collapse landing CE Coltishall 13-09-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS138, Mk IX
s/n BS138
c/n 3231
VA (Supermarine)
BS 138
Merlin 61
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FF 09-08-1942133S 11-08-1942Ran out of fuel and forcelanded in Brittany 26-09-1942Pilot Officer GG Wright PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS139, Mk IX
s/n BS139
c/n 3248
VA (Supermarine)
BS 139
Merlin 61
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FF 12-08-1942AAEE 14-08-1942carbon monoxide cockpit contam tests 27-09-1942fuel syst trials 10-1942intensive fly trials 05-11-1942spin trials 09-12-1942flame damping trials. The multi ejector fish tail manifolds produced excessive exhaust glow. AfterFH117 the M61 failed and nine new tyres were fitt during a total of 258 landing Dive recovery behaviour tests CRD R-RH for new eng. trials with 30gal overload tank FACE 23-12-1942FH159.10
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS140, Mk IX
s/n BS140
c/n 3257
VA (Supermarine)
BS 140
Merlin 61
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FF 14-08-1942133S 17-08-1942Ran out of fuel and forcelanded in Brittany 26-09-1942Pilot Officer G P Neville killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS141, Mk VI
s/n BS141
c/n 3271
VA (Supermarine)
BS 141
Merlin 47
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FF 19-08-194233MU 21-08-1942602S 14-09-1942FAAC 12-11-1942ros 234S 31-03-1943313S 04-07-1943310S 29-07-1943118S 24-12-1943AST 18-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS142, Mk VII
s/n BS142
c/n 3385
VA (Supermarine)
BS 142
Merlin 61
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FF 11-09-1942CRD WD 17-09-1942HA Flt Northolt 23-09-1942124S 'ON-H' 25-01-1943FAAC 09-08-1943to 4419M fus only CRD W Wal 04-12-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS143, Mk IX
s/n BS143
c/n 3262
VA (Supermarine)
BS 143
Merlin 61
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FF 16-08-1942133S 331S 'FN-N' shot down by Bf109 off Walcheron 29-11-1942Flight Sergeant G P L Owren killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS144, Mk IX
s/n BS144
c/n 3264
VA (Supermarine)
BS 144
Merlin 61
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FF 16-08-1942133S 18-08-1942331S 'FN-C' 29-09-1942Damaged by Fw190 Flushing CB 22-01-1943GAL 65S 10-08-1943AST mods 310S 12-09-1944undershot landing stalled crashed Bradwell Bay CE 19-02-1945SOC 22-02-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS145, Mk IX
s/n BS145
c/n 3274
VA (Supermarine)
BS 145
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 22 August 1942. Category AC damage in a flying accident on 11 January 1943, repaired on site. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 25 January 1943. Crashed during Rodeo mission afternoon of 16 February 1943, due to an oxygen problem. Had 130:00 logged time. Flying Officer S. McConnacher killed.
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FF 20-08-1942401S 22-08-1942FAAC 11-01-1943ros 403S 25-01-1943Missing over Channel pres due to oxygen failure 16-02-1943FH130 Flying Officer S McI Connacher killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS146, Mk VI
s/n BS146
c/n 3281
VA (Supermarine)
BS 146
Merlin 47
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(PC)SR FF 22-08-194233MU 21-08-1942? 602S 25-09-1942129S 07-12-1942234S 22-01-1943124S 28-02-194366S 12-05-1943313S 04-07-1943310S 29-07-1943504S 24-09-19431401Flt 09-02-1944SOC 20-11-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS147, Mk IX
s/n BS147
c/n 6S 730848
VA (Supermarine)
BS 147
Merlin 61
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FF 20-08-1942? Cv Type 509 two-seat trainer to Holland as H-99 23-03-1948to PH-NFN [Works order 3275]
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS148, Mk IX
s/n BS148
c/n 3279
VA (Supermarine)
BS 148
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 26 August 1942. Left this unit by September 1942. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 29 March 1943, left this unit by April 1943.
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FF 22-08-1942402S 26-08-1942133S 'MD-P' 06-09-1942f/l Kingsbridge Devon 26-09-1942GAL 403S 29-03-1943AST mods 18-04-1943M63 install 405RSU 08-09-1943331S 'FN-B' 17-10-1943FAAC 05-11-1943ros [332S 05-12-1943] Collided with EN130 on take-off North Weald 04-01-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS149, Mk VI
s/n BS149
c/n 3280
VA (Supermarine)
BS 149
Merlin 47
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FF 22-08-194215MU 23-08-194276MU 01-09-1942Ripley 08-09-1942Middle East 28-10-1942680S to reinforce BP985 high alt FV against Ju86P-2 sorties SOC 26-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS150, Mk IX
s/n BS150
c/n 3285
VA (Supermarine)
BS 150
Merlin 61
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FF 23-08-19426MU 24-08-194264S 30-08-1942Circus to Rouen Shot down by Fw190s nr St.Valery 05-09-1942FH6.25 F/Lt C Thomas DFC killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS151, Mk IX
s/n BS151
c/n 3287
VA (Supermarine)
BS 151
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 26 August 1942. Destroyed on 28 August 1942.
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FF 24-08-1942402S 26-08-1942Crashed on take-off Kenley FACE 28-08-1942SOC 05-09-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS152, Mk IX
s/n BS152
c/n 3293
VA (Supermarine)
BS 152
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 26 August 1942. Left this unit for modifications in December 1942. To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 23 April 1943. To No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 20 May 1943.
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FF 25-08-1942402S 26-08-1942AST 23-12-1942mods 416S 23-03-1943421S 20-05-1943ros 12-07-1943to 5263M SOC 30-03-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS157, Mk IX
s/n BS157
c/n 3100
VA (Supermarine)
BS 157
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 27 July 1942. Shot down by Fw 190s over Dieppe in the afternoon of 19 August 1942, during Operation Jubilee. Sgt. M.H. Buckly killed.
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FF 27-06-194245MU 28-06-194272S 24-07-1942401S 27-07-1942Shot down by Fw190 nr Dieppe 19-08-1942Flight Sergeant M H Buckley killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS158, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS158
c/n 3054
VA (Supermarine)
BS 158
Merlin 46
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FF 16-06-194239MU 18-06-194247MU 30-06-1942Eurybates 30-07-1942Australia 18-10-1942RAAF as A58-11 Landing collision with A58-1941Darwin CA 11-02-1943rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS159, Mk IX
s/n BS159
c/n 3143
VA (Supermarine)
BS 159
Merlin 61
Walker:
With No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 27 July 1942, coded "YO*F". Shot down by Fw 190s over the Channel during Circus 204 on 17 August 1942. Pilot Officer J.K. Ferguson killed.
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FF 11-07-19429MU 12-07-194272S 24-07-1942401S 27-07-1942Shot down by fighters nr Rouen 17-08-1942Pilot Officer J K Ferguson killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS160, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS160
c/n 3055
VA (Supermarine)
BS 160
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-06-194239MU 18-06-194252MU 08-07-1942Empire Clive 19-07-1942flown off Furious to Malta 17-08-19421435S Ditched 20m NW of Valetta Malta 29-08-1942SOC 31-08-1942FH19
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS161, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS161
c/n 3056
VA (Supermarine)
BS 161
Merlin 46
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FF 17-06-194239MU 20-06-194252MU 09-07-1942Empire Clive 19-07-1942flown off Furious to Malta 17-08-1942126S 'U' 1435S 'V-U' NAfrica USAAF 31-08-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS162, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS162
c/n 3072
VA (Supermarine)
BS 162
Merlin 46
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FF 21-06-19426MU 22-06-194247MU 16-07-1942Eurybates 30-07-1942Australia 18-10-1942RAAF as A58-12 Crashed into sea during combat nr Perrin Island 05-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS163, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS163
c/n 3073
VA (Supermarine)
BS 163
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-06-19426MU 22-06-194247MU 16-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-1962Landing accident Strauss 03-1943rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS164, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS164
c/n 3074
VA (Supermarine)
BS 164
Merlin 46
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FF 21-06-19428MU 22-06-1942215MU 19-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-1963Mid air collision with A58-214 nr Strauss strip 01-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS165, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS165
c/n 3083
VA (Supermarine)
BS 165
Merlin 46
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FF 24-06-194239MU 26-06-194247MU 16-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-13 Crashed nr Cattai 11-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS166, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS166
c/n 3084
VA (Supermarine)
BS 166
Merlin 46
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FF 25-06-194239MU 26-06-194247MU 16-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-1964Crashed landing Tennant Creek 01-1944rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS167, Mk IX
s/n BS167
c/n 3113
VA (Supermarine)
BS 167
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 28 July 1942. Left this unit by August 1942.
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FF 02-07-19429MU 03-07-1942402S 28-07-1942HAL 24-08-1942for invest 331S 20-04-1943AST major repair M63 install 28-09-1943229S '9R-N' 29-05-1944Beach patrol pm Crashed on Isle of Wight in fog 11-06-1944F/Lt G Mains killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS168, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS168
c/n 3085
VA (Supermarine)
BS 168
Merlin 46
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FF 25-06-194239MU 26-06-194252MU 10-07-1942Empire Clive 19-07-1942flown off Furious to Malta 17-08-1942185S NAfrica 01-06-1943SOC 30-06-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS169, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS169
c/n 3094
VA (Supermarine)
BS 169
Merlin 46
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FF 27-06-194239MU 28-06-194247MU 26-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-1965auth for write off 05-1946SOC 11-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS170, Mk IX
s/n BS170
c/n 3121
VA (Supermarine)
BS 170
Merlin 61
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FF 04-07-19428MU 06-07-1942611S 24-07-1942Shot down by fighters nr Le Touquet 16-09-1942Flight Sergeant P A Walker killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS171, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS171
c/n 3110
VA (Supermarine)
BS 171
Merlin 46
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FF 30-06-194239MU 03-07-1942215MU 19-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-1966Crashed into sea off Darwin 05-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS172, Mk IX
s/n BS172
c/n 3133
VA (Supermarine)
BS 172
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 27 July 1942. To Air Services for modifications, November 1942. With No. 401 Squadron on 20 January 1943, when Pilot Officer H.D. MacDonald claimed 2 Fw190s damaged. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 25 January 1943. Shot down in combat with Fw190s of JG26 during a Roadstead operation in the Dunkirk area on 27 February 1943. Had 167:30 logged time when struck off. Flight Lieutenant P.T. OLeary killed.
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FF 09-07-194239MU 11-07-194272S 24-07-1942401S 27-07-1942AST 29-11-1942403S 25-01-1943Shot down by Fw190s off Dunkerque 27-02-1943FH167.30 F/Lt P T O'Leary killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS173, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS173
c/n 3114
VA (Supermarine)
BS 173
Merlin 46
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FF 02-07-194215MU 03-07-194247MU 24-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-1967Missing on ops in Darwin area 05-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS174, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS174
c/n 3115
VA (Supermarine)
BS 174
Merlin 46
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FF 02-07-194215MU 03-07-194247MU 31-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942452S RAAF as A58-1968damaged during ops Adam Bay 20-06-1943rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS175, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS175
c/n 3124
VA (Supermarine)
BS 175
Merlin 46
Walker:
Conflicting information. Reported delivered new to Australia from July 1942. Also reported with No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, coded "YO*N".
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FF 05-07-194215MU 06-07-194247MU 28-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-1969Crashed enroute Strauss strip-Wyndham 03-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS176, Mk IX
s/n BS176
c/n 3144
VA (Supermarine)
BS 176
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 27 July 1942. Category AC damage in a flying accident on 5 December 1942. Left this unit later that month.
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FF 11-07-194233MU 13-07-194272S 24-07-1942401S 27-07-1942FAAC 05-12-1942ros 332S 23-12-1942engine failed abandoned into sea off Manston 10-02-1943Flight Sergeant R K Watne killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS177, Mk IX
s/n BS177
c/n 3168
VA (Supermarine)
BS 177
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 27 July 1942, coded "YO*H". Lost in combat with Fw190s over the Somme Estuary during Circus 221 on 2 October 1942. Had 16:05 logged time when struck off. F/Sgt. R.D. Reeser killed.
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FF 15-07-194239MU 21-07-194272S 24-07-1942401S 27-07-1942Shot down by fighters in Channel 02-10-1942FH16.5 Flight Sergeant R D Reeser killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS178, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS178
c/n 3132
VA (Supermarine)
BS 178
Merlin 46
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FF 08-07-19426MU 11-07-194247MU 25-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-1970Landing accident Livingston strip 08-1943rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS179, Mk IX
s/n BS179
c/n 3169
VA (Supermarine)
BS 179
Merlin 61
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FF 15-07-194219-07-1942611S 24-07-1942Shot down by fighters nr Dieppe 19-08-1942Flight Sergeant A P F Vilboux killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS180, Mk IX
s/n BS180
c/n 3173
VA (Supermarine)
BS 180
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 27 July 1942. Category B damage on operations 28 August 1942, while escorting B-17s to Amiens as part of Circus 210. Category AC damage on operations on 16 March 1943. Left this unit later that month.
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FF 17-07-194233MU 19-07-194272S 24-07-1942401S 27-07-1942CAC ops 16-03-1943GAL 341S 26-03-1943AST 18-04-1943mods 303S 31-07-1943Damaged by Fw190s nr Le Treport and abandoned over Channel 23-09-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS181, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS181
c/n 3134
VA (Supermarine)
BS 181
Merlin 46
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FF 11-07-19428MU 13-07-194247MU 25-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-71 Forced landing Sattler strip 07-1944rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS182, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS182
c/n 3135
VA (Supermarine)
BS 182
Merlin 46
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FF 11-07-19428MU 13-07-194247MU 25-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-72 rtp approved 08-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS183, Mk IX
s/n BS183
c/n 3181
VA (Supermarine)
BS 183
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 18 August 1942. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 25 January 1943. Category AC damage on operations on 13 March 1943. Left this unit by November 1943. Survived the war, to French AF in 1946.
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FF 19-07-19426MU 23-07-1942401S 18-08-1942403S 25-01-1943CAC ops 13-03-1943AST 131S 02-11-1943229S 25-09-1944AST major repair 27-12-194480OTU 06-03-1946Middle East Armee de l'Air 04-04-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS184, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS184
c/n 3141
VA (Supermarine)
BS 184
Merlin 46
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FF 11-07-194239MU 13-07-194247MU 25-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-73 Mid air collision with A58-1955Coomalie Creek 01-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS185, Mk IX
s/n BS185
c/n 3182
VA (Supermarine)
BS 185
Merlin 61
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FF 20-07-19426MU 23-07-1942611S 24-07-194286MU 30-07-1942Broke up in air nr West Malling 30-08-1942SOC 11-09-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS186, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS186
c/n 3166
VA (Supermarine)
BS 186
Merlin 46
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FF 15-07-19426MU 17-07-194247MU 25-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-74 auth for writeoff 05-1946SOC 02-1949
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS187, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS187
c/n 3167
VA (Supermarine)
BS 187
Merlin 46
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FF 15-07-19426MU 17-07-194247MU 25-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-75 Crashed into Port Phillip Bay first test flight 12-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS188, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS188
c/n 3174
VA (Supermarine)
BS 188
Merlin 46
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FF 17-07-19426MU 19-07-194247MU 29-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-76 Tyre burst on takeoff Darwin 05-1943rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS189, Mk IX
s/n BS189
c/n 3204
VA (Supermarine)
BS 189
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 23 July 1942. Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 28 July 1942. Left this unit by January 1942.
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FF 23-07-1942402S 28-07-1942HAL 611S 31-12-1942AST 10-02-1943mods 316S Missing presumed shot down by Fw190s 10m N of Rouen 04-04-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS190, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS190
c/n 3179
VA (Supermarine)
BS 190
Merlin 46
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FF 19-07-19426MU 20-07-194247MU 25-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-77 auth for writeoff 05-1946SOC 11-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS191, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS191
c/n 3180
VA (Supermarine)
BS 191
Merlin 46
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FF 19-07-19426MU 20-07-194247MU 29-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-78 auth for writeoff 05-1946Sold by DAP 07-1950
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS192, Mk IX
s/n BS192
c/n 3203
VA (Supermarine)
BS 192
Merlin 61
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FF 24-07-1942611S 26-07-1942FACE 31-07-1942SOC GAL AST 14-01-1943mods 340S 'GW-A' 01-03-1943341S 26-03-1943FACB 31-03-1943GAL 122S 14-08-1943FRU 06-07-1944Armee de l'Air 03-06-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS193, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS193
c/n 3191
VA (Supermarine)
BS 193
Merlin 46
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FF 23-07-19428MU 27-07-1942215MU 14-08-1942Terkoelei 17-08-1942Australia 14-11-1942RAAF as A58-79 Lost during combat nr Fenton 07-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS194, Mk IX
s/n BS194
c/n 3206
VA (Supermarine)
BS 194
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight 27 July 1942. Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 29 July 1942. To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 23 March 1943. Left this unit by end of March 1943.
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FF 27-07-1942402S 29-07-1942416S 23-03-1943AST 27-03-1943mods FTR ops 03-04-1943FH220.25
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS195, Mk IX
s/n BS195
c/n 3208
VA (Supermarine)
BS 195
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight 28 July 1942. Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 29 July 1942. Lost in combat with Fw190s of JG28 off North Foreland, during Circus 211. Sgt. W.A. Hayes killed.
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FF 28-07-1942402S 29-07-1942Shot down off North Foreland Kent 29-08-1942Flight Sergeant W A Hayes killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS196, Mk IX
s/n BS196
c/n 3209
VA (Supermarine)
BS 196
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 30 July 1942. To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 27 October 1942. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 25 January 1943. Lost in combat with Fw190s of JG26 or JG27 on 13 March 1943. Sgt. R. Dunbar killed.
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FF 31-07-1942402S 31-07-1942ros 10-09-1942401S 27-10-1942403S 25-01-1943Shot down by Fw190 nr Grandvillers 13-03-1943Flight Sergeant R Dunbar killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS197, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS197
c/n 3205
VA (Supermarine)
BS 197
Merlin 46
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FF 24-07-194239MU 28-07-194247MU 31-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-80 Lost on ops nr Anson Bay 07-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS198, Mk IX
s/n BS198
c/n 3218
VA (Supermarine)
BS 198
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight 1 August 1942. Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 3 August 1942. Damaged in combat with Fw 190s of JG26 near Bolbec on 24 August 1942, while escorting USAAF B-17s on raid to ship yards at Le Trait during Circus 208. Forced landing at Kenley on return, aircraft eventually written off. Flight Lieutenant E.A. Bland wounded.
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FF 01-08-1942402S 03-08-1942Crashlanded at Kenley CE 24-08-1942SOC 31-08-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS199, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS199
c/n 6S 199407
VA (Supermarine)
BS 199
Merlin 46
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FF 26-07-194239MU 29-07-1942215MU 05-08-1942Terkoelei 17-08-1942Australia 14-11-1942RAAF as A58-81 Crashed during combat nr Millingimbi 05-1943[Works order 3207]
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS200, Mk IX
s/n BS200
c/n 3220
VA (Supermarine)
BS 200
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight 5 August 1942. Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 9 August 1942. Left this unit by December 1942. To No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 26 August 1943, left this unit by May 1944.
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FF 05-08-1942402S 09-08-1942306S 17-12-1942316S 14-03-1943FACB 26-03-1943GAL 129S 17-07-1943421S 26-08-1943AST 31-05-1944major repair Westland 06-02-1945mods Caledonian Monarch 06-01-1948SAAF 24-12-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS201, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS201
c/n 3210
VA (Supermarine)
BS 201
Merlin 46
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FF 31-07-19428MU 01-08-194247MU 18-08-1942Port Sydney 09-09-1942Australia 29-11-1942RAAF as A58-82 Landing accident Darwin 02-1944rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS202, Mk IX
s/n BS202
c/n 3230
VA (Supermarine)
BS 202
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 11 August 1942. Category B damage in combat with Fw 190s of JG26 near Bolbec on 24 August 1942, while escorting USAAF B-17s on raid to ship yards at Le Trait (Circus 208). Flight Lieutenant I.G. Keltie wounded. Shot down during Circus 235 on 8 November 1942. Flight Lieutenant D.R. Morrison, DFC, DFM taken prisoner, repatriated in late 1943.
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FF 07-08-1942402S 11-08-1942CAC ops ros Shot down by Fw190 08-11-1942F/Lt D R Morrison DFC DFM PoW lost a leg
last update: 2025-February-05Escort 1942-11-08 to 1942-11-08
401 (F) Sqn (RCAF) RAF Biggin Hill
Circus
401 Ram (City of Westmount) Squadron RCAF (Mors celerima hostibus) RAF Biggin Hill. Flight Lieutenant Donald Robert Morrison DFM DFC (RCAF) took off in Spitfire IX BS 202 as part of Circus 235, escorting American B-17 Flying Fortress's on a bombing raid against a steel works just outside Lyon, France. On the return flight, his aircraft was attacked by German fighters and shot down, most likely by a Focke-Wulf 190 near Calais, France. His left leg was struck by a cannon shell and so badly damaged that had to be amputated below the knee by German doctors in Hospital at St Omer, France. Moved to several different hospitals afterwards for treatment, Flight Lieutenant Morrison was eventually sent to Stalag Luft 3 and was one of 11 RCAF prisoners included in the first Repatriation of Prisoners of War, in which sick and injured Allied PoWs were exchanged for German PoWs, leaving Stalag Luft 3, Sagen, October 25, 1943. Taken first to Sweden by train, then by ship to Scotland, before finally being put aboard a Hospital Ship and returning to Canada in November 1943. He later became an instructor at #20 Elementary Flaying Training School and left RCAF service 1945-03-14
Aces High, A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces in WWII by Christopher Shores and Clive Williams, Volume 1, pages 452-3
The RCAF Overseas, The First Four Years, pages 33,48,50,52-3,56-9,61,65-8,71,111,357,360
All the Fine Young Eagles, In the Cockpit with Canada's Second World War Fighter Pilots by David L Bashow, pages 84,99-100,118
Above and Beyond, The Canadians War in the Air 1939-45 by Spencer Dunmore, pages 221-3, 225
401 Squadron Spitfire IX BS202 Fl/Lt Morrison DFM DFC RAF Biggin Hill,...
Spitfire BS218, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS218
c/n 3147
VA (Supermarine)
BS 218
Merlin 46
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FF 11-07-19428MU 12-07-194247MU 25-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-83 auth for writeoff 05-1946SOC 11-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS219, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS219
c/n 3176
VA (Supermarine)
BS 219
Merlin 46
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FF 18-07-19428MU 19-07-194247MU 20-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-84 Takeoff accident Parkes 11-1944rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS220, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS220
c/n 3246
VA (Supermarine)
BS 220
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-08-19426MU 13-08-194247MU 20-08-1942Port Sydney 09-09-1942Australia 29-11-1942RAAF as A58-85 rtp 11-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS221, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS221
c/n 3249
VA (Supermarine)
BS 221
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-08-19428MU 15-08-1942215MU 22-08-1942Raranga 29-08-1942Australia 10-11-1942RAAF as A58-86 Engine failure crashed Darwin 05-1943rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS222, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS222
c/n 3297
VA (Supermarine)
BS 222
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-08-19428MU 26-08-1942215MU 10-09-1942Port Wyndham 09-10-1942Australia 21-11-1942RAAF as A58-87 Crashed Lake Victoria NSW 01-1943rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS223, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS223
c/n 3311
VA (Supermarine)
BS 223
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-08-194239MU 01-09-1942215MU 26-09-1942Port Wyndham 09-10-1942Australia 21-11-1942RAAF as A58-14 rtp 08-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS224, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS224
c/n 3317
VA (Supermarine)
BS 224
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-08-194239MU 01-09-1942215MU 26-09-1942Port Wyndham 09-10-1942Australia 21-11-1942RAAF as A58-88 auth for writeoff 05-1946SOC 11-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS225, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS225
c/n 3322
VA (Supermarine)
BS 225
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-08-194239MU 01-09-1942215MU 23-09-1942Waroonga 13-10-1942Australia 24-12-1942RAAF as A58-89 Shot down Darwin Harbour 05-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS226, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS226
c/n 3333
VA (Supermarine)
BS 226
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-09-19426MU 07-09-1942215MU 13-09-1942Port Wyndham 09-10-1942Australia 21-11-1942RAAF as A58-90 Ran out of fuel after combat Darwin 05-1943rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS227, Mk IXc
s/n BS227
c/n 3462
VA (Supermarine)
BS 227
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-10-194264S 09-10-1942AST 31-03-1943? mods 453S 27-03-1943129S 'DV-U' 17-07-1943332S 28-08-1943165S 'SK-D' 29-09-1943274S 'JJ-Q' 15-05-1944to 5322M 04-07-1945SOC rtp 24-01-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS228, Mk VI
s/n BS228
c/n 3511
VA (Supermarine)
BS 228
Merlin 47
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-10-194238MU 27-10-1942521S 16-02-19431401Flt 11-09-1943NFT 09-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS229, Mk VII
s/n BS229
c/n 3574
VA (Supermarine)
BS 229
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-10-1942CRD WD 02-11-1942AAEE 20-03-1943rate of roll measurements with reduced span ailerons. carbon monoxide contam tests. 14-05-1943rate of roll measurements with extended tips removed. Stab tests with increased horn balanced elev 10-1943trials with landing flaps used as air brakes AFDU 02-02-1944Univ wing install 05-1944Stab trials with FV rud FAAC 05-09-1944ros AFDU 01-02-1945AST 27-06-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS230, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS230
c/n 3202
VA (Supermarine)
BS 230
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-07-19426MU 26-07-194247MU 30-07-1942Hoperidge 04-08-1942Australia 23-10-1942RAAF as A58-91 Crashed after structural failure Bankstown 12-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS231, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS231
c/n 3211
VA (Supermarine)
BS 231
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-07-19426MU 28-07-1942215MU 12-08-1942Terkoelei 17-08-1942Australia 14-11-1942452S RAAF as A58-92 shot down over Point Charles Darwin C.O. S/Ldr Thorold-Smith killed 15-03-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS232, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS232
c/n 3232
VA (Supermarine)
BS 232
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-08-19426MU 11-08-194247MU 17-08-1942Port Sydney 09-09-1942Australia 29-11-1942RAAF as A58-93 Wheels up landing Mildura 06-1943rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS233, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS233
c/n 3243
VA (Supermarine)
BS 233
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-08-19426MU 12-08-1942215MU 21-08-1942Raranga 29-08-1942Australia 10-11-1942RAAF as A58-94 Forced landing nr Stockton 12-1944rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS234, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS234
c/n 3244
VA (Supermarine)
BS 234
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-08-19426MU 14-08-1942215MU 22-08-1942Raranga 29-08-1942Australia 10-11-1942RAAF as A58-95 rtp 11-1945?
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS235, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS235
c/n 3256
VA (Supermarine)
BS 235
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-08-194239MU 16-08-1942215MU 01-09-1942Tekoa 17-09-1942Australia 02-12-1942RAAF as A58-96 Ran out of fuel crashed Darwin area 07-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS236, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS236
c/n 3261
VA (Supermarine)
BS 236
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-08-194239MU 17-08-1942215MU 01-09-1942Tekoa 17-09-1942Australia 02-12-1942RAAF as A58-97 auth for writeoff 05-1946SOC 11-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS237, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS237
c/n 3272
VA (Supermarine)
BS 237
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-08-194239MU 20-08-1942215MU 06-09-1942Tekoa 17-09-1942Australia 02-12-1942RAAF as A58-98 Engine failure crashed nr Strauss Field 03-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS238, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS238
c/n 3312
VA (Supermarine)
BS 238
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-08-194239MU 31-08-1942215MU 13-09-1942Port Wyndham 09-10-1942Australia 21-11-1942RAAF as A58-99 Forced landing nr Dungog NSW 03-1943rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS239, Mk IX
s/n BS239
c/n 3550
VA (Supermarine)
BS 239
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-10-1942340S 'GW-H' 31-10-1942CAC ops 16-02-1943ros 341S 26-03-1943CAC ops 15-07-1943HAL 405ARF 22-03-194433S '5R-E' FAAC 22-06-1944CFE SOC 16-10-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS240, Mk IX
s/n BS240
c/n 3463
VA (Supermarine)
BS 240
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-10-1942340S 08-10-1942SF Biggin Hill 29-11-1942Shot down by Fw190s nr Hardelot 14-03-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS241, Mk IX
s/n BS241
c/n 3458
VA (Supermarine)
BS 241
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-10-1942306S 05-10-1942SF Biggin Hill 04-12-1942FTR air collision with BS459 over Gravelines 26-01-1943W/C S Janus DFC PoW (Northold Wing Leader)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS242, Mk IX
s/n BS242
c/n 3475
VA (Supermarine)
BS 242
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 441 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 5 April 1944, left this unit by December 1944.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-10-1942340S 11-10-1942FACB 25-10-1942GAL 315S 22-04-1943AST 29-04-1943mods CAC ops 13-05-1943GAL 165S 14-02-1944131S 19-03-1944313S 29-08-1944611S 22-03-1945441S 05-04-194580OTU air collision with BS463 nr Durham 13-12-1945SOC 29-12-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS243, Mk IX
s/n BS243
c/n 3476
VA (Supermarine)
BS 243
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-10-1942340S 'GW-L' 15-10-1942Crashlanded in France during sweep to St.Omer 31-10-1942FH9.20
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS244, Mk IX
s/n BS244
c/n 3473
VA (Supermarine)
BS 244
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-10-1942340S 'GW-P' 11-10-1942ASTH 30-01-1943Shot down by Fw190 10m E of Hardelot 13-02-1943FH72.5 Capt J H Schloesing evaded to Switzerland
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS245, Mk VI
s/n BS245
c/n 3499
VA (Supermarine)
BS 245
Merlin 47
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-10-19429MU 16-10-1942124S 12-12-1942616S 'YQ-C' 31-03-1943Shot down by Fw190s nr Brest 16-04-1943F/Lt G B McLachlan killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS246, Mk IX
s/n BS246
c/n 3474
VA (Supermarine)
BS 246
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 11 April 1943. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on same date. Failed to return from Circus on 15 May 1943, shot down by Fw190s near Caen, France. Had 122:20 logged time. Flight Lieutenant B. Madden killed.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-10-1942340S 11-10-1942FACB 24-10-1942ros 611S 26-01-1943AST 05-04-1943mods 416S 11-04-1943403S 11-04-1943Shot down by fighters nr Senaipont 15-05-1943FH122.20 F/Lt L B Madden killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS247, Mk IX
s/n BS247
c/n 3477
VA (Supermarine)
BS 247
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 441 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 5 April 1945. Left this unit by June 1945.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-10-1942340S 'GW-S' 11-10-1942CAC ops 13-02-1943ros 332S 28-05-1943303S 03-03-1945441S 05-04-194580OTU 07-06-1945FAAC 02-12-1945FACE 13-12-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS248, Mk IXc
s/n BS248
c/n 3507
VA (Supermarine)
BS 248
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-10-1942332S 17-10-1942AST 29-12-1942mods 313S 11-09-1944611S 08-10-1944310S 22-03-1945VAO 06-04-1945mods to 6516M 20-02-1948RDAF 23-06-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS249, Mk IX
s/n BS249
c/n 3512
VA (Supermarine)
BS 249
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-10-1942332S 'AH-R' 18-10-1942ros 16-02-1943317S 06-03-1944? CB ops 10-02-1944AST 313S 30-08-1944611S 08-10-1944310S 'NN-P' 22-03-1945VA 30-03-1945mods sold VA 05-06-1947to 6452M 15-10-1947SOC recat scrap 08-08-1949
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS250, Mk IX
s/n BS250
c/n 3508
VA (Supermarine)
BS 250
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-10-1942332S 18-10-1942AST 27-02-1943mods 229S 01-08-1944VA 26-10-1944mods 229S 27-10-1944FAAC 08-11-1944ros Armee de l'Air 10-04-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS251, Mk IX
s/n BS251
c/n 3509
VA (Supermarine)
BS 251
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-10-1942332S 18-10-1942struct fail in dive North Weald CE 30-01-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS252, Mk IX
s/n BS252
c/n 3523
VA (Supermarine)
BS 252
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-10-1942332S 24-10-1942GAL 02-12-1942Missing presumed shot down by Fw190s nr Calais 20-01-1943Lt P G Mollestad killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS253, Mk VI
s/n BS253
c/n 3524
VA (Supermarine)
BS 253
Merlin 47
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-10-194233MU 24-10-1942616S 11-04-1943SOC 07-02-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS254, Mk IX
s/n BS254
c/n 3519
VA (Supermarine)
BS 254
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-10-1942CRD RAE 08-11-1942stab and neg G trials ETPS 18-03-1943weather tests and cool trials GAL 08-05-1943332S 20-07-1943511FRU 03-08-1944Hatfield returned RAE continued generator cool trials VAO 19-10-1944mods 229S 20-10-1944Armee de l'Air 21-08-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS255, Mk IX
s/n BS255
c/n 3526
VA (Supermarine)
BS 255
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-10-1942332S 31-10-1942AST 27-01-1943mods Ramrod to Vlissingen Missing presumed shot down by Fw190s nr Walcheren 02-05-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS271, Mk IX
s/n BS271
c/n 3273
VA (Supermarine)
BS 271
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 64S 26-08-1942Special Flt Northolt 06-09-1942incorrectly painted 'BF271' 124S 25-01-1943331S 20-04-1943FACB 15-05-1943GAL SOC 25-07-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS272, Mk IX
s/n BS272
c/n 3255
VA (Supermarine)
BS 272
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 133S 'MD-B' 15-08-1942331S 29-09-1942FACB 12-12-1942GAL 332S 31-12-1942122S 11-08-1943AST 28-09-1943M61 install mods 84GSU 22-04-1944FAAC 12-12-1944ros CE 27-05-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS273, Mk IX
s/n BS273
c/n 3259
VA (Supermarine)
BS 273
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 64S 16-08-1942AFDU Duxford 16-08-1942Cranfield 3501SU 27-08-1942Special Flt Northolt 05-09-1942Wood prop armour removed armament reduced to 2x20mm can lightweight pt finish operated under code Windgap reached height of 45000ft 124S 25-01-19433501SU 27-03-1943453S 01-05-1943mods AST 09-05-1943453S 15-05-1943? AST riw 24-06-1943453S 26-06-1943Shot down by fighters nr Cayeux 04-07-1943Flight Sergeant C Woodall killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS274, Mk IX
s/n BS274
c/n 3247
VA (Supermarine)
BS 274
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 incorrectly painted 'BF274' Canadian Pacific retained until scrap. Off CRD contract not to be included in count AAEE 13-08-1942climb and level speed perf and positional error. 06-10-1942range det with 170gal overload tank. Guns removed for cool trials fuel cooler in port wing root 13-10-1942fuel cons trials Boulton Paul 31-10-1942CRD Staverton 11-01-1943AST 18-01-1944major repair mods at Flight Refuelling for fighter towing trials 07-194458OTU 16-05-1945sold Vickers 11-01-1947Cv Type 509 two-seat trainer RNethAF as H-98 22-03-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS275, Mk IX
s/n BS275
c/n 3238
VA (Supermarine)
BS 275
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 133S 12-08-1942Ran out of fuel and forcelanded in Brittany 26-09-1942Pilot Officer L T Ryerson killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS276, Mk IX
s/n BS276
c/n 3227
VA (Supermarine)
BS 276
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 133S 12-08-1942Circus to Abbeville shot down by fighters 06-09-1942Flying Officer E Doorly missing
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS277, Mk IX
s/n BS277
c/n 3270
VA (Supermarine)
BS 277
Merlin 61
Walker:
Built as a Mk. V, converted to Mk. IX before use by RCAF. May have served with No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, dates not known. To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 20 August 1942. Shot down over English Channel by Fw190 of JG26, near Guines, France during Rodeo 115 on 4 December 1942. Flight Sergeant H.M. Batters killed.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 402S 20-08-1942Shot down by fighters nr Ambleteuse 04-12-1942Flight Sergeant H M Batters killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS278, Mk IX
s/n BS278
c/n 3294
VA (Supermarine)
BS 278
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 6MU 27-08-194264S 04-09-1942Circus 256 Engaged Fw190s of JG26 over St.Omer Crashed into the sea 26-01-1943FH108.05 Flight Sergeant G A McKoy RNZAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS279, Mk IX
s/n BS279
c/n 3260
VA (Supermarine)
BS 279
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 133S 17-08-1942Ran out of fuel and forcelanded in Brittany 26-09-1942FLt ME Jackson PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS280, Mk IX
s/n BS280
c/n 3282
VA (Supermarine)
BS 280
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 64S 23-08-1942AST 31-03-1943mods 453S 'FU-V' 02-04-1943129S 17-07-1943405ARF 05-09-1943131S 27-09-1943VAO 20-12-1944mods to 6021M 26-07-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS281, Mk IX
s/n BS281
c/n 3308
VA (Supermarine)
BS 281
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 15MU 01-09-1942122S 25-09-1942222S 19-05-1943AST 25-05-194333S 25-05-1944310S 08-07-1944303S 'RF-C' 22-07-1944VA 26-10-1944mods Attack on V-2 site hit by flak abandoned after glycol leak 4m S of s'Gravenhage 09-03-1945W/C J Falkowski VM KW DFC PoW but later escaped
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS282, Mk IX
s/n BS282
c/n 3283
VA (Supermarine)
BS 282
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 64S 25-08-1942enemy action CB 18-01-1943ros 453S 02-04-1943AST 29-04-1943mods 129S 17-07-1943331S 28-08-1943165S 29-09-1943131S 19-03-1944611S 08-10-1944SOC 10-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS283, Mk IX
s/n BS283
c/n 3313
VA (Supermarine)
BS 283
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 15MU 01-09-1942122S 19-09-1942AST 10-11-1942AST 10-02-1943mods Hit truck on take-off Hornchurch CE 17-04-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS284, Mk IX
s/n BS284
c/n 3289
VA (Supermarine)
BS 284
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 6MU 27-08-1942CB ops 12-12-1942GAL 405ARF 18-08-194319S 22-08-1943CAC ops 18-10-1943274S 29-05-1944Lost glycol and bellylanded at Detling CB 28-07-1944recat E 03-11-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS285, Mk IX
s/n BS285
c/n 3306
VA (Supermarine)
BS 285
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 15MU 01-09-1942122S 25-09-1942Shot down by Fw190 10m N of Le Havre 15-10-1942FH16.15 Flight Sergeant E E J Regis RCAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS286, Mk IX
s/n BS286
c/n 3331
VA (Supermarine)
BS 286
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 8MU 05-09-1942122S 19-09-1942AST 04-11-1942222S 19-05-1943AST 25-05-1943mods 65S 24-08-1943CB ops 07-11-1943AST 310S 'NN-F' 08-07-1944504S 15-07-1944229S 13-02-1945310S 16-06-1945312S 27-08-1945to 6020M 26-07-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS287, Mk IX
s/n BS287
c/n 3328
VA (Supermarine)
BS 287
Merlin 61
Walker:
Built as a Mk. V, converted to Mk. IX before use by RCAF. To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 12 December 1942. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 25 January 1943. Crashed at Marsham, Kent out of control on 25 February 1943. Had 127:15 logged time.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-08-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 33MU 06-09-1942401S 12-12-1942403S 25-01-1943lost control crashed Marsham Kent 25-02-1943FH127.15
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS288, Mk IX
s/n BS288
c/n 3329
VA (Supermarine)
BS 288
Merlin 61
Walker:
Built as a Mk. V, converted to Mk. IX before use by RCAF. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 8 June 1943, left this unit by July 1943 for modifications. Back to 403 Squadron by 3 October 1943, when it took part in Ramrod 258. Pilot bailed out after engine fire on 15 December 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 01-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 33MU 03-09-1942306S 17-09-1942FACB 10-12-1942GAL 31-12-1942403S 08-06-1943AST 12-07-1943mods 405RSU eng fire aircraft abandoned crashed Forest Row E Grinstead CE 15-12-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS289, Mk IX
s/n BS289
c/n 3394
VA (Supermarine)
BS 289
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 15-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 12MU 17-09-194247MU 28-11-1942Gibraltar 07-12-1942NFT
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS290, Mk IX
s/n BS290
c/n 3361
VA (Supermarine)
BS 290
Merlin 61
Walker:
Built as a Mk. V, converted to Mk. IX before use by RCAF. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 18 May 1943. To No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 20 May 1943. Lost on operations 9 August 1943, pilot baled out east of Calais with engine problems. Had 118:00 logged time. Flying Officer R.T. Heeney killed.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 8MU 12-09-1942122S 25-09-1942FACB 20-10-1942GAL 403S 18-05-1943421S 20-05-1943AST 08-06-1943mods 421S 16-06-1943Engine cut abandoned 15m NW of Calais 09-08-1943FH118 Flying Officer R T Heeney baled out but killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS291, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS291
c/n 3229
VA (Supermarine)
BS 291
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-08-194239MU 11-08-194247MU 16-08-1942Port Sydney 09-09-1942Australia 29-11-1942RAAF as A58-100 to instructional airframe 10-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS292, Mk IX
s/n BS292
c/n 3234
VA (Supermarine)
BS 292
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-08-1942133S 11-08-1942Circus to Abbeville missing presumed shot down by fighters 06-09-1942Pilot Officer R D Goodmundsen killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS293, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS293
c/n 3235
VA (Supermarine)
BS 293
Merlin 46
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FF 09-08-194239MU 11-08-194247MU 16-08-1942Port Sydney 09-09-1942Australia 29-11-1942RAAF as A58-101 Crashed nr Point Charles 03-1943rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS294, Mk IX
s/n BS294
c/n 3241
VA (Supermarine)
BS 294
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-08-1942133S 13-08-1942Ran out of fuel and forcelanded in Brittany 26-09-1942Pilot Officer DD Smith killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS295, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS295
c/n 3236
VA (Supermarine)
BS 295
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-08-19428MU 11-08-194247MU 20-08-1942Raranga 29-08-1942Australia 10-11-1942RAAF as A58-20 rtp approved 02-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS296, Mk IX
s/n BS296
c/n 3242
VA (Supermarine)
BS 296
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-08-1942133S 'MD-S' 14-08-1942331S 'FN-E' 29-09-1942Shot down by Fw190 off Walcheren 29-11-1942Flight Sergeant E Sem-Olsen killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS297, Mk IX
s/n BS297
c/n 3253
VA (Supermarine)
BS 297
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-08-1942133S 16-08-1942Crashed in sea off Manston 04-09-1942Pilot Officer ED Beaty rescued by ASR SOC 17-09-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS298, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS298
c/n 3254
VA (Supermarine)
BS 298
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-08-19428MU 16-08-1942215MU 28-08-1942Tekoa 17-09-1942Australia 02-12-1942RAAF as A58-102 Forced landing nr Williamtown 04-1943rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS299, Mk IX
s/n BS299
c/n 3266
VA (Supermarine)
BS 299
Merlin 61
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FF 17-08-1942133S 18-08-1942331S 'FN-L' 29-09-1942according to VAWD records this aircraft was Cv VII standards and tested for det of static longitudinal stab 04-02-1943Escort Venturas to Caen shot down by Fw190s 13-04-1943Flight Sergeant E J Berg-Olsen killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS300, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS300
c/n 3265
VA (Supermarine)
BS 300
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-08-19426MU 18-08-1942215MU 23-08-1942Raranga 29-08-1942Australia 10-11-1942RAAF as A58-21 rtp approved 10-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS301, Mk IX
s/n BS301
c/n 3268
VA (Supermarine)
BS 301
Merlin 61
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FF 18-08-1942133S 19-08-1942Ran out of fuel and forcelanded in Brittany 26-09-1942Pilot Officer GN Middleton PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS302, Mk IX
s/n BS302
c/n 3269
VA (Supermarine)
BS 302
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-08-1942317S 21-08-1942306S 31-08-1942316S 16-03-1943AST mods CA ops 29-05-1943Collided with BS457 nr Montreuil 09-08-1943FH363
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS303, Mk IX
s/n BS303
c/n 3277
VA (Supermarine)
BS 303
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 23 August 1942. Overshot landing at Kenley on 24 October 1942, struck dispersal pen and was destroyed. Had 61:05 logged time.
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FF 21-08-1942401S 23-08-1942overshot landing struck dispersal pen CE Kenley 24-10-1942FH61.5
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS304, Mk IX
s/n BS304
c/n 3278
VA (Supermarine)
BS 304
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 22 August 1942. Delivered to No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 23 August 1942. Category E damage on 18 November 1942 when undercarriage struck trees at Kenly, UK.
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FF 22-08-1942401S 23-08-1942undershot landing struck trees Kenley CE 18-11-1942SOC 25-11-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS305, Mk Vc (Trop)
s/n BS305
c/n 3286
VA (Supermarine)
BS 305
Merlin 46
Walker:
Last Supermarine built Mk. V. Reported with No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, but not confirmed by RAF records.
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FF 23-08-1942final MkV variant built by Super 6MU 26-08-1942215MU 06-09-1942Tekoa 17-09-1942Australia 02-12-1942RAAF as A58-103 Landing accident Guildford WA 11-1944rtp
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS306, Mk IX
s/n BS306
c/n 3288
VA (Supermarine)
BS 306
Merlin 61
Walker:
Used by No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 26 August 1942, coded "AE*A". Category A damage in a flying accident on 20 September 1942. Based at Kenly in November 1942. Left this unit for modifications on 19 February 1943. To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 20 May 1943. Category AC damage in a mid-air collision with EN180 on 9 June 1943. Left this unit by November 1943. Also reported with No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF, dates not known.
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FF 24-08-1942402S 26-08-1942FACA 20-09-1942AST 19-02-1943mods 416S 23-03-1943421S 20-05-1943air collision with EN180 nr Kenley CAC 09-06-1943AST M63 install 411ARF 19-11-1943302S 27-12-1943FAAC 24-02-1944ros 33S collision with MJ309 Mountfield Sussex CE 22-05-1944
last update: 2025-February-05
Spitfire BS307, Mk IX
s/n BS307
c/n 3296
VA (Supermarine)
BS 307
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 26 August 1942. To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 27 August 1942, coded "YO*T". Destroyed by fire after a flying accident on 5 October 1942. Had 8:40 logged time
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FF 26-08-1942401S 27-08-1942Crashed nr Detling FACE dbf 05-10-1942SOC 15-10-1942FH8.40
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS308, Mk IX
s/n BS308
c/n 3301
VA (Supermarine)
BS 308
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 28 August 1942. To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 30 August 1942. Forced landing after being damaged by flak near Brachy, south-west of Dieppe, during Ramrod on 15 January 1943. Had 111:35 logged time. Pilot Officer D.E. Hall POW.
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FF 28-08-1942402S 30-08-1942Missing presumed forcelanded nr Brachy 15-01-1943FH111.35
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS309, Mk IX
s/n BS309
c/n 3310
VA (Supermarine)
BS 309
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 30 August 1942. To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 31 August 1942. Crashed landed at Hawkinge on 4 December 1942 after being damaged in combat with JG26 during a Rodeo mission. Left this unit by April 1943.
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FF 30-08-1942402S 31-08-1942CB ops 04-12-1942GAL 82MU 21-04-1943Fort Thompson 03-05-1943Casablanca 17-05-1943232S 'EF-A' CE ops 14-12-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS310, Mk IX
s/n BS310
c/n 3321
VA (Supermarine)
BS 310
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-08-1942VAWD 11-11-1942comparison trials of temperate and trop air intake and filter M66 install brief perf trials 01-03-1943CRD WD 22-05-1943RM9SM torsional stiff tests of mod oleo leg links 31-08-1943AAEE 31-10-1943CG tests with different props and M70 FXII rud and FVIII pilot head install 12-11-1943CG tests hand trials 03-1944trials to det effects of high Mach numbers in dive and recovery with eng/prop combinations AST 04-04-1944major repair 83GSU 19-08-1944453S Missing nr Arnhem 27-09-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS311, Mk IX
s/n BS311
c/n 3323
VA (Supermarine)
BS 311
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 2 (or 26?) September 1942. Forced landing in UK after running low on fuel during Circus 220, on 28 September 1942. S/P D.A. Wright injured. Written off.
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FF 31-08-1942401S 02-09-1942engine failed fuel short crash-landed Bolt Head Devon CE 28-09-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS312, Mk IX
s/n BS312
c/n 3325
VA (Supermarine)
BS 312
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 2 September 1942. delivered to No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 4 September 1942. Category AC damage in a flying accident on 15 September 1942. Repaired on site. Left this unit by October 1942.
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FF 02-09-1942401S 04-09-1942FAAC 15-09-1942ros 340S 'GW-F' 28-10-1942FAAC 13-02-1943Dived into ground nr Rouen poss oxygen failure 08-03-1943S/Chef P R Hubidos killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS313, Mk IX
s/n BS313
c/n 3344
VA (Supermarine)
BS 313
Merlin 61
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FF 05-09-1942401S 08-09-1942133S 'MD-A' 08-09-1942Ran out of fuel and forcelanded in Brittany 26-09-1942F/Lt E G Brettel DFC PoW Shot after the 'Great Escape'
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS314, Mk IX
s/n BS314
c/n 3355
VA (Supermarine)
BS 314
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight 8 September 1942. to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 10 September 1942. Lost during combat with JG2 during a Rodeo to the Bolbec area on 17 January 1943. Had 84:25 logged time. Flying Officer M.J. Sunstrum killed.
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FF 08-09-1942402S 10-09-1942AST 14-12-1942mods Shot down by fighter nr Bolbec 17-01-1943FH84.25 Flying Officer M J Sunstrum killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS315, Mk IX
s/n BS315
c/n 3380
VA (Supermarine)
BS 315
Merlin 61
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FF 11-09-194264S 'SH-K' 13-09-1942CAC 10-10-1942453S 'FU-Y' 02-04-1943AST 22-04-1943mods 129S 17-07-1943131S 08-01-1944to 5941M 09-05-19465SoTT SOC 20-03-1950
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS316, Mk IX
s/n BS316
c/n 3398
VA (Supermarine)
BS 316
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 17 September 1942, to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on same date. Destroyed in flying accident on 29 November 1942, with 58:05 logged time
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FF 17-09-1942402S 17-09-1942Crashed landing Kenley FACE 29-11-1942FH58.50
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS317, Mk IX
s/n BS317
c/n 3388
VA (Supermarine)
BS 317
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 15 September 1942. Failed to return from Rodeo 115 on 4 December 1942, oxygen failure suspected. Sgt. B.H. Nickel killed.
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FF 13-09-1942133S 16-09-1942401S Crashed nr Ambleteuse on sweep 04-12-1942Flight Sergeant B H Nickel killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS318, Mk IX
s/n BS318
c/n 3399
VA (Supermarine)
BS 318
Merlin 61
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FF 17-09-1942611S 18-09-1942Hit sea flying low on patrol south of Beachy Head 11-02-1943FFlight Sergeant AE Pearce RAAF mising
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS319, Mk IX
s/n BS319
c/n 3422
VA (Supermarine)
BS 319
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 2 April 1943. To No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF (or 421 Sdn?) on 20 May 1943. Shot down by Fw190s of JG26 during Rodeo mission in afternoon of 17 June 1943. Flying Officer J.E. McNamara killed. (Conflicting information on unit.)
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FF 22-09-1942611S 25-09-1942AST 17-01-1943416S 02-04-1943412S 20-05-1943Missing presumed shot down by Fw190s nr St.Omer 17-06-1943Flying Officer J E McNamara killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS335, Mk IX
s/n BS335
c/n 3330
VA (Supermarine)
BS 335
Merlin 61
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FF 02-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 33MU 04-09-1942306S 18-09-1942CAC ops 15-12-1942ros AST 20-03-1943mods Missing from B-17 escort to Billancourt 04-04-1943Flight Sergeant T Ostrowski killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS336, Mk IX
s/n BS336
c/n 3350
VA (Supermarine)
BS 336
Merlin 61
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FF 06-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 8MU 09-09-1942122S 22-09-1942FACB 19-11-1942GAL 316S 24-07-1943AST 28-09-1943FAAC 17-10-1943recat E 04-04-1943FH207.10
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS337, Mk IX
s/n BS337
c/n 3358
VA (Supermarine)
BS 337
Merlin 61
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FF 08-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 12MU 10-09-194247MU 28-11-1942SS647 19-12-1942Gibraltar 06-02-1943NWAfrica 31-03-1943SOC 31-08-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS338, Mk IX
s/n BS338
c/n 3372
VA (Supermarine)
BS 338
Merlin 61
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FF 11-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 15MU 12-09-1942541S 01-10-1942VAWD 19-11-1942Cv PR standard 47MU 25-01-1943SS670 24-03-1943Gibraltar 12-04-1943Middle East FAC3 21-08-1943MedAAF 27-04-1944SOC 15-03-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS339, Mk IX
s/n BS339
c/n 3360
VA (Supermarine)
BS 339
Merlin 61
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FF 09-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 15MU 11-09-1942541S 02-10-194282MU 28-01-1943SS657 19-02-1943Gibraltar 09-03-1943Malta 01-08-1943Middle East 30-09-1943682S 680S NAfrica 31-08-1944REAF SOC 26-09-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS340, Mk IX
s/n BS340
c/n 3432
VA (Supermarine)
BS 340
Merlin 61
Walker:
Built as a Mk. Vc, converted to Mk. IX before delivery. Delivered new to No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 8 October 1942. Category AC damage on operations on 3 November 1942, repaired on site. Left this unit by December 1942.
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FF 20-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 8MU 24-09-1942401S 08-10-1942CAC ops 03-11-1942ros 122S 02-12-1942GAL 10-03-1943315S 21-05-1943303S 06-06-1943AST 28-07-1943410ARF 15-12-1943501S 15-04-1944229S 29-05-1944SOC major repair 26-02-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS341, Mk IX
s/n BS341
c/n 3389
VA (Supermarine)
BS 341
Merlin 61
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FF 14-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 12MU 16-09-194247MU 28-11-1942SS646 07-12-1942Gibraltar 17-12-1942NFT
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS342, Mk IX
s/n BS342
c/n 3414
VA (Supermarine)
BS 342
Merlin 61
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FF 18-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 12MU 21-09-194247MU 21-10-1942Algorab 20-12-1942Alexandria 31-12-1942Suez 17-03-1943Crashed in forced landing nr Mariut FAC3 13-11-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS343, Mk IX
s/n BS343
c/n 3359
VA (Supermarine)
BS 343
Merlin 61
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FF 08-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 12MU 09-09-194247MU 21-10-1942Algorab 31-12-1942Suez 17-03-1943Middle East 31-03-1943NAfrica 31-08-1944Hit by MA522 while taxying Lyon/Bron 24-09-1944SOC 23-10-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS344, Mk IX
s/n BS344
c/n 3407
VA (Supermarine)
BS 344
Merlin 61
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FF 17-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 12MU 24-09-194247MU 29-11-1942SS647 19-12-1942Gibraltar 06-02-1943NWAfrica 28-02-1943returned to UK 28-01-1945SAAF M63 install 18-07-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS345, Mk IX
s/n BS345
c/n 3433
VA (Supermarine)
BS 345
Merlin 61
Walker:
Built as a Mk. Vc, converted to Mk. IX before delivery. To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 25 January 1943. Part of return escort for Ramrod 258 on 3 October 1943. Left this unit by June 1944.
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FF 23-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 122S 25-09-1942enemy action CAC 08-11-1942ros AST 07-05-1943mods 222S 19-05-1943403S 24-08-1943274S 16-06-1944to 5951M 12-06-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS346, Mk IX
s/n BS346
c/n 3434
VA (Supermarine)
BS 346
Merlin 61
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FF 23-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 122S 25-09-1942Shot down by Fw190 off Gravelines 06-12-1942FH49.50 Pilot Officer T L Parker killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS347, Mk IX
s/n BS347
c/n 3415
VA (Supermarine)
BS 347
Merlin 61
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FF 19-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 122S 21-09-1942RAE 11-1942stab and neg G trials 222S 19-05-194365S 24-08-1943AST 13-10-1943mods to 6036M 12-04-1949
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS348, Mk IX
s/n BS348
c/n 3453
VA (Supermarine)
BS 348
Merlin 61
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FF 29-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 122S 01-10-1942222S 19-05-1943421S 24-08-1943405RSU 33S 28-05-1944310S 03-07-1944303S CAC ops 23-07-1944ros VA 15-11-1944mods Sc training Flt Drem 25-01-1945Westland major repair 22-08-1945SOC 07-07-1949
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS349, Mk IX
s/n BS349
c/n 3450
VA (Supermarine)
BS 349
Merlin 61
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FF 27-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 122S 30-09-1942Escort B-17s Shot down by Fw190s nr Gravelines 08-11-1942Flight Sergeant G J Foreman RCAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS350, Mk IX
s/n BS350
c/n 3451
VA (Supermarine)
BS 350
Merlin 61
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FF 27-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 122S 30-09-1942Hit by jettison tank and crashed in Channel 02-12-1942FH52.30 Pilot Officer R L King baled out but killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS351, Mk IX
s/n BS351
c/n 3452
VA (Supermarine)
BS 351
Merlin 61
Walker:
Built as a Mk. Vc, converted to Mk. IX before delivery. To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF in January 1943. Shot down by Fw190s of JG26 and JG27 in afternoon of 11 January 1943, during Ramrod mission to Poix. Pilot Officer D.J. Crimmon PoW.
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FF 27-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 122S 01-10-1942402S 25-01-1943Shot down by fighters nr Cayeux 13-03-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS352, Mk IX
s/n BS352
c/n 3468
VA (Supermarine)
BS 352
Merlin 61
Walker:
Built as a Mk. Vc, converted to Mk. IX before delivery. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 15 August 1943. Category AC damage on operations on 20 August 1943. Left this unit by December 1943.
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FF 06-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 340S 08-10-1942FAAC 25-10-1942611S 23-11-1942AST 11-03-1943mods 341S 01-04-1943AST 04-04-1943mods 222S 29-07-1943403S 15-08-1943CAC ops 20-08-1943AST CRD AAEE 04-12-1943pilot error measurements Scottish Aviation 19-03-1945RHAF 13-05-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS353, Mk IX
s/n BS353
c/n 3466
VA (Supermarine)
BS 353
Merlin 61
Walker:
Built as a Mk. Vc, converted to Mk. IX before delivery. To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 13 December 1942, coded "AE*G". To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 21 March 1943. Back to 402 Squadron on 23 March 1943. To No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 20 May 1943. Category AC damage on operations on 17 June 1943, repaired on site. Category AC damage while being operated by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 31 July 1943, repaired on site.
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FF 05-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 340S 09-10-1942402S 13-12-1942AST 12-03-1943mods 416S 21-03-1943402S 23-03-1943421S 20-05-1943CAC ops 17-06-1943ros 307S 13-07-1943403S CAC ops 31-07-1943ros 274S 21-06-1944CFE 11-01-194580OTU 05-07-1945CE 24-06-1946
last update: 2025-February-05
Spitfire BS354, Mk IX
s/n BS354
c/n 3525
VA (Supermarine)
BS 354
Merlin 61
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FF 19-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 R-R 19-10-1942AAEE 28-10-1942trials with M61 with lower blower peak 05-11-1942Merlin RM9SM (M70) install 12-1942trials with new eng and MkXII rud. It was proposed to install this rud on VIII VII and IX production aircraft Oil cool and rad suit trials 05-12-1942comparison perf trials with BS543 (M66 RM10SM) and BS551 (M70 RM11SM) high and low alt Merlin respectively 01-1943Damaged during trials GAL 28-01-1943for repairs 47MU 05-04-1943SS686 24-04-1943Casablanca 17-05-1943Middle East 01-07-1943213S 'AK-G' REAF 30-01-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS355, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS355
c/n 3267
VA (Supermarine)
BS 355
Merlin 46
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FF 17-08-1942(W camera) 6MU 18-08-1942Benson 31-08-1942Porthreath 31-10-1942Gibraltar 06-11-1942NWAfrica 28-02-1943SOC 01-03-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS356, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS356
c/n 3290
VA (Supermarine)
BS 356
Merlin 46
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FF 6MU (W camera) 24-08-19426MU 25-08-1942Benson 30-08-1942Porthreath 03-10-1942Gibraltar 06-11-1942682S Dbr in air raid Maison Blanche C2 20-11-1942recat 3
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS357, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS357
c/n 3291
VA (Supermarine)
BS 357
Merlin 46
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FF 24-08-1942(Y camera) 6MU 26-08-1942Benson 17-09-19428OTU 09-10-1942FAAC 03-12-1942SOC 16-03-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS358, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS358
c/n 3292
VA (Supermarine)
BS 358
Merlin 46
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FF 24-08-1942(W camera) 6MU 25-08-1942Benson 31-08-194247MU 14-10-1942Porthreath 06-11-1942Malta 07-11-1942Middle East 14-11-1942683S NWAfrica 01-05-1943SOC 08-03-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS359, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS359
c/n 3302
VA (Supermarine)
BS 359
Merlin 46
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FF 28-08-1942(X camera) 6MU 29-08-1942Benson 08-09-194247MU 11-10-1942Malta 06-11-194269S FTR ops 15-11-1942Pilot Officer Jennett missing
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS360, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS360
c/n 3332
VA (Supermarine)
BS 360
Merlin 46
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FF 04-09-1942(Y camera) 1PRU 07-09-194247MU 09-10-1942Catrine 20-11-1942Takoradi 27-12-194274OTU Engine caught fire abandoned nr Petah Tiqva 10-02-1944SOC 01-03-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS361, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS361
c/n 3405
VA (Supermarine)
BS 361
Merlin 46
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FF 17-09-19421PRU 19-09-1942Benson 10-11-1942Porthreath 29-11-1942NAfrica 01-12-1942NWAfrica 28-03-1943FAC3 10-02-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS362, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS362
c/n 3406
VA (Supermarine)
BS 362
Merlin 46
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FF 17-09-19421PRU 19-09-1942340S 09-10-194247MU 11-10-1942Catrine 20-11-1942Takoradi 27-12-1942NWAfrica 30-04-1943NAfricanASC 31-10-1943SOC 29-08-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS363, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS363
c/n 3408
VA (Supermarine)
BS 363
Merlin 46
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FF 19-09-19421PRU 22-09-194247MU 14-10-1942Catrine 20-11-1942Takoradi 27-12-1942SOC 06-12-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS364, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS364
c/n 3431
VA (Supermarine)
BS 364
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-09-1942Benson 27-09-1942Porthreath 31-10-1942Malta 06-11-1942683S Middle East Missing (Taranto) 09-03-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS365, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS365
c/n 3449
VA (Supermarine)
BS 365
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-09-19421PRU 01-10-194247MU 24-10-1942Catrine 20-11-1942Takoradi 27-12-1942Engine cut crashlanded in desert 60m ESE of Beni Suef FAC3 22-01-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS366, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS366
c/n 3478
VA (Supermarine)
BS 366
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-10-19421PRU 12-10-194247MU 06-11-1942Tynemouth 30-11-1942Takoradi 22-02-1943Middle East 16-05-1943SOC 31-05-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS367, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS367
c/n 3492
VA (Supermarine)
BS 367
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-10-19421PRU 16-10-1942Malta 06-11-194269S Missing (Taranto) 10-11-1942SOC Flt/Lt Coldbeck Pow SOCFH19.30
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS383, Mk IX
s/n BS383
c/n 3423
VA (Supermarine)
BS 383
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 22 September 1942. Delivered new to No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 25 September 1942. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 25 January 1943. Failed to return from Circus operation afternoon of 20 June 1943, in combat with Fw190s of JG26 near Abbeville. Sgt. K.D. Windsor may have bailed out (conflicting information).
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FF 22-09-1942401S 25-09-1942403S 25-01-1943AST 04-04-1943mods Shot down by Fw190 nr Auxi-le-Chateau 20-06-1943FH243.55 Flight Sergeant K D Windsor killed?
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS384, Mk IX
s/n BS384
c/n 3403
VA (Supermarine)
BS 384
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-09-1942306S 19-09-1942GAL 28-10-1942M63 install 453S 12-05-1943AST 08-06-1943mods 129S 17-07-1943316S 28-08-1943302S 28-09-1943313S 05-09-1944611S 08-10-1944FAAC 16-01-1945ros 312S 22-03-1945FAAC 23-07-1945sold scrap H.Bath 27-10-1949
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS385, Mk IX
s/n BS385
c/n 3435
VA (Supermarine)
BS 385
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 23 January 1943. To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 23 March 1943. Category E damage on 19 May 1943 while being operated by No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF, structural damage in a dive.
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FF 24-09-1942RAF Northolt 27-09-1942306S 30-09-1942402S 23-01-1943416S 23-03-1943AST 22-04-1943mods 421S struct fail in dive pilot thrown out of aircraft CE 19-05-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS386, Mk IX
s/n BS386
c/n 3426
VA (Supermarine)
BS 386
Merlin 61
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FF 25-09-1942122S 27-09-1942AST 08-01-1943mods 122S 12-01-1943R-RH 28-02-1943222S 19-05-1943313S 29-08-1944611S 08-10-1944303S 22-03-1945411S 05-04-194584ARF 17-05-194580OTU 07-06-1945to 6517M 20-02-1948RDAF 10-06-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS387, Mk IX
s/n BS387
c/n 3436
VA (Supermarine)
BS 387
Merlin 61
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FF 25-09-1942122S 01-10-1942CE ops 04-01-1943FH55.35 AST 24-02-1943delay due to lack of spares 611S 'FY-Y' 12-07-1944VA 03-10-1944mods 312S 08-10-1944Armee de l'Air 20-07-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS388, Mk IX
s/n BS388
c/n 3438
VA (Supermarine)
BS 388
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-09-1942331S 'FN-J' 27-09-1942AST 20-03-1943mods 331S 'FN-Z' or 'FN-S' 22-03-1943Damaged by Fw190s escorting Venturas to Caen CAC 14-04-1943ros Tyre burst on landing tipped up Melsbroek FAAC 28-08-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS389, Mk IX
s/n BS389
c/n 3444
VA (Supermarine)
BS 389
Merlin 61
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FF 28-09-1942331S 'FN-S' 01-10-1942Shot down by Fw190 in Channel 12-12-19422/Lt O R Malm baled out and rescued by fishing boat
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS390, Mk IX
s/n BS390
c/n 3445
VA (Supermarine)
BS 390
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-09-1942RAF Hand Sqdn Hullavington 01-10-1942FAAC 24-11-1942ros FACB 04-08-1943AST CRD VA 05-03-1944hook install RNAS 778S Crail for deck land trials 19-04-1944(used by 778B Flt in Pretoria Castle) 761S Henstridge 07-1944798BS Lee 10-1944Burst tyre landing nosed over Cat LQ 12-12-1944(L/C J Cooper) Overshot o/t in soft ground 03-02-1945(Lt WH Clisby)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS391, Mk IX
s/n BS391
c/n 3455
VA (Supermarine)
BS 391
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 1 October 1942. Delivered new to No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 3 October 1942. Category AC damage in a flying accident on 10 October 1942, repaired on site. Failed to return from Circus 190 on 8 November 1942, may have been shot down by Fw190s near Audruicq. Pilot Officer D.R. Manley killed.
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FF 01-10-1942401S 03-10-1942FAAC 10-10-1942ros Shot down by Fw190 08-11-1942Pilot Officer D R Manley killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS392, Mk IX
s/n BS392
c/n 3464
VA (Supermarine)
BS 392
Merlin 61
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FF 02-10-1942340S 'GW-S' 08-10-1942AST 12-01-1943mods CAC ops 30-01-1943ros 341S 26-03-1943129S 29-07-194380S 16-06-1944310S unable to jettison overload tank overshot landing ground loop CE North Weald 09-09-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS393, Mk IX
s/n BS393
c/n 3459
VA (Supermarine)
BS 393
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-10-1942340S 08-10-1942AST 09-02-1943mods 341S 26-03-1943CAC ops 14-05-1943ros 332S 24-12-1943229S '9R-T' 29-05-1944VA 16-11-1944mods to 5354M 12-06-1945SOC 05-09-1949
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS394, Mk IX
s/n BS394
c/n 3465
VA (Supermarine)
BS 394
Merlin 61
Walker:
With No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF when pilot baled out over Kent after engine fire during training flight, at 11:15 on 23 November 1943. Flying Officer R.J. Grigg injured.
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FF 03-10-1942340S 08-10-1942AST 08-11-1942341S 26-03-1943316S 22-08-1943302S 28-09-1943Westland for painting 23-01-1944312S 14-11-1944RHAF 29-04-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS395, Mk IX
s/n BS395
c/n 3479
VA (Supermarine)
BS 395
Merlin 61
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FF 10-10-1942332S 13-10-1942AST 10-12-1942mods 83GSU 10-04-1944274S 29-05-1944GAL 23-11-194457OTU 03-05-1945sold scrap H.Bath 27-10-1949
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS396, Mk IX
s/n BS396
c/n 3485
VA (Supermarine)
BS 396
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 30 January 1943. Failed to return from Ramrod to St. Omer in afternoon of 24 June 1943, shot down by Fw190s of JG26. Sergeant D.F. Small PoW.
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FF 10-10-1942332S 16-10-1942403S 30-01-1943Shot down by fighters nr St.Omer 24-06-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS397, Mk IX
s/n BS397
c/n 3480
VA (Supermarine)
BS 397
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 10 October 1942. Delivered new to No. 402(F) Squadron, RCAF on 11 October 1942. Damaged in a flying accident on 8 November 1942. Later classified as Category E and scrapped.
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FF 10-10-1942402S 11-10-1942FACB 08-11-1942recat E 18-11-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS398, Mk IX
s/n BS398
c/n 3486
VA (Supermarine)
BS 398
Merlin 61
Walker:
With No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF when pilot bailed out near West Malling following an engine fire and failure on 23 November 1943. Flying Officer R.J. Grigg bailed out at 200 feet, injured his leg upon landing in a tree.
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FF 10-10-1942WL Flying North Weald 13-10-1942332S AST 05-01-1943mods CB ops 27-03-1943GAL HAL 405ARF 06-08-1943421S 18-08-1943engine failed aircraft abandoned nr West Malling 23-11-1943FH232.25
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS399, Mk IX
s/n BS399
c/n 3490
VA (Supermarine)
BS 399
Merlin 61
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FF 11-10-1942332S 13-10-1942Collided with BS537 nr Southend CE 24-11-1942SOC 30-11-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS400, Mk IX
s/n BS400
c/n 3506
VA (Supermarine)
BS 400
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-10-194264S 18-10-1942453S 'FU-X' 02-04-1943AST 18-04-1943mods Missing presumed shot down off Schouwen 22-06-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS401, Mk IX
s/n BS401
c/n 3529
VA (Supermarine)
BS 401
Merlin 61
Walker:
Briefly with No. 441 (F) Squadron, RCAF in April 1945.
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FF 21-10-1942332S 25-10-1942AST 21-12-1942mods FACB 21-05-1943GAL 303S 02-03-1945441S 05-04-194580OTU 07-06-1945Armee de l'Air 14-03-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS402, Mk IX
s/n BS402
c/n 3522
VA (Supermarine)
BS 402
Merlin 61
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FF 18-10-1942122S 22-10-1942bounced on landing overturned Manston CE 22-11-1942GALFH19.5
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS403, Mk IX
s/n BS403
c/n 3530
VA (Supermarine)
BS 403
Merlin 61
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FF 21-10-1942306S 31-10-1942AST 02-02-1943CISU camera install 316S 14-03-1943FACB 09-08-1943AST RAE 11-1943gun firing and night fly trials with EN498 CRD AAEE 23-12-1943endurance trials with overload tanks AST 27-04-1944major repair 310S 26-09-1944CAC ops 01-02-1945Armee de l'Air 24-07-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS404, Mk IX
s/n BS404
c/n 3531
VA (Supermarine)
BS 404
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-10-1942306S 31-10-1942AST 23-01-1943mods struct fail in spin crashed High Street Elstree CE 02-02-1943FH76
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS405, Mk IX
s/n BS405
c/n 3543
VA (Supermarine)
BS 405
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-10-1942122S 31-10-1942AST 29-04-1943mods 222S 19-05-1943Escort Venturas to Gosnay Shot down by Fw190 off Dutch coast 12-06-1943FH198.5
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS406, Mk IX
s/n BS406
c/n 3540
VA (Supermarine)
BS 406
Merlin 61
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FF 24-10-1942340S 'GW-D' 31-10-1942Shot down by Fw190s nr Abbeville 09-01-1943FH49.30 S/Lt J Moreac killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS407, Mk IX
s/n BS407
c/n 3549
VA (Supermarine)
BS 407
Merlin 61
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FF 23-10-1942332S 31-10-1942Missing presumed shot down by Fw190s nr Le Treport 08-04-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS408, Mk IX
s/n BS408
c/n 3555
VA (Supermarine)
BS 408
Merlin 61
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FF 25-10-1942315S 31-10-1942ASTH 31-01-1943CB ops 15-04-1943GAL GRD RAE 04-12-1943gun firing trials AST 23-02-194433S 01-06-1944310S 08-07-1944504S 15-07-1944303S collision with MH323 on takeoff CAC 25-07-1944ros CAL 10-11-1944mods M63 install SAAF 23-06-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS409, Mk IX
s/n BS409
c/n 3556
VA (Supermarine)
BS 409
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-10-1942315S 'PK-B' 31-10-1942ros AST 12-01-1943mods 19S 21-08-1943enemy action CAC 21-01-1944ros 80S 29-05-1944310S 05-09-1944VAO 29-09-1944mods 312S 27-08-1945RHAF 06-05-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS410, Mk IX
s/n BS410
c/n 6S 200618
VA (Supermarine)
BS 410
Merlin 61
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FF 28-10-1942315S 06-11-1942AST 15-03-1943mods Engine cut forcelanded in France 13-05-1943[Works order 3559]
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS411, Mk IX
s/n BS411
c/n 3563
VA (Supermarine)
BS 411
Merlin 61
Walker:
Reported with No. 416 Squadron, RCAF, not confirmed.
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FF 28-10-1942315S 06-11-1942AST 28-02-1943mods 303S 06-06-1943308S 16-11-1943Engine cut forcelanded nr Lisieux 19-11-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS427, Mk VI
s/n BS427
c/n 3299
VA (Supermarine)
BS 427
Merlin 47
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FF 27-08-19426MU 29-08-194276MU 01-09-1942Ripley 08-09-1942Middle East 28-10-1942SOC 25-05-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS428, Mk IX
s/n BS428
c/n 3298
VA (Supermarine)
BS 428
Merlin 61
Walker:
With No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF in August 1942, coded "AE*U". With No. 416 Squadron, RCAF in March 1943. With No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 20 May 1943. Category AC damage on operations on 24 June 1943, repaired on site. Left this unit by September 1943. Survived the war, sold for scrap in 1949.
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FF 26-08-1942402S 'AE-U' 26-08-1942RAE 11-1942neg G trials AAEE 14-01-1943level speed perf with and without 500lb bomb on mod carrier 19-01-1943brief hand trials with 250lb and 500lb bomb comparison trials and range det ice guard and guns removed fuel cool install in wing root. New carrier of RAF design and manufacture install 15-02-1943416S 23-03-1943AST 31-03-1943mods 421S 20-05-1943CAC ops 24-06-1943ros 405ARF 14-09-1943611S 15-10-1944sold scrap H.Bath 24-11-1949
last update: 2025-February-05
Spitfire BS429, Mk IX
s/n BS429
c/n 3303
VA (Supermarine)
BS 429
Merlin 61
Walker:
Conflicting reports on unit when this aircraft was lost on operations on 6 September 1942, may have been No. 317 Squadron, RAF or No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF.
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FF 27-08-1942317S 30-08-1942Shot down by fighters nr Abbeville 06-09-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS430, Mk IX
s/n BS430
c/n 3318
VA (Supermarine)
BS 430
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 31 August 1942. Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 1 September 1942, coded "AE*N", named "Canadian Pacific I". Category AC damage in a flying accident on 25 January 1943, repaired on site. With No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 23 March 1943, coded "DN*N". Was flown by Squadron Leader F.H. Boulton on 18 sorties with 416 Sdn., claimed 1 Bf 109 and 3 Fw 190s destroyed on these missions. Lost on Ramrod 71 on 13 May 1943, struck by flak. Squadron Leader F.H. Boulton PoW, repatriated in October 1943 due to wounds.
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FF 31-08-1942402S 01-09-1942FAAC 25-01-1943ros AST 10-02-1943mods 416S 'DN-N' 23-03-1943Shot down by fighters nr Le Touquet 13-05-1943
last update: 2025-February-05
Spitfire BS431, Mk IX
s/n BS431
c/n 3309
VA (Supermarine)
BS 431
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-08-1942317S 30-08-1942306S FACB 30-11-1942GAL 82MU 27-08-1943Cardinal Gibbons 03-09-1943Casablanca 20-09-1943Middle East 02-08-1945SOC 02-08-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS432, Mk IX
s/n BS432
c/n 3319
VA (Supermarine)
BS 432
Merlin 61
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FF 31-08-1942306S 'UZ-C' 01-09-1942Combat with Fw190 during Circus 235 08-11-1942FH49.20 Flight Sergeant Z Rozworski killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS433, Mk IX
s/n BS433
c/n 3320
VA (Supermarine)
BS 433
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 31 August 1942. Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron on 1 September 1942. Category AC damage on operations on 26 January 1943. May have also been with No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, not confirmed.
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FF 31-08-1942402S 01-09-1942CAC ops 26-01-1943GAL 316S 10-07-1943AST 12-07-1943mods M63 install 302S 28-09-1943611S 20-09-1944312S 08-10-1944SOC 22-02-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS434, Mk IX
s/n BS434
c/n 3346
VA (Supermarine)
BS 434
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered to RCAF one day after first flight. Used by No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 7 September 1942 to early 1943, coded "AE*J". To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 23 March 1942, after modifications. Category AC damage on 24 April 1942. Left this unit by end of 1942. Later used for glider towing trials.
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FF 06-09-1942402S 07-09-1942AST 27-02-1943mods 416S 23-03-1943FAAC 24-04-1943GAL CRD Malcolms White Waltham 25-12-1943tail wheel tow hook install AAEE 24-01-1944trials MAP Airborne Forces Experimental Estab Sherburn in Elmet 02-1944trials as tug for fully loaded Hotspur glider (M63 eng) Scottish Aviation 20-12-1944MWW 29-12-1945RAE 21-02-1946GAAC 03-04-1946SOC 31-10-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS435, Mk IX
s/n BS435
c/n 3324
VA (Supermarine)
BS 435
Merlin 61
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FF 31-08-1942611S 'FY-F' 02-09-1942Shot down by Fw190 off Boulogne 05-02-1943S/Ldr H T Armstrong DFC killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS436, Mk VI
s/n BS436
c/n 3349
VA (Supermarine)
BS 436
Merlin 47
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8MU 08-09-1942602S 24-09-1942swung off runway Skaebrae overshot CE 21-10-1942SOC 29-10-1942Scottish Aviation 31-12-194239MU nea 26-12-1943? SOC 20-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS437, Mk VI
s/n BS437
c/n 3347
VA (Supermarine)
BS 437
Merlin 47
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(PC)SR FF 06-09-19428MU 08-09-1942602S 26-09-1942FAAC 08-11-1942129S 08-12-1942234S 25-01-194366S 12-05-1943313S 04-07-1943310S 29-07-1943504S 24-09-1943SOC 24-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS438, Mk IX
s/n BS438
c/n 3342
VA (Supermarine)
BS 438
Merlin 61
Walker:
Reported with No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF 1942, coded "AE*U", but not confirmed by RAF records. Lost on 18 November 1942 while with 306 Squadron, struck a balloon cable.
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FF 05-09-1942306S 10-09-1942Hit balloon cable during armed recce nr Le Treport and crashed 18-11-1942SOC 23-11-1942FH39.35 Pilot Officer M Benoit killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS439, Mk IX
s/n BS439
c/n 3343
VA (Supermarine)
BS 439
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-09-194264S 08-09-1942GAL 13-10-1942316S 11-05-1943AST 15-05-1943mods M63 install FACA 25-06-1943165S 28-09-1943AST 04-12-1943CFE 16-09-1944FAAC 09-04-1945ros to 5972M 02-07-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS440, Mk IX
s/n BS440
c/n 3348
VA (Supermarine)
BS 440
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered to No. 402 (F) Squadron 4 days after first flight, on 10 September 1942. Lost during Rodeo on 16 February 1943. Shot down by Fw190s over Channel. Flying Officer O.R. Brown killed. Had 160:00 logged time when written off.
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FF 06-09-1942402S 10-09-1942Missing nr Cap Gris Nez 16-02-1943FH160 Flying Officer O R Brown killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS441, Mk IX
s/n BS441
c/n 3363
VA (Supermarine)
BS 441
Merlin 61
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FF 09-09-194264S 10-09-1942AST 17-03-1943mods 453S 'FU-T' 02-04-1943129S 'DV-T' 17-07-1943disintegrated in high speed dive Jacobs Farm Maldon Essex 09-08-1943FH315.45
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS442, Mk VI
s/n BS442
c/n 3375
VA (Supermarine)
BS 442
Merlin 47
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
(PC)SR FF 11-09-194212MU 13-09-1942602S 24-09-1942129S 29-11-1942234S 25-01-194366S 12-05-1943313S 04-07-1943310S 29-07-1943FACA 27-08-1943504S 24-09-1943NFT 13-08-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS443, Mk IX
s/n BS443
c/n 3364
VA (Supermarine)
BS 443
Merlin 61
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FF 10-09-1942306S 12-09-1942Crashed trying to land returning from bomber escort Sholden Kent 09-10-1942SOC 21-10-1942FH16.45 Flight Sergeant Kordasiewicz killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS444, Mk IX
s/n BS444
c/n 3365
VA (Supermarine)
BS 444
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-09-194264S 12-09-1942FAAC 23-11-1942ros 331S 23-12-1942VA/AST 23-01-1943mods 331S 'FN-S' 26-01-1943Shot down by fighters during Circus to Vlissingen 16-04-1943Flight Sergeant G K H Koren killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS445, Mk IX
s/n BS445
c/n 3373
VA (Supermarine)
BS 445
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-09-1942133S 13-09-1942331S 29-09-1942FACB 05-01-1943GAL M63 install 332S 06-11-1943317S FAAC 20-02-1944ros SOC 27-11-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS446, Mk IX
s/n BS446
c/n 3374
VA (Supermarine)
BS 446
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-09-1942133S 13-09-1942Ran out of fuel and forcelanded in Brittany 26-09-1942Pilot Officer W H Baker killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS447, Mk IX
s/n BS447
c/n 3383
VA (Supermarine)
BS 447
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-09-1942133S 13-09-1942Ran out of fuel and forcelanded in Brittany 26-09-1942Pilot Officer RS Smith evaded
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS448, Mk VI
s/n BS448
c/n 3494
VA (Supermarine)
BS 448
Merlin 47
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-10-194239MU 14-10-1942CRD R-RH 27-10-1942616S 13-01-1943force-landed Ibsley CE 04-03-1943ros attacked by Typhoons during Spartan exercise. collided with BR302 aircraft abandoned crashed High Waterton Devon CE 24-03-1943FH83.05
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS449, Mk IX
s/n BS449
c/n 3384
VA (Supermarine)
BS 449
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-09-1942306S 15-09-1942engine failed on takeoff tip onto nose CB 08-12-1942GAL 131S 27-09-1943FAAC 03-03-1944AST to 6035M 02-08-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS450, Mk IX
s/n BS450
c/n 3386
VA (Supermarine)
BS 450
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered to No. 402 (F) Squadron RCAF 2 days after first flight, on 13 September 1942. Lost during Rodeo 115, in combat with JG26 near Guines. Conflicting report on pilot killed, either Sgt. H.E. McGraw or F/Sgt. R.B. Honeycombe.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-09-1942402S 15-09-1942Shot down by fighters nr Guines 04-12-1942Flight Sergeant H E McGraw killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS451, Mk IX
s/n BS451
c/n 3393
VA (Supermarine)
BS 451
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF one day after first flight, on 16 September 1942. Category AC damage in a flying accident on 3 October 1942. Left this unit by November 1942. Survived the war, to SAAF in 1947.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 15-09-1942402S 16-09-1942FAAC 03-10-1942611S 'FY-V' 29-11-1942AST 05-04-1943mods 315S 09-04-1943303S 06-06-1943308S 16-11-1943229S 26-01-1944VA 16-11-1944mods 229S 17-11-1944ASTE 12-02-1945SAAF 20-09-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS452, Mk IX
s/n BS452
c/n 3395
VA (Supermarine)
BS 452
Merlin 61
Walker:
To No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 23 February 1944. Left this unit by June 1945.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-09-1942306S 17-09-1942FACB 21-10-1942GAL 65S 'YT-L' 13-08-1943AST 30-09-1943mods FAAC 15-10-1943421S 23-02-194453OTU 08-06-1945sold VA 05-12-1949
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS453, Mk VI
s/n BS453
c/n 3496
VA (Supermarine)
BS 453
Merlin 47
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-10-19428MU 14-10-1942616S 06-11-1942collision with BR858 during Spartan exercise crashed nr Oxford CE 04-03-1943MMO 31-08-1943CRD Perfect Motors Elmdon 16-09-1943CRD VA 11-01-1944SOC 05-02-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS454, Mk IXc
s/n BS454
c/n 3396
VA (Supermarine)
BS 454
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-09-1942crashed on company test flt SOC 16-09-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS455, Mk IX
s/n BS455
c/n 3400
VA (Supermarine)
BS 455
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-09-1942306S 18-09-1942Missing presumed shot down by Fw190 off Berck 31-12-1942FH89.30 F/Lt J Gil killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS456, Mk IX
s/n BS456
c/n 3401
VA (Supermarine)
BS 456
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-09-1942306S 19-09-1942HAL 20-11-1942FTR ops 26-02-1943cancel AST 14-03-1943mods CAC ops 17-05-1943ros 316S 12-07-1943Missing presumed shot down by Fw190s nr Rouen 22-08-1943FH314.45
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS457, Mk IX
s/n BS457
c/n 3402
VA (Supermarine)
BS 457
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-09-1942VAWD 19-09-1942306S 24-09-1942SF Northolt 30-09-1942316S 14-03-1943AST 18-04-1943mods Collided with BS302 nr Montreuil 09-08-1943FH328.10 Flying Officer L A Kondracki killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS458, Mk IX
s/n BS458
c/n 3410
VA (Supermarine)
BS 458
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-09-1942CRD R-RH 21-09-1942332S 15-10-1942AST 04-10-1943611S 17-07-1944CAC ops 23-08-1944ros 312S 08-10-1944CRD VAO 25-11-1944mods Engine cut forcelanded nr Bradwell Bay 01-02-1945ASTE recat E SOC 18-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS459, Mk IX
s/n BS459
c/n 3418
VA (Supermarine)
BS 459
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-09-1942306S 25-09-1942HAL FTR after collision with BS241 over Channel 26-01-1943FH102.35 Warrant Officer W Jasinski killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS460, Mk VI
s/n BS460
c/n 3498
VA (Supermarine)
BS 460
Merlin 47
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-10-194239MU 16-10-1942616S 10-11-1942ros 20-03-1943CAC ops 11-02-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS461, Mk IX
s/n BS461
c/n 3416
VA (Supermarine)
BS 461
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 23-09-1942122S 26-09-1942R-RH 19-03-1943222S 19-05-194319S 24-08-1943AST 15-09-1943229S 01-07-1944FAAC 25-07-1944ros CAC ops 14-09-1944303S 02-11-1944VAO 23-01-1945mods SCR trainer 25-01-1945Caught fire after landing Hawarden CB 26-04-1945recat E SOC 21-07-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS462, Mk IX
s/n BS462
c/n 3409
VA (Supermarine)
BS 462
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-09-1942306S 25-09-1942316S 14-03-1943AST 31-03-1943mods 80S 29-05-1944Glycol leak abandoned over Channel 10-06-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS463, Mk IX
s/n BS463
c/n 3419
VA (Supermarine)
BS 463
Merlin 61
Walker:
With No. 441 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 5 April 1945. Left this unit by June 1945.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-09-1942306S 26-09-1942316S 14-03-1943AST 07-04-1943mods CAC ops 11-06-1943ros 331S 12-11-1943303S 25-09-1944CAC ops 25-02-1945ros VAO 441S 05-04-194580OTU 07-06-1945air collision with BS242 nr Durham 13-12-1945SOC 10-01-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS464, Mk IX
s/n BS464
c/n 6S 196667
VA (Supermarine)
BS 464
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 23-09-1942122S 26-09-1942AST 12-01-1943mods 222S 19-05-1943312S 21-01-1945FAAC 08-04-1945Armee de l'Air 21-08-1946extant Musee de l'Air Paris as GW-S [Works order 3417]
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS465, Mk VI
s/n BS465
c/n 3495
VA (Supermarine)
BS 465
Merlin 47
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-10-194239MU 14-10-1942R-RH 31-10-1942616S 13-01-1943force-landed during Spartan exercise 04-03-1943ros Shot down by Fw190s off Brittany 05-04-1943F/Lt P B Wright DFC killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS466, Mk IX
s/n BS466
c/n 3441
VA (Supermarine)
BS 466
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-09-1942331S 01-10-1942AST 17-02-1943mods 229S 24-05-1944overshot landing struck obst nosed over Detling 28-05-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS467, Mk IX
s/n BS467
c/n 3421
VA (Supermarine)
BS 467
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-09-1942331S 26-09-1942FACB 24-03-1943AST 47MU 14-09-1943Ocean Rider 23-09-1943Casablanca 10-10-1943NAfricanASC 31-10-1943Middle East 05-04-1945SOC 05-02-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS468, Mk IX
s/n BS468
c/n 3420
VA (Supermarine)
BS 468
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-09-1942331S 'FN-B' 26-09-1942AST 09-02-1943mods Missing escorting Venturas to Caen presumed shot down by fighters nr Caen 13-04-1943Flight Sergeant B L Gilje killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS469, Mk IX
s/n BS469
c/n 3439
VA (Supermarine)
BS 469
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-09-1942331S 'FN-V' 01-10-1942Shot down by Fw190 off Cromer 12-12-1942Capt S Sem killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS470, Mk IX
s/n BS470
c/n 3440
VA (Supermarine)
BS 470
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-09-1942331S 'FN-X' 01-10-1942Scottish Aviation 04-07-1944VAO 12-01-1945mods sold scrap R.J.Coley 09-02-1950
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS471, Mk IX
s/n BS471
c/n 3437
VA (Supermarine)
BS 471
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-09-1942331S 'FN-T' 27-09-1942ASTH 31-01-1943Diversionary sweep to Vlissingen Missing nr Walcheren 02-05-1943Flight Sergeant F Eitzen killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS472, Mk VI
s/n BS472
c/n 3497
VA (Supermarine)
BS 472
Merlin 47
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
(PC)SR FF 11-10-194238MU 15-10-1942602S 17-11-1942129S 29-11-1942234S 22-01-194366S 12-05-1943313S 04-07-1943310S 29-07-1943504S 24-09-194339MU nea 10-06-1944SOC 12-03-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS473, Mk IX
s/n BS473
c/n 3443
VA (Supermarine)
BS 473
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-09-1942543S 01-10-1942reported Cv PRU standards by VAWD wts and CG load at WD 27-10-194247MU 21-02-1943Llan 11-03-1943Gibraltar 24-03-1943NWAfrica 30-04-1943SOC 28-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS474, Mk IX
s/n BS474
c/n 3457
VA (Supermarine)
BS 474
Merlin 61
Walker:
First flight on 3 October 1942. Named "Canadian Pacific I". With No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 8 October 1942. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 25 January 1943, coded "KH*L". Category AC damage on operations on 17 June 1943. Repaired on site. Left this unit by March 1944. Survived the war, became training aid in 1946.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-10-1942401S 08-10-1942403S 25-01-1943AST mods CAC ops 17-06-1943ros 501S 08-03-1944274S 'JJ-N' 29-05-1944to 5955M 15-06-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS489, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS489
c/n 3502
VA (Supermarine)
BS 489
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-10-19421PRU 18-10-1942Porthreath 29-11-1942Middle East 01-12-1942NAfrica 06-12-1942Engine cut forcelanded at Djidjelli 18-12-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS490, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS490
c/n 3520
VA (Supermarine)
BS 490
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-10-19421PRU 21-10-1942Porthreath 29-11-1942Middle East 01-12-1942NAfrica 06-12-1942FAAC 4PRU 31-12-1942SOC
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS491, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS491
c/n 3539
VA (Supermarine)
BS 491
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-10-19421PRU 27-10-1942544S 541S 29-11-1942HAL 24-06-1943dived into ground Wraxall Somerset [overshot landing Sumburgh tip onto nose dbf] 16-12-1943FLt RP Johnson killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS492, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS492
c/n 3560
VA (Supermarine)
BS 492
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-10-19421PRU 01-11-1942544S 06-12-1942HAL 11-08-1943SOC 22-05-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS493, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS493
c/n 3580
VA (Supermarine)
BS 493
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-10-19421PRU 02-11-194247MU 17-12-1942Inchanga 11-01-1943Takoradi 07-02-1943SOC 13-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS494, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS494
c/n 3581
VA (Supermarine)
BS 494
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-10-19421PRU 02-11-1942Gibraltar 25-12-1942NAfrica 28-12-1942? 4PRU enemy action C2 05-01-1943Collided with Hurricane HW138 on approach Maison Blanche 06-02-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS495, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS495
c/n 3594
VA (Supermarine)
BS 495
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-11-19421PRU 13-11-1942Porthreath 06-12-1942Malta 12-12-1942? 4PRU 682S Missing (Bizerte) 17-12-1942SOC 31-12-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS496, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS496
c/n 3648
VA (Supermarine)
BS 496
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-11-19421PRU Porthreath 03-12-1942Malta 07-12-1942683S Engine caught fire crashed in sea off Malta 03-03-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS497, PR Mk XI
s/n BS497
c/n 3647
VA (Supermarine)
BS 497
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
1PRU Benson wts and CG loading of first Cv at WD 17-11-1942FF 21-11-1942Y camera install 1PRU 23-11-1942542S 03-12-1942543S 26-07-1943HAL 23-10-19438OTU 02-07-1945dived into ground nr Newmarket CE 25-07-1946SOC 28-07-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS498, PR Mk XI
s/n BS498
c/n 3682
VA (Supermarine)
BS 498
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-11-19421PRU Benson 07-12-1942541S 26-03-1943Missing (Dortmund-Ems Canal) 13-06-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS499, PR Mk XI
s/n BS499
c/n 3684
VA (Supermarine)
BS 499
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-11-19421PRU Benson 07-12-1942541S 13-12-1942VASM 27-09-1943universal camera install Benson 18-06-1944HAL 27-09-1944to 5933M 28-02-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS500, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS500
c/n 3683
VA (Supermarine)
BS 500
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-11-1942Benson 30-11-1942Porthreath 09-12-1942Malta 683S Missing on PR from Malta 12-01-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS501, PR Mk XI
s/n BS501
c/n 3716
VA (Supermarine)
BS 501
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 01-12-19421PRU Benson 07-12-1942542S 14-12-1942VASM 27-09-1943universal camera install 541S 16-10-1943Missing (Essen) [5-03-1943]
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS502, PR Mk XI
s/n BS502
c/n 3717
VA (Supermarine)
BS 502
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-12-19421PRU Benson 07-12-1942542S 14-12-1942VASM 27-09-1943universal camera install Missing (V-sites) 25-02-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS503, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS503
c/n 3824
VA (Supermarine)
BS 503
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-01-19436MU 11-01-1943Benson 29-03-1943Porthreath 05-05-1943India 31-05-1943SOC 05-01-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS504, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS504
c/n 3828
VA (Supermarine)
BS 504
Merlin 46
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-01-19436MU 11-01-19431PRU 10-02-1943Porthreath 18-03-1943Missing on transit flight between Gibraltar and North Africa 29-03-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS505, PR Mk IV (Trop)
s/n BS505
c/n 3862
VA (Supermarine)
BS 505
Merlin 45
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-01-19436MU 14-01-19431PRU 10-02-1943Porthreath 18-03-1943Gibraltar 27-03-1943C2 ops 07-07-1943HAL 8OTU 07-03-1944u/c jammed bellylanded at Dyce CAC 12-11-1944recat E 16-11-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS506, Mk IX
s/n BS506
c/n 3636
VA (Supermarine)
BS 506
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-11-1942CRD Boulton Paul 29-11-1942VA 24-01-1943Boulton Paul 18-02-1943mods 9MU 18-03-1943315S 14-04-1943AST 07-05-1943mods 303S 06-06-1943308S 16-11-1943AST 08-01-1944major repair 229S 17-06-1944CAC ops 23-06-1944ros CFE 29-08-1944Hit obstruction in forced landing in bad weather Southend airfield FAAC 13-02-1946recat E 24-06-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS507, Mk IX
s/n BS507
c/n 3527
VA (Supermarine)
BS 507
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-10-1942332S 31-10-1942AST 23-01-1943mods engine failed wheels up landing overturned CE Rochester 04-06-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS508, Mk IX
s/n BS508
c/n 3528
VA (Supermarine)
BS 508
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-10-1942332S 31-10-1942AST 08-01-1943mods 317S Llanbedr taxy into MA220 waiting takeoff CE 29-02-1944AST 312S 23-02-1945332S 30-03-1948RHAF 01-04-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS509, Mk IX
s/n BS509
c/n 3535
VA (Supermarine)
BS 509
Merlin 61
Walker:
Delivered new to No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF 9 days after first flight, on 31 October 1942. To No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 20 May 1943. Reported with No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, coded "KH*H" when lost on 29 July 1943 by ORB 403 Sqn. but not confirmed by RAF records. Probably still with 421 (F) Squadron when lost. Also reported with No. 416 (F) Squadron, no dates.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-10-1942402S 31-10-1942AST 17-02-1943mods 23-03-1943421S 20-05-1943403S 20-07-1943Shot down by fighters nr Amsterdam 29-07-1943FH291.45
last update: 2025-February-05
Spitfire BS510, Mk IX
s/n BS510
c/n 3536
VA (Supermarine)
BS 510
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-10-1942611S 31-10-1942Shot down by Fw190 off Hardelot 14-03-1943Flight Sergeant R M McLay RAAF missing
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS511, Mk IX
s/n BS511
c/n 3542
VA (Supermarine)
BS 511
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-10-194212MU 21-11-194247MU 06-12-1942Malta 14-12-1942Gibraltar 13-01-1943NWAfrica 20-02-194381S 'FL-Y' 73S 32S SOC 15-03-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS512, Mk IX
s/n BS512
c/n 3551
VA (Supermarine)
BS 512
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-10-194239MU 27-03-1943122S 11-05-1943AST 15-05-1943mods 222S 19-05-194319S 24-08-194380S 02-06-1944310S 05-09-1944VA 26-10-1944mods CAC ops 11-03-1945SAAF 15-05-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS513, Mk IX
s/n BS513
c/n 3552
VA (Supermarine)
BS 513
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-10-1942315S 31-10-1942FAAC 22-01-1943AST 09-03-1943mods 303S 06-06-1943FAAC 07-10-1943308S 16-11-1943FAAC 02-03-194433S 28-06-1944310S CAC ops 07-07-1944ros to 6043M
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS514, Mk IX
s/n BS514
c/n 3553
VA (Supermarine)
BS 514
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-10-1942315S 30-10-1942AST 08-01-1943mods Collided with Fw190 on B-17 escort to Billancourt 04-04-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS515, Mk IX
s/n BS515
c/n 3554
VA (Supermarine)
BS 515
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-10-1942315S 30-10-1942Shot down by Bf109 nr Grandvillers 13-03-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS530, Mk IX
s/n BS530
c/n 3460
VA (Supermarine)
BS 530
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 331S 04-10-1942GAL 26-05-1943222MU 18-09-1943Empire Marlow 07-10-1943Casablanca 19-10-1943NAfrica 30-11-1943Hit ground during low-level attack nr Savona Italy 21-09-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS531, Mk IX
s/n BS531
c/n 3454
VA (Supermarine)
BS 531
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-09-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 331S 'FN-A' 03-10-1942CAC ops 04-03-1943Shot down by fighters off Somme Estuary 04-05-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS532, Mk IX
s/n BS532
c/n 3467
VA (Supermarine)
BS 532
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 340S 'GW-U' 08-10-1942341S 07-04-1943222S 28-07-1943421S 24-08-1943Damaged by Fw190s and abandoned nr Roye 03-10-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Ramrod 1943-10-03 to 1943-10-03
(F) Sqn (RCAF) Headcorn
>ORB 421 Squadron Ramrod 259 1943-10-03
Fighter Sweep. In HARDELOT, swept under Appledore control, BETHUNE-AMIENS-ROYE-area, at 20,000 to 22,000 ft. 421 bounced 25+ a/c passing beneath wing. Full wing engaged combats intermingled all in the vicinity of ROYE/AMY a/d between 7,000 and 15,000 ft. 9 pilots of wing fired on at least 15 a/c. Seven aircraft were seen to crash and two parachutes to open. several other aircraft were going down and are believed to have crashed. Enemy casualties inflicted by 421 squadron - Pilot Officer Hicks, 1 FW 190 destroyed - Pilot Officer Packard 1 FW 190 destroyed - Pilot Officer Linton and Flying Officer Cook 1 FW 190 destroyed (shared). Our casualties - Flying Officer Cook missing - heard over R/T to say "baling out"
HERE FOLLOWS THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF Flight Lieutenant COOK'S ACCOUNT OF THIS MISSION
"I don't remember much of the dogfight only that it was a good one. Never underestimate the fighting ability of the German fighter boys, they were good. I was flying number two to my good friend Karl Linton when we engaged a good number of FW 190's. Karl and I shared one. I remember we were jumped by two coming in at five o'clock and a little above us. I saw the number one firing but the tracers were going behind us and he was a little out of range. I waited until he was within a good range then called a break to starboard which meant we would tum into them and perhaps get on their tails. We swung around and I put old AUV through the gate; this was called pushing the "tit". All of a sudden I had very little power. I quickly scanned the instrument panel and noticed my oil pressure dropping. I tried to keep up with Karl but found it impossible.
Soon I was streaming glycol and going nowhere but down. I called up my CO who was Squadron Leader Buck McNair and told him of my predicament. I said that I was going to try for the Channel and bale out. He asked if I needed an escort and I said that I thought that I could make it on my own. I checked the outside of the aircraft and could see that there was a great deal of oil on the cowling on the port side of the engine. I was also making quite a trail of white glycol smoke. I was awakened suddenly from my inspection by black puffs of smoke around me. Flak. I looked down and noticed aerodromes. I also noticed that I was lower than I thought I should be. I figured that I was between Poix and Couty. If that were the case then I had better forget the Channel
THE FULL ACCOUNT OF Flight Lieutenant COOK'S EVASION STORY CAN BE FOUND IN HIS SERVICE RECORD BELOW
Spitfire BS533, Mk IX
s/n BS533
c/n 3461
VA (Supermarine)
BS 533
Merlin 61
Walker:
Converted to Mk. IX before delivery. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 19 April 1943, left this unit by 29 April 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 340S 08-10-1942CAC ops 22-01-1943ros 403S 19-04-1943AST 29-04-1943mods FAAC 09-10-1943AST to 6205M 22-11-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS534, Mk IX
s/n BS534
c/n 3515
VA (Supermarine)
BS 534
Merlin 61
Walker:
Converted to Mk. IX on production line. With No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 18 October 1942. To No. 403 (F) Squadron on 25 January 1943. Left this unit by 28 February 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 401S 18-10-1942403S 25-01-1943AST 28-02-1943mods 33S 23-05-1944310S 08-07-1944504S 15-07-1944VA 21-09-1944mods 303S Engine lost power forcelanded in Netherlands 13-10-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS535, Mk IX
s/n BS535
c/n 3483
VA (Supermarine)
BS 535
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 340S 'GW-B' 11-10-1942Missing from sweep to St.Omer 31-10-1942FH11.50 Lt E C Helies killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS536, Mk IX
s/n BS536
c/n 3481
VA (Supermarine)
BS 536
Merlin 61
Walker:
Converted to Mk. IX on production line. With No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 12 October 1942. Lost in afternoon of 4 December 1942, in a dogfight with JG26 during Rodeo 115, near Guines, France. Pilot Officer J.W. Fiander wounded, bailed, out, PoW.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 401S 12-10-1942Shot down by Fw190 off Ambleteuse 04-12-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS537, Mk IX
s/n BS537
c/n 3484
VA (Supermarine)
BS 537
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 332S 11-10-1942Collided with BS399 nr Southend FACE 20-11-1942SOC 30-11-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS538, Mk IX
s/n BS538
c/n 3482
VA (Supermarine)
BS 538
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 340S 11-10-1942AST mods 341S 26-03-1943CB ops 05-05-1943GAL 501S 06-12-1943313S 14-09-1944611S 05-10-1944SAAF 04-12-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS539, Mk IX
s/n BS539
c/n 3596
VA (Supermarine)
BS 539
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-11-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 64S 15-11-1942453S 02-04-1943AST 05-04-1943mods 129S collision with MA598 on takeoff Hornchurch CB 15-07-1943AST 411ARF 08-01-1944501S CB ops 29-02-1944VAO 58OTU 12-04-1945Armee de l'Air 12-09-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS540, Mk IX
s/n BS540
c/n 3517
VA (Supermarine)
BS 540
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 332S 'AH-E' 18-10-1942CAC ops 12-12-1942AST 09-02-1943mods Shot down by Fw190s crash landed nr Walcheren 02-05-19432/Lt N J Fuglesang PoW Shot by Gestapo after 'Great Escape'
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS541, Mk IX
s/n BS541
c/n 3514
VA (Supermarine)
BS 541
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 453S 18-05-1943engine failed on takeoff force-landed Averley Essex CE 01-06-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS542, Mk IX
s/n BS542
c/n 3516
VA (Supermarine)
BS 542
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 15-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 340S 17-10-1942FAAC 16-01-1943CAC ops 28-02-1943ros 341S 06-04-1943FAAC 17-01-1944ros 303S 14-10-1944AST 19-10-1944mods 308S 22-10-1944Armee de l'Air 14-03-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS543, Mk IX
s/n BS543
c/n 3534
VA (Supermarine)
BS 543
Merlin 61
Walker:
Converted to Mk. IX on production line. To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 9 June 1943. Left this unit by 10 June 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 23-10-1942AFDU Duxford 08-11-1942AAEE 13-12-1942M66 (RM10SM) install comparison trials with BS534 and BS551 see BS534 for details CRD VA 22-02-1943403S 09-06-1943611S 10-06-1943AST 19-06-1943mods 485S 'OU-F' 06-07-1943Missing from sweep 22-08-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS544, Mk IX
s/n BS544
c/n 3518
VA (Supermarine)
BS 544
Merlin 61
Walker:
Converted to Mk. IX on production line. To No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 24 February 1944. Left this unit by 9 January 1945.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 64S 21-10-1942FACB 12-04-1943GAL M63 install 421S 24-02-1944310S 09-01-1945312S 02-09-1945Armee de l'Air 17-10-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS545, Mk IX
s/n BS545
c/n 3545
VA (Supermarine)
BS 545
Merlin 61
Walker:
Converted to Mk. IX on production line. Named "Brazil I". To No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 15 June 1943. Left this unit by 22 June 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 122S 27-10-1942CAC ops 01-05-1943ros 403S 16-06-1943229S FAAC 22-06-1944274S FAAC 08-08-1944ros VA 10-11-1944mods Armee de l'Air 24-05-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS546, Mk IX
s/n BS546
c/n 3546
VA (Supermarine)
BS 546
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 122S 27-10-1942AST 10-12-1942mods Shot down by Fw190s nr Cassel 28-02-1943FH6.50 Flight Sergeant G F Crowley killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS547, Mk IX
s/n BS547
c/n 3607
VA (Supermarine)
BS 547
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-11-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 611S 10-11-1942341S 21-04-1943AST 24-12-1943mods 229S 16-06-1944VA 15-09-1944mods sold Vickers 05-12-1949
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS548, Mk IX
s/n BS548
c/n 3576
VA (Supermarine)
BS 548
Merlin 61
Walker:
Converted to Mk. IX on production line. To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 31 January 1943. Category AC damage on operations on 12 March 1943, repaired on site. Left this unit by 2 April 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 340S 'GW-B' 07-11-1942AST 10-12-1942mods 402S 31-01-1943Damaged by Fw190 during Ramrod to Rouen CAC 12-03-1943ros 341S 02-04-1943Shot down by Fw190s 20m E of Le Havre 17-04-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS549, Mk IX
s/n BS549
c/n 3577
VA (Supermarine)
BS 549
Merlin 61
Walker:
Converted to Mk. IX on production line. To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 9 December 1942. Category AC damage in a flying accident on 21 December 1942, repaired on site. To Air Services for modifications on 11 April 1943, then to No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 16 April 1943. May have left this unit by 20 July 1943, also reported with 403 Squadron during Ramrod 258 Part I on 3 October 1943. Survived the war, struck off in 1947.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 315S 07-11-1942401S 09-12-1942FAAC 23-12-1942ros AST 11-04-1943mods 403S 16-04-1943341S 20-07-1943FAAC 09-10-1943313S 29-08-1944611S 08-10-1944303S 22-03-1945441S 05-04-194580OTU 23-07-1945SOC 09-06-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS550, Mk IX
s/n BS550
c/n 3624
VA (Supermarine)
BS 550
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 15-11-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 12MU 20-11-1942SS647 19-12-1942Gibraltar 06-02-1943NWAfrica 28-02-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS551, Mk IX
s/n BS551
c/n 3578
VA (Supermarine)
BS 551
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 CRD R-RH 01-11-1942M70 (RM9SM) install comparison trials with BS354 and BS543 see BS354 for details FACE 04-01-1943FH12.05
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS552, Mk IX
s/n BS552
c/n 3547
VA (Supermarine)
BS 552
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 9MU 27-10-1942AFDU Duxford 21-11-1942Westland 27-06-1945recat E SOC 17-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS553, Mk IX
s/n BS553
c/n 3623
VA (Supermarine)
BS 553
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-11-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 9MU 17-11-194247MU 29-11-1942SS647 19-12-1942Gibraltar 06-02-1943NWAfrica 28-02-1943Malta 01-07-194372S Sicily 01-08-194393S 4SAAF NWAfrica Crashed on take-off Gioia del Colle FAC3 18-10-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS554, Mk IX
s/n BS554
c/n 3575
VA (Supermarine)
BS 554
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-10-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 315S 06-11-1942AST 10-12-1942mods Shot down by Fw190s nr Caen 15-05-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS555, Mk IX
s/n BS555
c/n 3597
VA (Supermarine)
BS 555
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-11-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 9MU 17-11-194247MU 28-11-1942SS646 07-12-1942Gibraltar 17-12-1942Scottish Aviation 13-04-1943VA 06-11-1944mods 303S 16-11-1944310S 03-05-1945Armee de l'Air 27-07-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS556, Mk IX
s/n BS556
c/n 3598
VA (Supermarine)
BS 556
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-11-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 611S 10-11-1942AST 04-04-1943mods 315S 09-04-1943FTR ops 04-05-194380S 29-05-1944FAAC 04-07-1944274S 17-07-1944FAAC 11-08-1944ros sold scrap H.Bath 18-11-1949
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS557, Mk IX
s/n BS557
c/n 3630
VA (Supermarine)
BS 557
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-11-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 9MU 20-11-194247MU 29-11-1942SS646 07-12-1942Gibraltar Malta 08-02-1943683S 126S Missing on sweep over Sicily 25-06-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS558, Mk IX
s/n BS558
c/n 3635
VA (Supermarine)
BS 558
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-11-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 9MU 23-11-194247MU 29-11-1942SS647 19-12-1942Gibraltar 06-02-1943NWAfrica 28-02-1943Armee de l'Air 01-10-1943reported missing 12-11-1944RHAF 29-05-1949
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS559, Mk IX
s/n BS559
c/n 3599
VA (Supermarine)
BS 559
Merlin 61
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-11-1942R-RH Cv IX M61 9MU 17-11-194247MU 28-11-1942SS647 19-12-1942Gibraltar 06-02-1943249S 'T-W' FAAC 06-03-1943SOC 20-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS573, Mk. III
s/n BS573
BS 573
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS574, Mk. III
s/n BS574
BS 574
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS575, Mk. III
s/n BS575
BS 575
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS576, Mk. III
s/n BS576
BS 576
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS577, Mk. III
s/n BS577
BS 577
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS578, Mk. III
s/n BS578
BS 578
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS579, Mk. III
s/n BS579
BS 579
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS580, Mk. III
s/n BS580
BS 580
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS581, Mk. III
s/n BS581
BS 581
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS582, Mk. III
s/n BS582
BS 582
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS583, Mk. III
s/n BS583
BS 583
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS584, Mk. III
s/n BS584
BS 584
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS585, Mk. III
s/n BS585
BS 585
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS586, Mk. III
s/n BS586
BS 586
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS587, Mk. III
s/n BS587
BS 587
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS588, Mk. III
s/n BS588
BS 588
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS589, Mk. III
s/n BS589
BS 589
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS590, Mk. III
s/n BS590
BS 590
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS591, Mk. III
s/n BS591
BS 591
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS592, Mk. III
s/n BS592
BS 592
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS593, Mk. III
s/n BS593
BS 593
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS594, Mk. III
s/n BS594
BS 594
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS595, Mk. III
s/n BS595
BS 595
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS596, Mk. III
s/n BS596
BS 596
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS597, Mk. III
s/n BS597
BS 597
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS598, Mk. III
s/n BS598
BS 598
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS599, Mk. III
s/n BS599
BS 599
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS600, Mk. III
s/n BS600
BS 600
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS601, Mk. III
s/n BS601
BS 601
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS602, Mk. III
s/n BS602
BS 602
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS603, Mk. III
s/n BS603
BS 603
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS604, Mk. III
s/n BS604
BS 604
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS605, Mk. III
s/n BS605
BS 605
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS606, Mk. III
s/n BS606
BS 606
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS607, Mk. III
s/n BS607
BS 607
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS608, Mk. III
s/n BS608
BS 608
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS609, Mk. III
s/n BS609
BS 609
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS610, Mk. III
s/n BS610
BS 610
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS611, Mk. III
s/n BS611
BS 611
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS612, Mk. III
s/n BS612
BS 612
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS613, Mk. III
s/n BS613
BS 613
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS614, Mk. III
s/n BS614
BS 614
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS615, Mk. III
s/n BS615
BS 615
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS616, Mk. III
s/n BS616
BS 616
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS617, Mk. III
s/n BS617
BS 617
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS618, Mk. III
s/n BS618
BS 618
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS634, Mk. III
s/n BS634
BS 634
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS635, Mk. III
s/n BS635
BS 635
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS636, Mk. III
s/n BS636
BS 636
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS637, Mk. III
s/n BS637
BS 637
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS638, Mk. III
s/n BS638
BS 638
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS639, Mk. III
s/n BS639
BS 639
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS640, Mk. III
s/n BS640
BS 640
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS641, Mk. III
s/n BS641
BS 641
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS642, Mk. III
s/n BS642
BS 642
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS643, Mk. III
s/n BS643
BS 643
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS644, Mk. III
s/n BS644
BS 644
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS645, Mk. III
s/n BS645
BS 645
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS646, Mk. III
s/n BS646
BS 646
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS647, Mk. III
s/n BS647
BS 647
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS648, Mk. III
s/n BS648
BS 648
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS649, Mk. III
s/n BS649
BS 649
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS650, Mk. III
s/n BS650
BS 650
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS651, Mk. III
s/n BS651
BS 651
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS652, Mk. III
s/n BS652
BS 652
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS653, Mk. III
s/n BS653
BS 653
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS654, Mk. III
s/n BS654
BS 654
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS655, Mk. III
s/n BS655
BS 655
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS656, Mk. III
s/n BS656
BS 656
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS657, Mk. III
s/n BS657
BS 657
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS658, Mk. III
s/n BS658
BS 658
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS659, Mk. III
s/n BS659
BS 659
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS677, Mk. III
s/n BS677
BS 677
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS678, Mk. III
s/n BS678
BS 678
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS679, Mk. III
s/n BS679
BS 679
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS680, Mk. III
s/n BS680
BS 680
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS681, Mk. III
s/n BS681
BS 681
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS682, Mk. III
s/n BS682
BS 682
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS683, Mk. III
s/n BS683
BS 683
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS684, Mk. III
s/n BS684
BS 684
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS685, Mk. III
s/n BS685
BS 685
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS686, Mk. III
s/n BS686
BS 686
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS687, Mk. III
s/n BS687
BS 687
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS688, Mk. III
s/n BS688
BS 688
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS689, Mk. III
s/n BS689
BS 689
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS690, Mk. III
s/n BS690
BS 690
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS691, Mk. III
s/n BS691
BS 691
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS692, Mk. III
s/n BS692
BS 692
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS693, Mk. III
s/n BS693
BS 693
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS694, Mk. III
s/n BS694
BS 694
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS695, Mk. III
s/n BS695
BS 695
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS696, Mk. III
s/n BS696
BS 696
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS697, Mk. III
s/n BS697
BS 697
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS698, Mk. III
s/n BS698
BS 698
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS699, Mk. III
s/n BS699
BS 699
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS700, Mk. III
s/n BS700
BS 700
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS701, Mk. III
s/n BS701
BS 701
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS702, Mk. III
s/n BS702
BS 702
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS703, Mk. III
s/n BS703
BS 703
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS704, Mk. III
s/n BS704
BS 704
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS705, Mk. III
s/n BS705
BS 705
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS706, Mk. III
s/n BS706
BS 706
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS707, Mk. III
s/n BS707
BS 707
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS708, Mk. III
s/n BS708
BS 708
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS709, Mk. III
s/n BS709
BS 709
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS710, Mk. III
s/n BS710
BS 710
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS711, Mk. III
s/n BS711
BS 711
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS712, Mk. III
s/n BS712
BS 712
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS713, Mk. III
s/n BS713
BS 713
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS714, Mk. III
s/n BS714
BS 714
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS715, Mk. III
s/n BS715
BS 715
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS716, Mk. III
s/n BS716
BS 716
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS717, Mk. III
s/n BS717
BS 717
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS718, Mk. III
s/n BS718
BS 718
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS719, Mk. III
s/n BS719
BS 719
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS720, Mk. III
s/n BS720
BS 720
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS721, Mk. III
s/n BS721
BS 721
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS722, Mk. III
s/n BS722
BS 722
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS723, Mk. III
s/n BS723
BS 723
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire BS724, Mk. III
s/n BS724
BS 724
Walker:
Cancelled
last update: 2025-February-05