Spitfire (Total: 20,815, Canadian: 453, Group 453)
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 Mk Va serial W3109
s/n W3109
c/n 1639
VA (Supermarine)
W 3109
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, August 1941.
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FF 03-05-1941 39MU 08-05-1941 54S 08-06-1941 403S 04-08-1941 54S 25-08-1941 Missing believed shot down by Bf109 nr Mardyck while escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe 17-09-1941 SOC 03-10-1941 FH68.40
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3110
s/n W3110
c/n 1645
VA (Supermarine)
W 3110
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 08-05-1941 38MU 10-05-1941 64S 16-05-1941 603S 'XT-G' 16-05-1941 force-landed after combat with Bf109 over Channel 23-06-1941 HAL 26-06-1941 FAAC 30-12-1941 ros Scottish Aviation 18-03-1942 2USAAF 03-08-1942 ASTH 10-08-1943 61OTU 25-02-1944 SOC 12-10-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3111
s/n W3111
c/n 1646
VA (Supermarine)
W 3111
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 08-05-1941 38MU 11-05-1941 64S 16-05-1941 603S 16-05-1941 PRU Benson Shot down by Bf109 nr Boulogne 07-06-1941 Pilot Officer Burleigh killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3112
s/n W3112
c/n 1620
VA (Supermarine)
W 3112
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 411 (F) Squadron, RCAF. Shot down by Fw190 during Circus 116A, sweep over Bailleul, France. Pilot Officer J.W. Sills killed.
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FF 26-04-1941 5MU 28-04-1941 603S 27-06-1941 81S 14-01-1942 165S 'SK-X' 12-04-1942 167S 27-05-1942 GAL 24-06-1942 VASM 26-09-1942 fuel syst mods wing stiff HAL 13-10-1942 Cv PRXIII M32 AAEE 02-02-1944 M46 install for trials FAAC ros 20-03-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3113
s/n W3113
c/n 1663
VA (Supermarine)
W 3113
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 13-05-1941 33MU 16-05-1941 603S 27-06-1941 ASTH 08-08-1941 315S 24-11-1941 HAL 18-12-1941 ros 10-02-1942 165S 09-05-1942 FACB 12-05-1942 ros Royal Navy 04-09-1942 116S 31-10-1942 52OTU 06-09-1943 CE 03-10-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3114
s/n W3114
c/n 1667
VA (Supermarine)
W 3114
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 4 August 1941. Coded "KH*R". Flew on Ramrod mission on 12 August 1941.
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FF 14-05-1941 54S 29-06-1941 403S 04-08-1941 GAL 20-08-1941 332S 31-01-1942 164S 16-04-1942 602S 10-09-1942 82GrpUSAAF 08-11-1942 DeH 20-03-1943 61OTU 04-10-1943 SOC 30-09-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3115
s/n W3115
c/n 1676
VA (Supermarine)
W 3115
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 16-05-1941 8MU 18-05-1941 609S 28-05-1941 Damaged by Bf109 while escorting Stirlings to Lille and abandoned off Le Touquet SOC 08-07-1941 FH38.55
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3116
s/n W3116
c/n 1654
VA (Supermarine)
W 3116
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 10-05-1941 6MU 11-05-1941 609S 'PR-T' 27-05-1941 Damaged by Bf109 and abandoned off Gravelines 22-06-1941 SOC 01-07-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3117
s/n W3117
c/n 1675
VA (Supermarine)
W 3117
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 16-05-1941 8MU 18-05-1941 609S 28-05-1941 Scottish Aviation 13-08-1941 123S 27-12-1941 167S 16-04-1942 165S 27-05-1942 65S 23-09-1942 FACE 14-10-1942 Scottish Aviation 24-10-1942 340S 07-06-1943 eng fire and failure wheels up landing nr East Fortune CE 22-06-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3118
s/n W3118
c/n 1678
VA (Supermarine)
W 3118
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 17-05-1941 33MU 18-05-1941 603S 25-06-1941 452S 24-11-1941 332S 17-01-1942 164S 12-04-1942 FAAC 15-05-1942 ros Scottish Aviation 05-11-1942 288S 31-12-1942 1CRU 22-06-1943 61OTU 24-10-1943 FAAC 06-03-1944 ros
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3119
s/n W3119
c/n 1606
VA (Supermarine)
W 3119
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 22-04-1941 39MU 25-04-1941 to Wright Field Dayton Ohio USA as sample aircraft 07-1941 NACA Langley Field 12-1941 special eng manifold fitt
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3120
s/n W3120
c/n 1590
VA (Supermarine)
W 3120
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 19-04-1941 8MU 20-04-1941 74S 29-04-1941 damaged by Bf109 27-06-1941 92S Abandoned out of fuel nr Brighton Sussex 31-08-1941 SOC 09-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3121
s/n W3121
c/n 1608
VA (Supermarine)
W 3121
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 23-04-1941 39MU 24-04-1941 603S 22-06-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Choeques 24-06-1941 Pilot Officer McKelvie killed FH6.0
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3122
s/n W3122
c/n 1600
VA (Supermarine)
W 3122
Merlin 45
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FF 19-04-1941 8MU 22-04-1941 91S 29-04-1941 Heston 08-12-1941 ASTH 24-02-1942 111S 03-05-1942 Duxford 31-12-1942 to 3457M 10SoTT 12-01-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3123
s/n W3123
c/n 1612
VA (Supermarine)
W 3123
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 24-04-1941 5MU 26-04-1941 64S 16-05-1941 603S 16-05-1941 AST 24-06-1941 603S Collided with W3631 and crashed 5m S of Calais on sweep to St.Omer 21-10-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3124
s/n W3124
c/n 1602
VA (Supermarine)
W 3124
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 20-04-1941 8MU 22-04-1941 92S 29-04-1941 1CRU 18-05-1941 222S 24-08-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe believed shot down by Bf109s nr St.Omer 04-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3125
s/n W3125
c/n 1605
VA (Supermarine)
W 3125
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 22-04-1941 6MU 23-04-1941 91S 02-05-1941 CB ops 27-11-1941 ASTH 05-12-1941 332S 08-06-1942 PPSM mods 13-08-1942 Lost glycol on sweep and crashlanded nr St.Omer 01-11-1942 F/Lt T A Waerner evaded via Paris and Spain
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3126
s/n W3126
c/n 1604
VA (Supermarine)
W 3126
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 21-04-1941 23-04-1941 91S 'DL-M' 02-05-1941 Shot down by Bf109 off Dungeness 16-06-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3127
s/n W3127
c/n 1607
VA (Supermarine)
W 3127
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 27 September 1941.
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FF 22-04-1941 6MU 23-04-1941 74S 16-05-1941 AST 08-07-1941 401S 27-09-1941 Westland 05-11-1941 340S 'GW-X' 09-03-1942 CE ops 01-08-1942 AST 09-08-1942 Yeovilton 07-09-1942 Lee 20-11-1942 453S 'FU-U' 02-01-1943 222S 31-03-1943 167S 19-05-1943 3501SU 27-05-1943 Yeovilton 27-05-1943 Westland 19-01-1944 CGS 08-10-1944 SOC 11-12-1946 to 5537M
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3128
s/n W3128
c/n 1609
VA (Supermarine)
W 3128
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 30 June 1943. After leaving this squadron it survived a mid-air on 18 April 1944, and was sold to Portugal in 1947.
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FF 23-04-1941 6MU 24-04-1941 92S 11-05-1941 damaged by Bf109 14-06-1941 ASTE 23-08-1941 266S 22-11-1941 610S 'DW-B' 27-04-1942 93S 17-07-1942 Scottish Aviation 03-09-1942 ? VASM 30-03-1943 mods 416S 30-06-1943 130S 18-04-1944 air collision with AB208 off IoW CB 16-06-1944 AST 1696Flt 21-11-1944 Reid Sigrist refurb to Portugal 11-09-1947
last update: 2025-February-051947-September-11 Sold as Surplus Sold to Portugal 2019-08-20
Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3129
s/n W3129
c/n 1613
VA (Supermarine)
W 3129
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 20 August 1943. Category AC damage from a flying accident on 15 April 1944, repaired on site. Still with this unit on 13 May 1944. Hsad left this unit before it crashed on 8 August 1944.
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FF 25-04-1941 8MU 26-04-1941 91S 06-05-1941 ros 13-11-1941 DeH 01-05-1942 FAAC 05-09-1942 5USAAF 08-09-1942 VASM 28-02-1943 fuel syst mods 402S 20-08-1943 FAAC 15-04-1944 ros 402S 13-05-1944 527S 15-07-1944 Control lost in cloud dived into sea out 2m off Frinton CE 08-08-1944
last update: 2025-February-051944-August-08 Struck off Strength Struck off, after crashing while with No. 527 Squadron. 2019-08-20
Spitfire Mk Va serial W3130
s/n W3130
c/n 1614
VA (Supermarine)
W 3130
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 25-04-1941 5MU 27-04-1941 64S 16-05-1941 603S 16-05-1941 52OTU 31-12-1941 81GCF 01-06-1942 116S 14-10-1942 238S 01-01-1943 Engine cut in circuit crash landed Goxhill FAAC 14-05-1943 recat E SOC 18-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3131
s/n W3131
c/n 1619
VA (Supermarine)
W 3131
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;401
Walker:
Used by No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 27 September 1941. Shot down by Bf 109 of JG26, off Boulogne on 12 February 1942. Pilot Sgt. J.A.O. Levesque taken prisoner.
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FF 25-04-1941 8MU 28-04-1941 91S 08-05-1941 AST 20-05-1941 401S 27-09-1941 Missing presumed shot down by fighters during attack on German battlefleet off Belgian coast 12-02-1942
last update: 2025-February-05
Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3132
s/n W3132
c/n 1615
VA (Supermarine)
W 3132
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 26-04-1941 8MU 26-04-1941 91S 08-05-1941 Missing from shipping recce off Ostend 08-02-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3133
s/n W3133
c/n 1616
VA (Supermarine)
W 3133
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 26-04-1941 8MU 26-04-1941 91S 09-05-1941 MM 10-07-1941 ASTH 09-04-1942 65S 28-06-1942 2USAAF 22-08-1942 332S 08-11-1942 FACB recat E 19-02-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3134
s/n W3134
c/n 1622
VA (Supermarine)
W 3134
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 28-04-1941 8MU 30-04-1941 AAEE 18-06-1941 brief perf trials (371mph at 20100ft time to 20000ft 6.4min) 02-09-1941 low fuel pressure tests with P8781 fuel heated before takeoff. RAE 24-11-1941 exhaust flame dampers on stubs with intensifier tubes. trials with and without snow guard. inertia weight on elev control syst at AAEE Mk V with Univ wing had to have standard wt to cater for change of armament 08-1942 comparison tests with M45 and M46. Latter better at height. Perf trials at varying air temps. Cool trials over six months. VASM 29-08-1943 mods crashed during test program 24-11-1943 AST 78MU 06-06-1945 SOC dbr 28-06-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3135
s/n W3135
c/n 1624
VA (Supermarine)
W 3135
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 29-04-1941 8MU 04-05-1941 91S 10-12-1941 HAL 10-04-1942 ASTH 16-04-1942 VASM 21-10-1942 fuel syst mods wing stiff HAL 29-12-1942 Cv PRXIII M32 Benson 05-04-1943 541S 25-04-1943 HAL 14-09-1943 39MU nea 25-01-1945 SOC 26-02-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3136
s/n W3136
c/n 1623
VA (Supermarine)
W 3136
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 29-04-1941 5MU 04-05-1941 Reid Sigrist Northolt 17-06-1941 603S 04-07-1941 MM 10-07-1941 54S 10-10-1941 124S 17-11-1941 81S 10-01-1942 154S 12-04-1942 167S 27-05-1942 RNDA 06-09-1942 AST 21-09-1942 801S 09-1942 884S 10-1942 hook fitt RNAS Lee on Solent on loan as hook Spit 20-11-1942 Yeovilton 27-05-1943 Westland 06-06-1943 897S Unicorn (Vb) floated over wires into barrier Cat Z 04-08-1943 (Squadron Leader WH Neilson OK)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3137
s/n W3137
c/n 1631
VA (Supermarine)
W 3137
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 02-05-1941 8MU 04-05-1941 91S 10-05-1941 CB ops 07-07-1941 92S 19-09-1941 Missing from sweep to Le Treport 02-10-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3138
s/n W3138
c/n 1628
VA (Supermarine)
W 3138
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 30-04-1941 5MU 04-05-1941 603S 27-06-1941 damaged by Bf109 30-06-1941 1CRU 04-10-1941 164S 29-04-1942 602S 10-09-1942 82GrpUSAAF 11-11-1942 ros 17-11-1942 CAC ops 22-10-1943 ros Miles Aircraft 03-08-1944 SOC 17-08-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3168
s/n W3168
c/n 1629
VA (Supermarine)
W 3168
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 30-04-1941 8MU 04-05-1941 74S 18-05-1941 92S 07-08-1941 ros 22-10-1941 ? 72S 24-10-1941 133S 15-06-1942 65S 23-09-1942 FACB 22-12-1942 LMS 66S 07-10-1943 340S 'GW-R' 15-11-1943 239S 16-02-1944 68S 22-03-1944 26S 02-05-1944 1TEU 17-08-1944 ASTH 07-12-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3169
s/n W3169
c/n 1625
VA (Supermarine)
W 3169
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 29-04-1941 5MU 04-05-1941 Northolt 28-05-1941 54S 07-06-1941 force-landed Manston 19-06-1941 Dived into sea off Cap Gris Nez while escorting Stirlings to Mazingarbe 09-07-1941 FH48.10 PO NG Baxter killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3170
s/n W3170
c/n 1635
V
VA (Supermarine)
W 3170
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, November 1941 to 1943. Coded "KH*V". Not confirmed by RAF movement card. Overturned during downwind landing at Marttlesham Heath on 5 april 1942, probably with 403 Squadron at that time.
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FF 01-05-1941 Henley 9MU 05-05-1941 74S 16-05-1941 72S 27-07-1941 Overturned on down-wind landing Martlesham Heath 05-04-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3171
s/n W3171
c/n 1636
VA (Supermarine)
W 3171
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 02-05-1941 9MU 06-05-1941 AST 16-07-1941 71S 30-10-1941 Ran out of fuel and crashed nr Manston CB 25-04-1942 CBAF CE 04-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3172
s/n W3172
c/n 1637
VA (Supermarine)
W 3172
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 02-05-1941 9MU 06-05-1941 74S 16-05-1941 Ditched during sweep to Albert/Meault 07-07-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3173
s/n W3173
c/n 1638
VA (Supermarine)
W 3173
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 03-05-1941 9MU 04-05-1941 609S 31-05-1941 AFDU 31-10-1941 DeH 20-03-1943 VASM 28-07-1943 mods 3501SU 28-11-1943 129S 04-02-1944 53OTU 05-09-1944 engine failed after takeoff overturned landing Kirton-in-Lindsey CE 27-09-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3174
s/n W3174
c/n 1649
VA (Supermarine)
W 3174
Merlin 45
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FF 09-05-1941 6MU 10-05-1941 74S 16-05-1941 crashed Hawkinge after combat Bf109 16-06-1941 AST 24-06-1941 SOC 22-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3175
s/n W3175
c/n 1601
VA (Supermarine)
W 3175
Merlin 45
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FF 12-04-1941 6MU 24-04-1941 91S 04-05-1941 ros Damaged by Fw190 off Cap Gris Nez 24-02-1942 ASTE recat E 20-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3176
s/n W3176
c/n 1621
VA (Supermarine)
W 3176
Merlin 45
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FF 26-04-1941 6MU 11-05-1941 74S 18-05-1941 Missing escorting Stirlings to Lille 06-07-1941 Flight Sergeant L R Carter killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3177
s/n W3177
c/n 1652
VA (Supermarine)
W 3177
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 16 April 1942.
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FF 09-05-1941 6MU 11-05-1941 74S 23-05-1941 CB ops 21-06-1941 GAL 313S 21-10-1941 412S 16-04-1942 u/c jammed belly landed West Malling 24-04-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3178
s/n W3178
c/n 1651
VA (Supermarine)
W 3178
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;401
Walker:
Used by No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 27 September 1941, on operations. Coded "YO*Q". Lost on Roadstead mssion on 11 February 1942, shot down by flak off Dunkirk. Pilot F/Sgt. W. D. Hagyard killed.
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FF 09-05-1941 6MU 10-05-1941 74S 23-05-1941 AST 08-07-1941 401S 27-09-1941 Shot down by flak attacking shipping in Channel 11-02-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3179
s/n W3179
c/n 1668
VA (Supermarine)
W 3179
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 14-05-1941 8MU 23-05-1941 609S 28-05-1941 shot down by Bf109 22-06-1941 1CRU 92S 02-09-1941 Missing from sweep to Abbeville 20-09-1941 Flight Sergeant G P Hickman PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3180
s/n W3180
c/n 1677
VA (Supermarine)
W 3180
Merlin 45M
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FF 17-05-1941 9MU 26-05-1941 ? 609S 31-08-1941 1CRU 07-09-1941 VASM 22-03-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 131S 08-07-1943 310S 24-09-1943 FACB 07-03-1944 DeH Reid Sigrist refurb to Portugal 17-07-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3181
s/n W3181
c/n 1681
VA (Supermarine)
W 3181
Merlin 45
Known Units:
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FF 19-05-1941 6MU 27-05-1941 ? 92S 11-06-1941 CAC ops 28-06-1941 72S 09-07-1941 Ditched in English Channel while escorting Stirlings to Lille 19-07-1941 Flight Sergeant R F Lewis killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3182
s/n W3182
c/n 1685
VA (Supermarine)
W 3182
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;92
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FF 20-05-1941 6MU 27-05-1941 ? 92S 11-06-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe 04-09-1941 Pilot Officer J E T Asselin PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3183
s/n W3183
c/n 1696
P
VA (Supermarine)
W 3183
Merlin 45
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FF 23-05-1941 9MU 25-05-1941 92S 26-06-1941 Missing escorting Stirlings to Lille 11-07-1941 Pilot Officer J Dougall PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Escort Lille France 1941-07-11 to 1941-07-11
92 (F) Sqn (RAF) RAF Biggin Hill
Circus
92 East India Squadron (Aut pugna aut morere), RAF Biggin Hill. Spitfire Mk Vb W 3183 QJ-P, flown by Flight Lieutenant Donald Charles Dougall DFC (RCAF) escorting Stirling bombers to bomb targets in Lille, France as part of Circus 44. His aircraft was shot down near Lille, cause of loss undetermined. Severely wounded, Flight Lieutenant Dougall lost a leg but survived to become a Prisoner of War and was eventually sent to Stalag Luft 3. Flight Lieutenant Dougall was later one of 11 RCAF prisoners who were part of an early Exchange/ Repatriation of sick and injured Allied and German PoWs that took place in October 1943
Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database
Spitfire pilots and aircraft database - Pilot Officer Donald DOUGALL RCAF
Spitfire Mk Va serial W3184
s/n W3184
c/n 1712
VA (Supermarine)
W 3184
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-05-1941 38MU 30-05-1941 603S 26-06-1941 Dived into sea 10m off Ramsgate while escorting Blenheims over France 24-07-1941 Flight Sergeant G W Tabor killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3185
s/n W3185
c/n 1653
VA (Supermarine)
W 3185
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-05-1941 39MU 11-05-1941 145S 30-06-1941 AST 22-07-1941 145S 22-07-1941 41S 28-07-1941 616S 'D-B' 28-07-1941 AST 29-07-1941 air collision with Bf109 over France W/Cdr Bader PoW 09-08-1941
last update: 2025-February-05
Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3186
s/n W3186
c/n 1658
VA (Supermarine)
W 3186
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-05-1941 6MU 13-05-1941 74S 23-05-1941 Shot down by Bf109 in sea during patrol over Strait of Dover 09-06-1941 FH7.30 Pilot Officer W K Burgon killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3187
s/n W3187
c/n 1657
VA (Supermarine)
W 3187
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-05-1941 6MU 13-05-1941 609S 27-05-1941 Damaged by flak from E-boats and abandoned SE of Dover 31-07-1941 FH87.50
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF Mk Vb serial W3207
s/n W3207
c/n 1659
VA (Supermarine)
W 3207
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Abbotts Haugh Falkirk Bairn". Used by No. 413 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 29 June 1943.
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FF 12-05-1941 6MU 13-05-1941 609S 27-05-1941 MM 27-06-1941 222S 16-09-1941 FAAC 15-07-1942 AST VASM 21-10-1942 fuel syst mods M55M install 317S 24-01-1943 412S 29-06-1943 [126Airfield 10-08-1943 ] 133S 17-02-1944 132S 07-03-1944 504S 15-03-1944 310S 15-07-1944 61OTU 28-06-1945 hit truck taxy Keevil tip onto nose AC 20-09-1945 recat E 23-10-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk. Vb serial W3207
s/n W3207
c/n 1772
W 3207
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Lincoln Imp". Used by No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 10 March 1943. Left this unit by 23 March 1943.
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3208
s/n W3208
c/n 1661
VA (Supermarine)
W 3208
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-05-1941 8MU 14-05-1941 74S 18-05-1941 Circus 35 Shot down over France 06-07-1941 Pilot Officer W M Skinner DFM PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF Mk Vb serial W3209
s/n W3209
c/n 1660
VA (Supermarine)
W 3209
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Edmonton-London-Alberta". Used by No. 411 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 20 August 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-05-1941 6MU 13-05-1941 609S 27-05-1941 AST 22-06-1941 452S 20-08-1941 ros 01-11-1941 302S 03-11-1941 FACB 09-01-1942 411S 20-08-1942 242S 25-09-1942 133S 29-09-1942 336S 01-10-1942 AST 25-03-1943 VASM 30-06-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff S Type pt MkIII IFF bomb carrier 130S 25-01-1944 222S 16-02-1944 322S 17-03-1944 350S 11-05-1944 CB ops 12-06-1944 1AGS 21-02-1945 SOC 17-09-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3210
s/n W3210
c/n 1662
VA (Supermarine)
W 3210
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-05-1941 8MU 14-05-1941 74S 18-05-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Hazebrouck 27-06-1941 Pilot Officer W J Sandman PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3211
s/n W3211
c/n 1664
VA (Supermarine)
W 3211
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-05-1941 8MU 16-05-1941 609S 'PR-H' 28-05-1941 Shot down by Bf109 off Dover 18-06-1941 SOC 24-06-1941 FH28.35 Pilot Officer S J Hill killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3212
s/n W3212
c/n 1665
VA (Supermarine)
W 3212
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Ghewdex". Used by No. 417 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 6 February 1942. Category B damage in flying accident on 10 February 1942, repaired on site. Later converted to Seafire, re-registered as NX883.
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FF 14-05-1941 8MU 16-05-1941 74S 18-05-1941 AST 10-08-1941 92S 17-09-1941 417S 06-02-1942 FACB 10-02-1942 ros ASTH 17-02-1943 Cv Seafire Ib reserialled NX883
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3213
s/n W3213
c/n 1666
VA (Supermarine)
W 3213
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-05-1941 33MU 16-05-1941 603S 25-06-1941 Scottish Aviation 19-08-1941 2USAAF 07-08-1942 FACB 22-11-1942 61OTU 18-04-1944 FAAC 24-06-1944 ros
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3214
s/n W3214
c/n 1669
VA (Supermarine)
W 3214
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-05-1941 24MU 16-05-1941 ? ASTH 28-06-1941 350S 22-03-1942 FAAC 01-06-1942 Missing presumed ditched in bad weather on interception off Eastbourne 10-08-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3215
s/n W3215
c/n 1670
VA (Supermarine)
W 3215
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;411
Walker:
Named "Marksman". Served with No. 411 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 2 October 1941, coded "DB*C". Lost on Circus mission to Abbeville on 24 March 1942. Claimed by JG26. Pilot Pilot Officer J.W. Sills killed.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 15-05-1941 6MU 16-05-1941 609S 01-06-1941 AST 01-07-1941 411S 02-10-1941 Damaged by fighter while escorting Blenheims to Comines presumed ditched 24-03-1942 Pilot Officer J W Sills killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3216
s/n W3216
c/n 1671
VA (Supermarine)
W 3216
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-05-1941 33MU 17-05-1941 54S 26-06-1941 Crashed nr Hawkinge returning from sweep 27-07-1941 SOC FH34.30 Flight Sergeant F M Laing killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3226
s/n W3226
c/n 1705
VA (Supermarine)
W 3226
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Some confusion in records, may have served with No. 421, 412 and 416 Squadrons, RCAF. May have been lost on 26 September 1943, while with No. 416 Sdn.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-05-1941 9MU 29-05-1941 611S 29-06-1941 AST 18-07-1941 603S 11-08-1941 FAAC 03-03-1942 ros 332S 17-04-1942 133S 03-05-1942 167S 19-05-1942 165S 27-05-1942 Scottish Aviation 13-07-1942 421S 02-10-1942 412S 03-02-1943 602S 19-04-1943 416S 26-09-1943 engine failed aircraft abandoned over Channel 22-10-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3227
s/n W3227
c/n 1713
VA (Supermarine)
W 3227
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-05-1941 9MU 28-05-1941 611S 29-06-1941 ros 05-08-1941 611S 20-08-1941 Shot down by Bf109s nr Hardelot 21-10-1941 SOC 22-10-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3228
s/n W3228
c/n 1721
VA (Supermarine)
W 3228
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-05-1941 R-RH 27-06-1941 Merlin RM3S (MXII) and RM6S (M56) trials and gen dev of M45 M46 M50 and M55 AAEE 16-09-1941 initial trials R-RH 20-10-1941 AAEE 17-11-1941 aero hand trials with R-R diaphragm type carburetter. R-RH 15-12-1941 RM5S (M50) install AAEE 10-01-1942 trials with mods to diaphragm carburetter M45M (M50 Special) with cropped supercharger impeller (9.5in) trials with same. Eng then transfer to AB167 (Vc) further similar trials. R-RH for new radiator AST 21-07-1943 130S 06-07-1944 53OTU 10-08-1944 VA 04-09-1944 ? 527S 17-05-1945 to 5939M 5SoTT 18-04-1946 SOC 10-02-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3229
s/n W3229
c/n 1729
VA (Supermarine)
W 3229
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-05-1941 9MU 07-06-1941 72S 08-07-1941 HAL 07-08-1941 306S 03-09-1941 303S 06-10-1941 CAC 17-02-1942 AST 4USAAF 12-08-1942 RNDA 23-02-1944 Cunliffe-Owen 30-04-1944 808S 06-1944 to 07-1944 RNAS Yeovilton 22-07-1944 761S Henstridge 06-1944 to 12-1944 returned to RAF 12-06-1945 to 5572M 1PATP 11-1945 Armee de l'Air 16-03-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3230
s/n W3230
c/n 1724
VA (Supermarine)
W 3230
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-05-1941 9MU 01-06-1941 611S 28-06-1941 MM 07-07-1941 308S 11-09-1941 HAL 03-10-1941 316S 13-12-1941 FAAC 15-01-1942 ros 129S 19-08-1942 602S 29-11-1942 66S 19-02-1943 234S 19-04-1943 312S 29-06-1943 RNDA 23-02-1944 loan Admiralty as trainer 759S Yeovilton 09-1944 to 10-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3231
s/n W3231
c/n 1736
VA (Supermarine)
W 3231
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-06-1941 6MU 07-06-1941 91S 08-07-1941 CB ops 17-12-1941 ASTH 331S 'FN-C' 23-07-1942 Scottish Aviation 25-10-1942 308S 20-05-1943 234S 'AZ-X' 22-08-1943 VASM 25-01-1944 fuel syst mods DeH 03-06-1944 1687Flt 05-12-1944 Landed with u/c unlocked and swung Hemswell FAAC 19-07-1945 recat E SOC 27-07-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3232
s/n W3232
c/n 1720
VA (Supermarine)
W 3232
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-05-1941 6MU 02-06-1941 74S 24-06-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Hazebrouck 03-07-1941 Flight Sergeant Cochrane missing
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3233
s/n W3233
c/n 1728
VA (Supermarine)
W 3233
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;603
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-05-1941 6MU 02-06-1941 92S 603S 07-08-1941 Missing presumed shot down by Bf109 while escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe 27-09-1941 Flight Sergeant W J Archibald killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3234
s/n W3234
c/n 1743
VA (Supermarine)
W 3234
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-06-1941 8MU 09-06-1941 92S 26-06-1941 1CRU 12-07-1941 123S 20-02-1942 167S 10-04-1942 165S 27-05-1942 FACB 05-08-1942 Scottish Aviation VASM 14-05-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff target tow hook 315S 02-07-1943 611S 11-07-1943 CAC ops 02-10-1943 AST 64S 12-10-1943 65S 03-05-1944 278S 13-10-1944 SOC 27-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3235
s/n W3235
c/n 1749
VA (Supermarine)
W 3235
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-06-1941 6MU 12-06-1941 91S 29-06-1941 FACB 18-03-1942 AST 341S 12-03-1943 RNDA 16-01-1944 808S 03-1944 to 04-1944 761S RNAS Henstridge as trainer 11-03-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3236
s/n W3236
c/n 1672
VA (Supermarine)
W 3236
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-05-1941 6MU 17-05-1941 609S 01-06-1941 CAC ops 17-09-1941 ros AST 29-10-1941 310S 25-02-1942 130S 28-02-1942 ASTE 30-04-1942 307USAAF 22-08-1942 350S 12-09-1942 Hit trees in bad visibility Godstone Surrey CE 21-09-1942 SOC 27-09-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk III serial W3237
s/n W3237
c/n 1735
VA (Supermarine)
W 3237
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-06-1941 EA Cv III second prototype 08-1941 MXX strengthened fus Rotol constant-speed anti-spin parachute AAEE trials EA extended wing tips four position flaps for deck landing Worthy Down 15-05-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3238
s/n W3238
c/n 1673
VA (Supermarine)
W 3238
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-05-1941 6MU 17-05-1941 609S 'PR-B' 27-05-1941 RAE 07-1941 FACB 16-09-1941 92S 08-10-1941 ros Crashed in forced landing nr Copwick FACE 09-11-1941 SOC 01-12-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3239
s/n W3239
c/n 1674
VA (Supermarine)
W 3239
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-05-1941 6MU 17-05-1941 609S 'PR-N' 27-05-1941 Damaged by Bf109 engine cut and ditched off Goodwin Sands while escorting Stirlings to Lille 08-07-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3240
s/n W3240
c/n 1679
VA (Supermarine)
W 3240
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-05-1941 609S 28-05-1941 ASTH 12-08-1941 121S 04-11-1941 Dived into ground in cloud Toddenham nr Ipswich 08-01-1942 SOC 13-01-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3241
s/n W3241
c/n 1680
VA (Supermarine)
W 3241
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-05-1941 8MU 21-05-1941 609S 28-05-1941 Damaged by Bf109 and abandoned over Channel rescued by HSL123 19-08-1941 FH15.50
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3242
s/n W3242
c/n 1683
VA (Supermarine)
W 3242
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-05-1941 8MU 22-05-1941 611S 22-06-1941 C1 by AA fire 30-06-1941 ASTH 12-09-1941 603S gun fail engine failed convoy patrol aircraft abandoned into sea nr Harwich 09-12-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3243
s/n W3243
c/n 1684
VA (Supermarine)
W 3243
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;167
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-05-1941 8MU 26-05-1941 611S 22-06-1941 AST 28-07-1941 ros 03-08-1941 315S 12-12-1941 GAL 21-02-1942 167S 17-07-1942 Crashed during low aerobatics Castletown CE 19-09-1942 SOC 25-09-1942
last update: 2025-February-05
Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3244
s/n W3244
c/n 1686
VA (Supermarine)
W 3244
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-05-1941 5MU 03-10-1941 122S 16-11-1941 242S 23-04-1942 Flew into hill in cloud nr Gifford E.Lothian 05-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3245
s/n W3245
c/n 1722
VA (Supermarine)
W 3245
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-05-1941 8MU 06-06-1941 92S 24-06-1941 CB ops 03-08-1941 ros 222S 17-10-1941 FACB 24-03-1942 HAL 4USAAF 04-08-1942 332S 08-11-1942 416S 10-03-1943 41S 23-03-1943 ros 20-04-1943 501S 19-07-1943 485S 14-11-1943 Scottish Aviation 04-03-1944 1695Flt 15-10-1944 ASTH 04-09-1945 SOC
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3246
s/n W3246
c/n 1689
VA (Supermarine)
W 3246
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-05-1941 9MU 24-05-1941 611S 22-06-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Lens 23-07-1941 Flying Officer Sutton killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3247
s/n W3247
c/n 1690
VA (Supermarine)
W 3247
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-05-1941 9MU 24-05-1941 611S 22-06-1941 Shot down by Bf109s off Gravelines 26-08-1941 Flight Sergeant Gray missing
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3248
s/n W3248
c/n 1691
VA (Supermarine)
W 3248
Merlin 46
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-05-1941 9MU 24-05-1941 611S 22-06-1941 AST 06-07-1941 64S 14-11-1941 MM 09-01-1942 mods First clipped wing Spit re-designate LFVb RAE 14-04-1942 accident invest with BL770 06-1942 external mirror drag trials 08-1942 G-suffix serial lifted 30-09-1942 after force-landing on 19-09-1942 cockpit sight parameter trials and clear view windscreen 12-1942 ailerons trials 01-1943 HAL 09-1943 to 10-1943 cockpit misting trials at alt. RAE 02-1944 trials with new type cockpit panels. comparison trials with Spider Crab (Vampire proto) latter flown by John Cunningham Michael Daunt 'Sailor' Malancha ETPS 10-05-1944 ? Metro CommSqn 03-09-1944 refurb to Portugal 17-10-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3249
s/n W3249
c/n 1698
VA (Supermarine)
W 3249
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Baltic Exchange III". Used by No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 10 May 1944.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 23-05-1941 9MU 26-06-1941 CB ops 17-07-1941 AST 312S 10-12-1941 222S 05-09-1942 602S 23-12-1942 129S 22-01-1943 66S 19-02-1943 312S 29-06-1943 12GCF 05-10-1943 402S 10-05-1944 HAL 03-06-1944 287S 02-12-1944 FAAC 05-02-1945 ros Marshalls Cambridge 15-11-1945 SOC
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3250
s/n W3250
c/n 1699
VA (Supermarine)
W 3250
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Central Provinces and Berar II". Used by No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 30 May 1944. Category AC damage on operations, 8 June 1944.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 23-05-1941 9MU 25-05-1941 91S 26-05-1941 ? Westland 27-08-1941 74S 28-11-1941 1CRU 13-10-1942 232S 'EF-K' 222S 'ZD-V' 03-04-1943 167S 24-05-1943 303S 25-03-1944 402S 30-05-1944 CAC ops 08-06-1944 527S 17-05-1945 to 5938M 12SoTT 27-04-1946 RNethAF 25-11-1946
last update: 2025-February-051946-November-25 Ownership Transferred Transferred to R. Netherlands AF 2019-08-20
Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3251
s/n W3251
c/n 1700
VA (Supermarine)
W 3251
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-05-1941 6MU 25-05-1941 74S 12-06-1941 Shot down by Bf109 nr Calais while escorting Blenheims to Choques 17-06-1941 FH11.10
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3252
s/n W3252
c/n 1701
VA (Supermarine)
W 3252
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-05-1941 6MU 25-05-1941 74S Shot down by Bf109 on sweep to Hardelot 27-06-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3253
s/n W3253
c/n 1703
VA (Supermarine)
W 3253
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-05-1941 9MU 25-05-1941 92S 26-06-1941 ? AST 21-07-1941 222S 16-09-1941 1CRU 08-12-1941 VASM 24-10-1942 fuel syst mods 602S 09-01-1943 129S 19-02-1943 234S 12-05-1943 312S 29-06-1943 317S 04-10-1943 52OTU 05-10-1943 VASM 20-01-1944 mods FLS Millfield 02-02-1944 AST 10-05-1944 AGS 02-11-1944 SOC 29-08-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3254
s/n W3254
c/n 1704
VA (Supermarine)
W 3254
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-05-1941 9MU 25-05-1941 609S Shot down by Bf109 nr Campagne-des-Hesdin on sweep 09-08-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3255
s/n W3255
c/n 1706
VA (Supermarine)
W 3255
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-05-1941 9MU 01-06-1941 611S 30-06-1941 Crashlanded in fiield nr Coltishall 10-07-1941 SOC 21-07-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3256
s/n W3256
c/n 1707
VA (Supermarine)
W 3256
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-05-1941 9MU 28-05-1941 72S 08-07-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe 23-07-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3257
s/n W3257
c/n 1708
VA (Supermarine)
W 3257
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-05-1941 9MU 28-05-1941 611S 08-07-1941 Missing from ground attack mission to Hardelot 03-08-1941 F/Lt E S Lock DSO DFC killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3258
s/n W3258
c/n 1709
VA (Supermarine)
W 3258
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-05-1941 9MU 30-05-1941 74S 30-06-1941 Missing from escorting Blenheims to Abbeville 04-07-1941 Flight Sergeant W G Henderson killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3259
s/n W3259
c/n 1710
VA (Supermarine)
W 3259
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;74
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-05-1941 9MU 28-05-1941 74S 30-06-1941 Missing nr St.Omer while escorting Blenheims to Lille 02-07-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3260
s/n W3260
c/n 1716
VA (Supermarine)
W 3260
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-05-1941 9MU 16-06-1941 611S 30-06-1941 SOC 19-07-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3261
s/n W3261
c/n 1717
VA (Supermarine)
W 3261
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-05-1941 9MU 01-06-1941 611S 29-06-1941 GAL 06-08-1941 122S 15-11-1941 FACB 20-02-1942 242S 26-02-1942 FAAC 07-07-1942 ros 222S 30-08-1942 FACB 02-11-1942 Scottish Aviation 350S 03-04-1943 FAAC 03-09-1943 ros VASM 22-12-1943 fuel syst mods 1652CU 03-05-1944 26S 26-04-1945 AST 03-06-1945 SOC 29-11-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF LR Mk Vb serial W3262
s/n W3262
c/n 1718
VA (Supermarine)
W 3262
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-05-1941 6MU 02-06-1941 91S 08-07-1941 CAC ops 11-07-1941 ros GAL 06-02-1942 307S 14-07-1942 350S 12-09-1942 AST 20-10-1942 VASM 13-03-1943 mods 09-10-1943 303S 06-03-1944 Scottish Aviation 19-07-1944 17FTS 12-01-1945 CE 05-07-1946 SOC
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3263
s/n W3263
c/n 1719
VA (Supermarine)
W 3263
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-05-1941 6MU 02-06-1941 74S 22-06-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Lille 02-07-1941 Pilot Officer S Z Krol PoW was part of the 'Great Escape'
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3264
s/n W3264
c/n 1730
VA (Supermarine)
W 3264
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-05-1941 6MU 02-06-1941 92S 23-06-1941 CB ops 25-06-1941 ASTE 02-07-1941 5USAAF 06-08-1942 332 Service Sqdn 03-12-1942 345S 26-06-1944 Taxied into concrete cover of gunpit and u/c collapsed Shoreham CE 30-07-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3265
s/n W3265
c/n 1725
VA (Supermarine)
W 3265
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-05-1941 6MU 02-06-1941 ? 92S 17-06-1941 Abandoned off French coast on sweep 08-07-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3305
s/n W3305
c/n 1727
VA (Supermarine)
W 3305
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-05-1941 6MU 06-06-1941 91S 19-06-1941 FACB 17-07-1941 AST 74S 30-11-1941 FACB 29-03-1942 Shorts Harland VASM 02-06-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff ASTE 24-08-1943 186S 08-02-1944 611S 18-05-1944 350S 17-06-1944 57OTU 23-07-1944 GACB 17-03-1945 recat E SOC 27-03-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3306
s/n W3306
c/n 1748
VA (Supermarine)
W 3306
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-06-1941 6MU 11-06-1941 74S 19-06-1941 GAL 29-06-1941 316S 16-11-1941 ros 17-11-1941 306S 12-12-1941 312S 29-12-1941 Tyre burst on landing swung and u/c collapsed Warmwell FACB 04-05-1942 Westland 12-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3307
s/n W3307
c/n 1731
VA (Supermarine)
W 3307
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-06-1941 8MU 06-06-1941 609S 24-06-1941 Shot down by Bf109 while escorting Stirlings to Lille 21-07-1941 Flight Sergeant K W Bramble killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3308
s/n W3308
c/n 1732
VA (Supermarine)
W 3308
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-06-1941 6MU 06-06-1941 92S 17-06-1941 MM 01-07-1941 266S 13-09-1941 Missing from convoy patrol off Norfolk coast 01-01-1942 F/Lt A J F Allen-White killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3309
s/n W3309
c/n 1733
VA (Supermarine)
W 3309
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-06-1941 6MU 07-06-1941 611S 25-06-1941 AST 15-07-1941 FAAC 28-08-1941 307S 16-09-1941 VASM 09-03-1942 fuel syst mods 312S 25-05-1942 234S 04-07-1942 504S 30-06-1943 ? 313S 22-09-1943 118S 02-06-1944 CAC 11-08-1944 Scottish Aviation 313S 22-09-1944 118S 02-06-1944 41OTU 18-03-1945 Marshalls Cambridge 06-12-1945 SOC 04-02-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF LR Mk Vb serial W3310
s/n W3310
c/n 1970
VA (Supermarine)
W 3310
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-06-1941 6MU AST 10-06-1941 111S 24-08-1941 RAE 14-09-1942 pt removed aircraft waxed and polished for trials speed gain of 12.5mph 132S 18-02-1944 504S 15-03-1944 345S 31-05-1944 FAAC 03-08-1944 ros 245S 26-08-1944 57OTU 15-09-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3311
s/n W3311
c/n 1737
VA (Supermarine)
W 3311
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-06-1941 611S Shot down by Bf109s nr Lille while escorting Stirlings 06-07-1941 Flight Sergeant Smith pow
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3312
s/n W3312
c/n 1740
VA (Supermarine)
W 3312
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-06-1941 6MU 08-06-1941 92S 'QJ-J' 20-06-1941 609S 26-09-1941 124S 13-11-1941 CA ops 27-04-1942 65S 02-05-1942 Engine lost power on sweep abandoned 5m W of Deal Kent 03-09-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3313
s/n W3313
c/n 1741
VA (Supermarine)
W 3313
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Nike". Used by No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 5 December 1942. To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 12 December 1942. With No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 23 March 1943. Left this unit by June 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-06-1941 8MU 08-06-1941 609S 29-06-1941 1CRU 39MU Starveall Farm dispersal 23-08-1941 266S 13-09-1941 FAAC 26-03-1942 ros 154S 28-03-1942 FAAC 26-05-1942 Scottish Aviation 308S 27-06-1942 401S 05-12-1942 402S 12-12-1942 416S 23-03-1943 501S 28-06-1943 DeH 26-10-1943 26S 02-04-1944 ASTH 06-09-1944 53OTU SOC 05-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3314
s/n W3314
c/n 1744
VA (Supermarine)
W 3314
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-06-1941 8MU 08-06-1941 92S 30-06-1941 CB ops 12-10-1941 ASTH 30-10-1941 131S 03-04-1942 243S 03-07-1942 ros 30-09-1942 65S 31-12-1942 130S 'PJ-F' 31-03-1943 349S 19-07-1943 Scottish Aviation 07-11-1943 26S 10-04-1944 air collision with AA850 and BL638 crashed Old Alresford Hants CE 19-08-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3315
s/n W3315
c/n 1745
VA (Supermarine)
W 3315
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-06-1941 8MU 08-06-1941 609S 'PR-U' 29-06-1941 Out of fuel force-landed Gravesend 21-09-1941 ASDT SOC 27-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3316
s/n W3316
c/n 1750
VA (Supermarine)
W 3316
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-06-1941 8MU 11-06-1941 72S 'RN-M' 29-06-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Hazebrouck 24-07-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3317
s/n W3317
c/n 1751
VA (Supermarine)
W 3317
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-06-1941 8MU 11-06-1941 74S 29-06-1941 Missing from sweep to Albert 07-07-1941 Flight Sergeant W G Lockhart missing
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3318
s/n W3318
c/n 1753
VA (Supermarine)
W 3318
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Jewellery Watch & Allied Trades FF". Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 20 September 1941 to October 1941. Coded "KH*N". With No. 411 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 25 September 1942. Became instructional airframe 3405M on 17 October 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-06-1941 9MU 12-06-1941 611S 29-06-1941 damaged ops 16-08-1941 403S 20-09-1941 ros AFDU 12-10-1941 610S 17-11-1941 411S 25-09-1942 to 3405M 10SoTT 17-10-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3319
s/n W3319
c/n 1754
VA (Supermarine)
W 3319
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-06-1941 9MU 12-06-1941 92S 'QJ-X' 12-07-1941 Crashed in Channel while escorting Blenheims to St.Omer 27-08-1941 Flight Sergeant E H Roff killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3320
s/n W3320
c/n 1756
VA (Supermarine)
W 3320
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-06-1941 9MU 12-06-1941 92S 12-07-1941 ASTH 11-11-1941 54S 01-03-1942 FACB 19-04-1942 ros VASM 14-03-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 118S 08-07-1943 64S 'SH-L' 25-09-1943 611S 10-07-1944 234S 05-10-1944 Hit by MA228 while parked North Weald FACB 28-10-1944 63S 04-11-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3321
s/n W3321
c/n 1757
VA (Supermarine)
W 3321
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-06-1941 9MU 12-06-1941 74S 05-07-1941 72S ros 19-08-1941 FAAC 25-03-1942 ros VASM 18-06-1942 mods 124S 29-06-1942 FAAC 02-07-1942 ros ASTH 29-08-1942 602S 03-01-1943 129S 22-01-1943 66S 19-02-1943 FTR off Noup Head Orkneys 12-03-1943 FH229.40
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3322
s/n W3322
c/n 1765
VA (Supermarine)
W 3322
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-06-1941 9MU 14-06-1941 DGRD VA 27-06-1941 R-R 12-08-1941 pressure fuel syst install AAEE 03-09-1941 guns removed trials with new fuel syst. 04-1942 trials of Triplex designed balloon hood. No effect on perf 06-1942 trials with M45 and M46 when fitt with (1) inertia weight elev cross shaft. trials to determine best system for the Spitfire high alt VI All devices did not affect performance 01-10-1942 performance trials with R-R SU fuel injection pump feeding fuel into supercharger intake performance above average 11-10-1942 fuel consumption and handling tests with SU pump engine used less fuel above 30000ft 01-02-1943 fuel system tests with SU pump valid for temperate zones engine surging and cut-out in tropical conditions 14-07-1943 fit normal AVT40 carburetter for comparison trials with SU pump lower performance with AVT40 19-09-1943 comparison fuel consumption tests with P7661 (IIa) N3053 (Va with M61) AB488 (Vc low boost engine) X4922 (VaT) 08-03-1944 trials to determine air solubility in fuel Thornton lab analysed results transfer to RAF Houston Park and flown from there as base aerodrome AST 09-05-1944 41OTU 14-09-1944 to 5584M 1PATP 11-1945 Armee de l'Air 16-03-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3323
s/n W3323
c/n 1764
VA (Supermarine)
W 3323
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-06-1941 6MU 14-06-1941 54S 23-06-1941 damaged combat Bf109 25-06-1941 SOC 01-07-1941 bboc 129S air collision with P8742 aircraft abandoned crashed in Chichester Harbour 07-09-1941 FH2.25
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3324
s/n W3324
c/n 1766
VA (Supermarine)
W 3324
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;403
Walker:
Named "Newcastle on Tyne II". Squadron history of No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, shows this aircraft arriving on 5 May 1942, lost on operations 2 June 1943. RAF records show this aircraft lost in combat on 2 June 1942, during Rodeo 69 in the Pas-de-Calias area. Flying Officer J.F. Parr POW. One of 7 seven aircraft lost by 403 Sdn. In this mission.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-06-1941 6MU 14-06-1941 92S 08-07-1941 GAL 14-08-1941 403S 'KH-E' 05-05-1942 Missing on sweep nr Gravelines 02-06-1942 FH205.50
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3325
s/n W3325
c/n 1772
VA (Supermarine)
W 3325
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-06-1941 6MU 14-06-1941 611S 25-06-1941 Missing while escorting Stirlings to Mazingarbe 09-07-1941 Pilot Officer Johnston killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3326
s/n W3326
c/n 1776
VA (Supermarine)
W 3326
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;92;403
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-06-1941 8MU 08-07-1941 92S 08-07-1941 Missing escorting Stirlings to Lille 19-07-1941 Flight Sergeant C G Waldern killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3327
s/n W3327
c/n 1777
VA (Supermarine)
W 3327
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-06-1941 6MU 16-06-1941 611S 25-06-1941 Collided with W3515 on ASR escort off Boulogne 21-10-1941 SOC 22-10-1941 Pilot Officer J F Reeves killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3328
s/n W3328
c/n 1779
VA (Supermarine)
W 3328
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-06-1941 6MU 19-06-1941 611S 25-06-1941 AST 14-07-1941 315S 27-09-1941 CB ops 06-01-1942 VASM 11-06-1942 fuel syst mods 4USAAF 12-08-1942 332S 08-11-1942 VASM 25-05-1943 M50M cropped supercharger eng install RNAS 20-02-1944 Cunliffe-Owen 12-05-1944 761S Henstridge 01-1945 Lee on Solent 24-04-1945 33MU [25-12-1944 ] to 5571M 1PATP 11-1945 Armee de l'Air 11-03-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3329
s/n W3329
c/n 1778
VA (Supermarine)
W 3329
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-06-1941 6MU 15-06-1941 611S Shot down by Bf109s nr Lille 21-07-1941 Flight Sergeant W E Grainger killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3330
s/n W3330
c/n 1781
VA (Supermarine)
W 3330
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-06-1941 92S 08-07-1941 ASTH 26-08-1941 611S 11-02-1942 242S 04-06-1942 222S 11-08-1942 Westland 15-10-1942 65S 31-12-1942 130S 31-03-1943 349S 01-08-1943 VASM 05-11-1943 fuel syst mods 278S 18-04-1944 ros 11-06-1944 275S 04-08-1944 SOC 20-02-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3331
s/n W3331
c/n 1796
VA (Supermarine)
W 3331
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-06-1941 8MU 28-06-1941 92S 01-07-1941 Missing from escorting Stirlings to Lille 06-07-1941 FH7.15 Flight Sergeant C G Todd killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3332
s/n W3332
c/n 1800
VA (Supermarine)
W 3332
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Hendon Griffon". Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 4 August 1941. Left this unit by November 1941.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-06-1941 8MU 28-06-1941 AST 20-07-1941 ? 54S 24-07-1941 403S 04-08-1941 124S 17-11-1941 CAC ops 13-03-1942 ros Damaged by Fw190 on sweep and abandoned 5m NW of Berek-sur-Mer 25-04-1942
last update: 2025-February-051942-May-25 Failed to Return Failed to return from operations, with No. 124 Squadron at the time. 2019-08-20
Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3333
s/n W3333
c/n 1785
VA (Supermarine)
W 3333
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-06-1941 8MU 20-06-1941 610S 22-08-1941 Collided with P8742 and crashed in Chichester Harbour 07-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3334
s/n W3334
c/n 1789
VA (Supermarine)
W 3334
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;616
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-06-1941 8MU 21-06-1941 616S 22-07-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe 27-09-1941 Pilot Officer R G Sutherland RCAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3364
s/n W3364
c/n 1682
VA (Supermarine)
W 3364
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-05-1941 39MU 21-05-1941 ? 603S 22-06-1941 force-landed 24-06-1941 AST 29-06-1941 602S 25-11-1941 81S 16-12-1941 2USAAF 05-08-1942 DeH 27-02-1943 52OTU 02-12-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3365
s/n W3365
c/n 1695
VA (Supermarine)
W 3365
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-05-1941 6MU 25-05-1941 609S 13-06-1941 RAE 07-1941 Crashed at West Wickham Kent 09-08-1941 ros dbf 02-09-1941 SOC 10-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3366
s/n W3366
c/n 1692
VA (Supermarine)
W 3366
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-05-1941 39MU 24-05-1941 145S 30-06-1941 Missing from escorting Stirlings to Lille 06-07-1941 FH2.55 F/Lt M A Newling DFC killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3367
s/n W3367
c/n 1697
VA (Supermarine)
W 3367
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;72
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 23-05-1941 6MU 25-05-1941 74S 12-06-1941 72S 29-07-1941 Shot down by fighters on sweep to St.Omer 07-11-1941 Pilot Officer H Birkland RCAF PoW was part of the 'Great Escape'
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3368
s/n W3368
c/n 1702
VA (Supermarine)
W 3368
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-05-1941 6MU 25-05-1941 609S 23-06-1941 ASTH 08-09-1941 71S 24-05-1942 CB ops 24-07-1942 GAL 165S 11-06-1943 122S 'MT-V' 18-07-1943 ? 15-08-1943 VASM 25-01-1944 fuel syst mods SOC 26-02-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3369
s/n W3369
c/n 1711
VA (Supermarine)
W 3369
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;603
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-05-1941 38MU 29-05-1941 603S 26-06-1941 Dived into sea off Ramsgate Kent 22-07-1941 Pilot Officer P J DeLorme killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3370
s/n W3370
c/n 1723
VA (Supermarine)
W 3370
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 411 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 20 December 1942. To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 25 March 1943. Left this unit by 26 April 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-05-1941 8MU 01-06-1941 609S crashed del flt 23-06-1941 611S 31-12-1941 616S 28-01-1942 307USAAF 20-04-1942 350S 12-09-1942 411S 20-12-1942 402S 25-03-1943 19S 26-04-1943 Cunliffe-Owen 09-11-1943 RNAS Lee on Solent 28-02-1944 Charlton Horethorne 01-12-1944 798S Lee/Halesworth 01-1945 to 09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3371
s/n W3371
c/n 1726
VA (Supermarine)
W 3371
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-05-1941 8MU 07-06-1941 609S 25-06-1941 ros 09-10-1941 266S 30-10-1941 AST 22-11-1941 65S 24-07-1942 317S 04-09-1942 303S 07-11-1942 HAL 06-02-1943 VASM 04-06-1943 Cv Seafire Ib reserialled PA119
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3372
s/n W3372
c/n 1734
VA (Supermarine)
W 3372
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-06-1941 8MU 07-06-1941 609S 25-06-1941 CAC ops 21-07-1941 Scottish Aviation 167S 30-06-1942 ? 610S 14-10-1942 131S 25-01-1943 Scottish Aviation 13-04-1943 ASTH [221S] Cv Seafire Ib reserialled NX980
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF LR Mk Vb serial W3373
s/n W3373
c/n 1739
VA (Supermarine)
W 3373
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-06-1941 8MU 09-06-1941 609S 25-06-1941 Scottish Aviation 25-07-1941 154S 26-06-1942 AST 17-07-1942 315S 05-09-1942 AST 03-07-1943 349S 'GE-X' 08-10-1943 303S 06-03-1944 FAAC 20-05-1944 ros Scottish Aviation 19-07-1944 51OTU 24-09-1944 SOC 10-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3374
s/n W3374
c/n 1742
VA (Supermarine)
W 3374
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-06-1941 8MU 08-06-1941 145S 07-07-1941 41S 28-07-1941 AST 29-08-1941 Broke up in air and crashed on Littlehampton beach Sussex 16-09-1941 SOC 27-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3375
s/n W3375
c/n 1747
VA (Supermarine)
W 3375
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-06-1941 8MU 09-06-1941 92S 08-07-1941 610S 'DW-N' 15-11-1941 315S 17-07-1942 FAAC 30-09-1942 AST 29-07-1943 453S 22-01-1944 602S 20-02-1944 118S 13-03-1944 64S 11-06-1944 53OTU 17-07-1944 burst tyre takeoff overturned Kirton-in-Lindsey 04-03-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3376
s/n W3376
c/n 1759
VA (Supermarine)
W 3376
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-06-1941 33MU 14-06-1941 610S 07-07-1941 Missing while escorting Stirlings 21-07-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3377
s/n W3377
c/n 1760
VA (Supermarine)
W 3377
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-06-1941 33MU 14-06-1941 TFU 24-08-1941 AST 25-03-1944 26S 24-12-1944 41OTU 25-01-1945 58OTU 22-03-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3378
s/n W3378
c/n 1761
VA (Supermarine)
W 3378
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-06-1941 33MU 14-06-1941 AST 10-07-1941 6MU 609S 17-09-1941 CAC ops 14-04-1942 R-R 30-04-1942 610S 12-03-1943 350S 27-03-1943 FACB 46MU 28-05-1943 131S 17-06-1943 310S 30-06-1943 313S 29-07-1943 3507SU 24-09-1943 350S 09-10-1943 Cat B 350S 14-11-1943 Cat B 39MU 15-03-1944 501S 29-04-1944 345S 15-08-1944 61OTU Cat AC 61OTU 28-12-1944 3501SU 22-02-1945 SOC 30-07-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Va serial W3379
s/n W3379
c/n 1768
VA (Supermarine)
W 3379
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-06-1941 33MU 15-06-1941 603S 28-07-1941 145S 18-11-1941 134S 19-12-1941 133S 28-12-1941 134S 31-12-1941 133S 02-01-1942 Hit snowdrift on take-off and overturned Kirton-in-Lindsey CB 05-02-1942 ASTH recat E 20-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3380
s/n W3380
c/n 1774
VA (Supermarine)
W 3380
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF, January and February 1942. To No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 7 August 1943. Left this unit by March 1944.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-06-1941 33MU 21-06-1941 74S 06-07-1941 72S 27-07-1941 ASTH 29-08-1941 412S 26-01-1942 FAAC 25-02-1942 ros 38MU 07-11-1942 M46 install 167S 08-03-1943 308S 07-05-1943 401S 07-08-1943 303S 25-03-1944 53OTU 02-09-1944 Portsmouth Aviation 10-09-1945 SOC 14-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3381
s/n W3381
c/n 1773
VA (Supermarine)
W 3381
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-06-1941 33MU 15-06-1941 92S 10-07-1941 Shot down by Bf109 in sea while escorting Blenheims to Hazebrouck 24-07-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3382
s/n W3382
c/n 1782
VA (Supermarine)
W 3382
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-06-1941 33MU 21-06-1941 610S 07-07-1941 602S 08-12-1941 Missing presumed shot down by Fw190 escorting Bostons to Mazingarbe 09-03-1942 Flight Sergeant J D O'Connor killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3383
s/n W3383
c/n 1787
VA (Supermarine)
W 3383
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-06-1941 33MU 21-06-1941 41S 28-07-1941 Damaged in accident 01-05-1942 ASTH CE 11-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3403
s/n W3403
c/n 1746
VA (Supermarine)
W 3403
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-06-1941 6MU 11-06-1941 92S 09-07-1941 Shot down over Channel escorting Stirlings to Choeques 10-07-1941 SOC 11-07-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3404
s/n W3404
c/n 1762
VA (Supermarine)
W 3404
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-06-1941 6MU 12-06-1941 609S 08-07-1941 ros 54S 17-03-1942 167S 31-05-1942 610S 14-10-1942 131S 25-01-1943 AST 03-03-1943 VASM 02-06-1943 VASM fuel syst mods wing stiff 308S 20-07-1943 Shot down by Bf109s nr Bernay CE 16-08-1943 SOC 31-08-1943 FH353.25
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3405
s/n W3405
c/n 1752
VA (Supermarine)
W 3405
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-06-1941 6MU 11-06-1941 91S 19-06-1941 GAL 26-05-1942 4USAAF 06-08-1942 332S 08-11-1942 DeH 20-06-1944 41OTU 10-02-1945 FAAC 20-03-1945 ros 58OTU 19-04-1945 SOC 03-11-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3406
s/n W3406
c/n 1769
VA (Supermarine)
W 3406
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 425 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 22 November 1941. Left this unit by February 1942..
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-06-1941 5MU 15-06-1941 485S 10-08-1941 ros 24-10-1941 452S 22-11-1941 72S 13-02-1942 Shot down by Bf109 escorting 6 Bostons to Abbbeville marshalling yds 25-04-1942 FH92.05 Flight Sergeant J G McCutchan RNZAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3407
s/n W3407
c/n 1770
VA (Supermarine)
W 3407
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-06-1941 5MU 15-06-1941 602S 18-08-1941 485S 28-10-1941 FAAC 12-01-1942 ros 81S 05-04-1942 317S 01-05-1942 122S 'MT-R' 19-05-1943 313S 18-08-1943 DeH 16-06-1944 CGS 13-10-1944 SOC 25-10-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3408
s/n W3408
c/n 1758
VA (Supermarine)
W 3408
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-06-1941 9MU 13-06-1941 72S 08-07-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Rotterdam 28-08-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3409
s/n W3409
c/n 1763
VA (Supermarine)
W 3409
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-06-1941 9MU 13-06-1941 74S 30-06-1941 92S 07-08-1941 Missing while escorting Blenheims 21-08-1941 Flight Sergeant J Aherne killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3410
s/n W3410
c/n 1767
VA (Supermarine)
W 3410
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-06-1941 9MU 15-06-1941 92S 'QJ-B' 05-07-1941 AST 16-07-1941 316S 11-10-1941 306S 12-12-1941 Bounced on landing swung and u/c leg collapsed Kirton-in-Lindsey 07-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3411
s/n W3411
c/n 1771
VA (Supermarine)
W 3411
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-06-1941 5MU 15-06-1941 74S 06-07-1941 Missing escorting Stirlings to Choeques believed shot down by Bfl09 20-07-1941 SOC 17-07-1941 Flying Officer J M Godlewski killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3412
s/n W3412
c/n 1775
VA (Supermarine)
W 3412
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-06-1941 24MU 16-06-1941 74S 22-06-1941 222S 26-08-1941 FAAC 01-01-1942 ros 131S 10-05-1942 FAAC 08-06-1942 ros AST 12-09-1942 VASM 21-10-1942 fuel syst mods wing stiff 504S 14-03-1943 AST 11-04-1943 165S 04-07-1943 308S 10-10-1943 Scottish Aviation 01-12-1944 8OTU 10-03-1945 SOC 25-10-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk. VB serial W3421
s/n W3421
W 3421
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, c.1941 to 1943. Coded "KH*F". Reported in Kostenuk and Griffin, bu this serial number was not allocated. Maybe W3431?
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3422
s/n W3422
c/n 1798
VA (Supermarine)
W 3422
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-06-1941 24MU 23-06-1941 91S 20-07-1941 Heston 08-09-1941 91S 10-09-1941 Shot down by Bf109s while escorting ASR launch off Calais 01-10-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3423
s/n W3423
c/n 1799
VA (Supermarine)
W 3423
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-06-1941 24MU 23-06-1941 609S 20-07-1941 AST 20-09-1941 603S 21-12-1941 2USAAF 31-07-1942 26S 02-04-1944 FAAC 08-09-1944 ros 41OTU 21-01-1945 to 5383M 5SoTT 13-07-1945 SOC 29-11-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3424
s/n W3424
c/n 1802
VA (Supermarine)
W 3424
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-06-1941 24MU 23-06-1941 616S 22-07-1941 Westland 18-08-1941 317S 'JH-Q' 01-11-1941 Wheel hit hole on take-off for sweep and u/c leg broke off crashlanded Northolt CAC 03-05-1942 SOC CE 29-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3425
s/n W3425
c/n 1803
VA (Supermarine)
W 3425
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-06-1941 24MU 23-06-1941 452S wheels up landing u/c jam metal swarf found in hydraulic system 20-08-1941 damaged by Bf109 07-10-1941 ros 129S 11-10-1941 CB ops 18-12-1941 Westland 232S 'EF-Z' 09-05-1942 4USAAF 05-08-1942 VASM 24-09-1942 fuel syst mods 401S 06-12-1942 91S 09-12-1942 Shot down by Fw190 off Dungeness 24-03-1943 Flying Officer R G H Dehaas killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3426
s/n W3426
c/n 1804
VA (Supermarine)
W 3426
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 12 September 1941. Coded "KH*D". Category AC damage on operations on 12 April 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-06-1941 24MU 25-06-1941 452S 04-08-1941 AST 16-08-1941 403S 12-09-1941 CAC ops 12-04-1942 AST 602S 27-08-1942 164S 09-01-1943 341S 22-02-1943 340S 23-02-1943 234S 'AZ-W' 13-02-1944 DeH 28-07-1944 Armee de l'Air 09-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3427
s/n W3427
c/n 1805
VA (Supermarine)
W 3427
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-06-1941 38MU 25-06-1941 610S 19-07-1941 CE ops 23-07-1941 AST 307USAAF 13-07-1942 FACA 18-08-1942 303S 11-09-1942 VASM 24-10-1942 fuel syst mods wing stiff 315S 06-06-1943 hit high ground in formation with AR338 and BL469 Clady Corner Co Antrim Ireland CE 11-09-1943 SOC 28-09-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF LR Mk Vb serial W3428
s/n W3428
c/n 1807
VA (Supermarine)
W 3428
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-06-1941 38MU 26-06-1941 616S 22-07-1941 65S 06-10-1941 131S 04-05-1942 FAAC 06-06-1942 AST 316S 'SZ-I' 30-01-1943 306S 16-03-1943 302S 03-10-1943 Scottish Aviation 18-10-1943 602S 01-03-1944 118S 13-03-1944 FAAC 11-04-1944 ros
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3429
s/n W3429
c/n 1808
VA (Supermarine)
W 3429
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-06-1941 38MU 26-06-1941 72S 20-07-1941 222S 15-02-1942 CB ops 10-06-1942 VASM 15-09-1942 fuel syst mods 118S 02-03-1943 Shot down by flak Zand Netherlands 10-04-1943 Pilot Officer A J Beer RAAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3430
s/n W3430
c/n 1809
VA (Supermarine)
W 3430
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-06-1941 38MU 26-06-1941 72S 20-07-1941 222S 14-05-1942 FACB 23-09-1942 Scottish Aviation 06-06-1943 222MU 29-09-1943 Empire Ortolan 06-10-1943 Portugal 19-10-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3431
s/n W3431
c/n 1828
VA (Supermarine)
W 3431
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Kaapstad III". Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 31 December 1941. Category AC damage in a flying accident on 30 March 1942, repaired on site.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-06-1941 38MU 01-07-1941 72S 24-07-1941 ros 03-10-1941 403S 31-12-1941 FAAC 30-03-1942 ros Westland 5USAAF 06-08-1942 6MU 11-11-1943 M55M install VASM 23-02-1944 fuel syst mods wing stiff MkIII IFF S Type pt bomb carrier CGS 03-10-1944 R-R refurb to Portugal 22-09-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3432
s/n W3432
c/n 1810
VA (Supermarine)
W 3432
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Cordell Hull". Used by No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 22 to 26 April 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-06-1941 38MU 26-06-1941 616S 22-07-1941 65S 06-10-1941 FAAC 31-12-1941 ros 130S 27-08-1942 402S 22-04-1943 19S 26-04-1943 65S 04-07-1943 130S 15-08-1943 VASM 05-10-1943 Basta mods 303S 20-02-1944 VASM 24-03-1944 fuel syst mods 277S 17-06-1944 SOC 10-05-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3433
s/n W3433
c/n 1815
VA (Supermarine)
W 3433
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;616
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-06-1941 38MU 28-06-1941 616S 22-07-1941 ASTH 23-08-1941 Collided with W3517 off Brighton 23-09-1941 Pilot Officer E H Burton RCAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3434
s/n W3434
c/n 1817
VA (Supermarine)
W 3434
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-06-1941 45MU 29-06-1941 610S 22-07-1941 Missing while escorting Blenheims to Le Trait 21-08-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3435
s/n W3435
c/n 1816
VA (Supermarine)
W 3435
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-06-1941 45MU 30-06-1941 616S 09-07-1941 610S 19-07-1941 129S 31-12-1941 SOC CE 28-02-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3436
s/n W3436
c/n 1820
VA (Supermarine)
W 3436
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;124
Walker:
Named "Midland Banker". Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 4 August 1941. Coded "KH*X" on 12 August 1941, when it took part in Operation 77. Left this unit by November 1941.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-06-1941 45MU 03-07-1941 54S 11-07-1941 403S 04-08-1941 124S 17-11-1941 Ditched in Channel returning from sweep over Pas de Calais 24-04-1942 Pilot Officer E N MacDonell killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3437
s/n W3437
c/n 1821
VA (Supermarine)
W 3437
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-06-1941 45MU 02-07-1941 ? 54S 11-07-1941 AST 27-07-1941 611S 12-02-1942 242S 02-06-1942 222S 11-08-1942 Scottish Aviation 16-10-1942 64S 31-03-1943 FAAC 01-05-1943 ros Cunliffe-Owen 07-02-1944 for Cv RNAS Henstridge 20-04-1944 ros 14-05-1944 808S 07-1944 759S Yeovilton 09-1944 to 10-1944 761S Henstridge 12-1944 to 02-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3438
s/n W3438
c/n 1826
VA (Supermarine)
W 3438
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;403
Walker:
First flown on 28 June 1941. Named "Kaapstad I". Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 4 August 1941. Coded "KH*G". On Operation 77 over France on 12 August 1941. Used by Squadron Leader B. G. Morris to score one confirmed and one probable, over France, on 19 August 1941. Lost in fight with Bf 109s over Chocques, France on 21 August 1941, during Circus 83. Flying Officer D.J. McKenna bailed out, taken POW, died of wounds on 4 September 1941.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-06-1941 45MU 04-07-1941 54S 11-07-1941 403S 'KH-G' 04-08-1941 Abandoned during sweep over France 21-08-1941 SOC 22-08-1941 Flying Officer J D McKenna RCAF baled out but died of wounds
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3439
s/n W3439
c/n 1827
VA (Supermarine)
W 3439
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Kaapstad IV". Used by No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 12 March 1943. To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 3 June 1943. Left this unit by 7 June 1943. Later to USAAF.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-06-1941 6MU 01-07-1941 92S 10-07-1941 19S 25-02-1942 FACB 25-06-1942 401S 12-03-1943 416S 03-06-1943 19S 07-06-1943 322S 20-07-1943 FACB 24-08-1943 SOC 31-08-1943 recat B AST USAAF 07-05-1944 FAAC 21-08-1944 ros 1687Flt 04-04-1945 overshot at Binbrook onto nose CAC 01-07-1946 recat E 09-07-1946 SOC
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3440
s/n W3440
c/n 1829
VA (Supermarine)
W 3440
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Trengganu". Used by No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 8 December 1941. Flew close escort on Circus 112b on 8 March 1942. Left this unit by June 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 01-07-1941 6MU 02-07-1941 72S 10-07-1941 ros 18-10-1941 401S 08-12-1941 93S 06-09-1942 VASM 18-02-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 308S 19-07-1943 Missing while escorting B-26s to Evreux 22-09-1943 presumed shot down by fighters 22-09-1943 Flying Officer H Jurewicz killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3441
s/n W3441
c/n 1830
VA (Supermarine)
W 3441
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Alloway". Used by No. 417 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 24 April 1942. Left this unit by June 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 01-07-1941 6MU 02-07-1941 72S 10-07-1941 417S 24-04-1942 243S 06-06-1942 FAAC 04-08-1942 ros 131S 21-11-1942 FACB 04-12-1942 317S 26-03-1943 formation collision with W3950 crashed nr Slough Bucks CE 07-06-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3442
s/n W3442
c/n 1834
VA (Supermarine)
W 3442
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-07-1941 6MU 03-07-1941 611S 14-07-1941 Shot down by Bf109 while escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe 27-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3443
s/n W3443
c/n 1835
VA (Supermarine)
W 3443
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Cape Town I". Used by No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 4 September 1943. Category B damage in a flying accident on 3 October 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-07-1941 6MU 05-07-1941 609S 08-07-1941 GAL 08-08-1941 VASM 16-02-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 416S 04-09-1943 FACB 03-10-1943 63S 08-04-1944 26S 11-06-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3444
s/n W3444
c/n 1836
VA (Supermarine)
W 3444
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-07-1941 5MU 05-07-1941 92S 10-07-1941 Crashed in night landing Digby FACE 15-11-1941 SOC 16-11-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3445
s/n W3445
c/n 1837
VA (Supermarine)
W 3445
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-07-1941 5MU 05-07-1941 611S 10-07-1941 GAL 12-09-1941 312S 08-12-1941 VASM 12-08-1942 mods HAL 26-08-1942 91S 'DL-W' 26-08-1942 enemy action CB 11-05-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 317S 23-07-1943 312S 03-03-1944 41OTU 25-01-1945 58OTU 22-03-1945 SOC 17-07-1945 to 5393M
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3446
s/n W3446
c/n 1845
VA (Supermarine)
W 3446
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 4 August 1941. Coded "KH*V". Flew Target Support on Operation 77 on 12 August 1941. Left this unit by 29 August 1941.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-07-1941 5MU 08-07-1941 54S 20-07-1941 403S 04-08-1941 AST 29-08-1941 81S 20-04-1942 72S 01-05-1942 350S 20-05-1942 crashed on return convoy patrol Norwich CE 14-06-1942 SOC 15-06-1942 Flight Sergeant M H M Raes killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3447
s/n W3447
c/n 1842
VA (Supermarine)
W 3447
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-07-1941 8MU 05-07-1941 145S 14-07-1941 41S 28-07-1941 Shot down by Bf109 nr St. Omer while escorting Blenheims to Boulogne 14-08-1941 FH37.50
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3448
s/n W3448
c/n 1848
VA (Supermarine)
W 3448
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;222
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-07-1941 8MU 06-07-1941 222S 24-08-1941 ros 27-12-1941 Spun into sea 3m E of Orfordness Suffolk 15-01-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3449
s/n W3449
c/n 1851
VA (Supermarine)
W 3449
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-07-1941 8MU 08-07-1941 610S 22-08-1941 Collided with W3501 in cloud and crashed Bowley Farm S. Mundenham Sussex FACE 05-10-1941 SOC 10-10-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3450
s/n W3450
c/n 1852
VA (Supermarine)
W 3450
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-07-1941 8MU 09-07-1941 111S 25-08-1941 ros 12-10-1941 129S 11-10-1941 41S 'EB-H' 03-03-1942 Shot down by Bf109s while escorting Bostons to Hazebrouck 12-04-1942 FH143.10 Flight Sergeant E G Watts killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3451
s/n W3451
c/n 1853
VA (Supermarine)
W 3451
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-07-1941 8MU 06-07-1941 111S 25-08-1941 Damaged by Bf109s and abandoned over English Channel 04-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3452
s/n W3452
c/n 1854
VA (Supermarine)
W 3452
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Midnight Sun". Used by No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 1 October 1941. Crashed and burned on 27 October 1941. Damaged over France in combat with Bf 109 of JG26. Abandoned over UK, with 25:00 airframe time.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-07-1941 9MU 11-07-1941 401S 01-10-1941 Damaged by Bf109 and abandoned nr Dover on return from sweep 27-10-1941 SOC 31-10-1941 FH25.00
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3453
s/n W3453
c/n 1860
VA (Supermarine)
W 3453
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "County Borough of Reading". Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 4 August 1941. Coded "KH*M". Flew target support on Operation 77 on 12 August 1941. Left this unit by 23 August 1941.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-07-1941 9MU 14-07-1941 54S 22-07-1941 403S 04-08-1941 ASTH 23-08-1941 54S 02-09-1941 ASTH 11-09-1941 124S 17-11-1941 FAAC 24-07-1942 ros 165S 28-08-1942 Collided with BM263 and crashed E of Martlesham Suffolk CE 19-09-1942 FH135.05
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3454
s/n W3454
c/n 1855
VA (Supermarine)
W 3454
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Heston and Isleworth". Used by No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 11 July 1943. Flew on Ramrod 313 on 11 November 1943. Category AC damage in a flying accident on 7 October 1944, repaired on site. Struck off on 25 October 1945, no record of other squadrons using this aircraft after No. 402.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-07-1941 485S 07-08-1941 ASTE 23-09-1941 611S 11-02-1942 243S 02-06-1942 222S 11-08-1942 Scottish Aviation 19-08-1942 VASM 27-03-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 402S 11-07-1943 FAAC 07-10-1944 ros SOC 25-10-1944
last update: 2025-February-05
Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3455
s/n W3455
c/n 1861
VA (Supermarine)
W 3455
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-07-1941 9MU 11-07-1941 610S 'DW-U' 25-07-1941 Shot down while escorting Blenheims to Le Trait 21-08-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3456
s/n W3456
c/n 1863
VA (Supermarine)
W 3456
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-07-1941 9MU 14-07-1941 616S 22-07-1941 ASTH 08-09-1941 65S 06-10-1941 AST 14-12-1941 302S 12-09-1942 308S 13-09-1942 FACE 29-10-1942 AST 11-11-1943 VASM 14-04-1944 fuel syst mods wing stiff 308S engine failed approach Heston crashed CE 10-11-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3457
s/n W3457
c/n 1862
VA (Supermarine)
W 3457
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-07-1941 12MU 13-07-1941 616S 23-07-1941 65S 06-10-1941 AST 23-12-1941 340S 09-03-1942 FAAC 13-07-1942 ros 41S 16-08-1942 FACB 27-08-1942 Westland M46 install 501S 04-04-1943 FACB 11-09-1943 Cunliffe-Owen 04-02-1944 hook fitt RNAS Henstridge 28-03-1944 (761S?) 808S 05-1944 to 06-1944 (LRVb) 761S Henstridge 11-1944 to 01-1945 SOC 28-03-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3458
s/n W3458
c/n 1864
VA (Supermarine)
W 3458
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-07-1941 12MU 16-07-1941 616S 23-07-1941 Shot down by Bf109 on sweep 09-08-1941 F/Lt L H Casson DFC PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3459
s/n W3459
c/n 1872
VA (Supermarine)
W 3459
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-07-1941 12MU 16-07-1941 92S 27-07-1941 Missing on sweep to Le Treport First encounter with Fw190s 02-10-1941 F/Lt J W Lund killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3460
s/n W3460
c/n 1871
VA (Supermarine)
W 3460
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-07-1941 12MU 16-07-1941 616S 24-07-1941 Damaged by Bf109 while escorting Blenheims to Gosnay and abandoned over Channel 21-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3461
s/n W3461
c/n 1874
VA (Supermarine)
W 3461
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-07-1941 45MU 16-07-1941 65S 'YT-A' 22-07-1941 Collided with BL442 over France 27-04-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3501
s/n W3501
c/n 1783
VA (Supermarine)
W 3501
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-06-1941 45MU 20-06-1941 616S 19-07-1941 Collided with W3449 and crashed FACE 05-10-1941 SOC 10-10-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3502
s/n W3502
c/n 1780
VA (Supermarine)
W 3502
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Wolds and Buckrose". Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 4 August 1941. Coded "KH*K". Was coded "KH*L" on 12 August 1941 when it flew on Operation 77. Left this unit by 25 August 1941.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-06-1941 45MU 17-06-1941 616S 10-07-1941 403S 04-08-1941 54S 25-08-1941 603S 26-09-1941 332S 08-06-1942 VASM 07-09-1942 mods Shot down by Fw190 nr St. Omer SOC 10-10-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3503
s/n W3503
c/n 1784
VA (Supermarine)
W 3503
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-06-1941 45MU 22-06-1941 616S 10-07-1941 610S 19-07-1941 Missing presumed shot down by Bf109 nr Gravelines while escorting Blenheims to St.Omer 27-08-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3504
s/n W3504
c/n 1791
VA (Supermarine)
W 3504
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-06-1941 616S 10-07-1941 610S 19-07-1941 ? Missing escorting Blenheims to Le Trait 21-08-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3505
s/n W3505
c/n 1786
VA (Supermarine)
W 3505
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-06-1941 45MU 22-06-1941 485S 10-08-1941 Heston 30-08-1941 109Obs ATC 22-08-1942 air collision with W3797 crashed Chetwynd Salop CE 11-02-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3506
s/n W3506
c/n 1797
VA (Supermarine)
W 3506
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-06-1941 37MU 24-06-1941 306S 06-07-1941 303S 03-10-1941 HAL 09-04-1942 Damaged by Fw190 nr Cassel and ditched 4m SE of Dover 12-04-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3507
s/n W3507
c/n 1795
VA (Supermarine)
W 3507
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-06-1941 37MU 28-06-1941 315S 30-08-1941 ASTH 14-02-1942 317S 05-09-1942 FACB 07-04-1943 VASM 28-06-1943 fuel syst mods MkIII IFF bomb carrier 316S 18-12-1943 FAAC 31-12-1943 ros 129S 04-03-1944 61OTU 28-09-1944 sold scrap J.Dale 08-07-1948
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3508
s/n W3508
c/n 1793
VA (Supermarine)
W 3508
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-06-1941 37MU 24-06-1941 452S 20-08-1941 ros 10-09-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Grand Queville 18-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3509
s/n W3509
c/n 1806
VA (Supermarine)
W 3509
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-06-1941 37MU 24-06-1941 71S 26-08-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe believed ditched on return 17-09-1941 Pilot Officer T P McGerty killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3510
s/n W3510
c/n 1801
VA (Supermarine)
W 3510
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-06-1941 37MU 25-06-1941 HAL 04-10-1941 308S 06-10-1941 316S 13-12-1941 FAAC 22-06-1942 ros 316S 14-08-1942 Rhubarb to Merville area am Hit by flak and dived into the sea 26-11-1942 FH87.50 Pilot Officer B Mijakowski killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3511
s/n W3511
c/n 1811
VA (Supermarine)
W 3511
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-06-1941 12MU 26-06-1941 72S 27-07-1941 ros 16-10-1941 Missing escorting Hurricanes to St.Pol 08-11-1941 Pilot Officer N E Bishop killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3512
s/n W3512
c/n 1814
VA (Supermarine)
W 3512
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-06-1941 12MU 28-06-1941 452S 05-08-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Grand Queville 18-09-1941 Pilot Officer W D Willis RAAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3513
s/n W3513
c/n 1819
VA (Supermarine)
W 3513
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-06-1941 12MU 30-06-1941 72S 31-07-1941 ros 23-08-1941 54S 10-10-1941 315S 23-10-1941 124S 13-12-1941 316S 23-12-1941 Collided with AB825 and crashed White Farm 5m S of Maidstone Kent CE 13-02-1942 SOC 23-02-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3514
s/n W3514
c/n 1823
VA (Supermarine)
W 3514
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-06-1941 12MU 30-06-1941 616S 24-07-1941 Damaged by Bf109 while escorting Blenheims to Boulogne abandoned 10m SE of Calais 14-08-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3515
s/n W3515
c/n 1825
VA (Supermarine)
W 3515
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-06-1941 12MU 03-07-1941 615S 15-07-1941 Collided with W3327 while escorting ASR launch off Boulogne 21-10-1941 Pilot Officer N J Smith killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3516
s/n W3516
c/n 1788
VA (Supermarine)
W 3516
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-06-1941 9MU 21-06-1941 72S 27-07-1941 Missing on ground attack mission to Calais area 19-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3517
s/n W3517
c/n 1790
VA (Supermarine)
W 3517
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-06-1941 9MU 22-06-1941 616S 22-07-1941 Collided with W3433 off Brighton 22-09-1941 Flight Sergeant J B Slack killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3518
s/n W3518
c/n 1792
VA (Supermarine)
W 3518
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-06-1941 9MU 23-06-1941 611S 22-07-1941 ros 29-09-1941 65S 06-10-1941 ASTH 30-10-1941 145S 17-12-1941 FACB 04-04-1942 ros 350S 05-04-1942 FAAC 13-04-1942 ros 129S 05-05-1942 2USAAF 22-08-1942 Scottish Aviation 28-01-1943 M55M install 302S 21-04-1943 118S 10-10-1943 132S 25-01-1944 VASM 20-03-1944 fuel syst mods Basta mods ASTE 18-08-1944 Reid Sigrist refurb to Portugal 14-07-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3519
s/n W3519
c/n 1794
VA (Supermarine)
W 3519
Merlin 55Merlin A
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-06-1941 9MU 22-06-1941 616S 22-07-1941 65S 06-10-1941 Westland 08-05-1942 340S 26-03-1943 VASM 28-11-1943 fuel syst mods AST 14-05-1944 CGS 03-10-1944 Reid Sigrist refurb to Portugal 22-08-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3520
s/n W3520
c/n 1812
VA (Supermarine)
W 3520
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-06-1941 9MU 27-06-1941 452S 11-08-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Boulogne presumed shot down by Bf109 12-10-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3521
s/n W3521
c/n 1813
VA (Supermarine)
W 3521
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 16 April 1943. Category E damage in a flying accident on 14 May 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-06-1941 38MU 27-06-1941 616S 22-07-1941 65S 06-10-1941 ros 18-05-1942 DeH 06-06-1942 93S 26-09-1942 402S 16-04-1943 FACE 14-05-1943 AST FLS Millfield 11-02-1944 350S 17-06-1944 57OTU 23-07-1944 collision with EE715 landing Eshott CB 25-08-1944 LMS 61OTU 16-03-1945 Swung by gust while taxying and hit Mustang FB134 Montford Bridge 09-05-1945 CE 24-05-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3522
s/n W3522
c/n 1822
VA (Supermarine)
W 3522
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-06-1941 38MU 30-06-1941 611S 28-07-1941 R-R mods 64S 14-11-1941 154S 10-05-1942 FACB 10-06-1942 Westland RNAS Stretton 04-09-1942 ASTH 18-09-1942 hook fitt RNAS Lee on Solent 08-10-1942 801S 09-1942 Stretton 03-09-1942 To AST Hamble 18-09-1942 (fit hook) Lee 08-10-1942 880S Machrihanish 13-10-1942 ALSO Machrihanish 11-01-1943 768S Machrihanish 03-1943 Pecked landing Ravager 10-05-1944 (Squadron Leader CDM Barnett)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3523
s/n W3523
c/n 1818
VA (Supermarine)
W 3523
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-06-1941 38MU 30-06-1941 611S 28-07-1941 Damaged by Bf109 while escorting ASR Lysander crash landed and hit mine Deal 07-08-1941 SOC 27-08-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3524
s/n W3524
c/n 1833
VA (Supermarine)
W 3524
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-07-1941 38MU 06-07-1941 308S 05-09-1941 Collided with Bf109 while escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe 17-09-1941 FH17.40 Pilot Officer C Budzalek killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3525
s/n W3525
c/n 1824
VA (Supermarine)
W 3525
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-06-1941 37MU 02-07-1941 616S 23-07-1941 ros 26-09-1941 145S 18-11-1941 350S 07-02-1942 eng cut collision with W3626 landing Atcham CE 17-02-1942 SOC 28-02-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3526
s/n W3526
c/n 1839
VA (Supermarine)
W 3526
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
With No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF. Lost in combat on 2 June 1942, during Rodeo 69 in the Pas-de-Calias area. Flight Lieutenant E.V. Darling KIA. One of 7 seven aircraft lost by 403 Sdn. in this mission.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-07-1941 24MU 05-07-1941 452S 05-09-1941 145S 31-12-1941 602S 01-03-1942 Missing believed shot down by Fw190 while escorting Bostons to St.Inglevert CE 13-03-1942 SOC 31-03-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3527
s/n W3527
c/n 1840
VA (Supermarine)
W 3527
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-07-1941 24MU 05-07-1941 485S 07-08-1941 Shot down by Bf109s nr St.Omer while escorting Blenheims 27-08-1941 Pilot Officer W A Middleton RNZAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3528
s/n W3528
c/n 1846
VA (Supermarine)
W 3528
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-07-1941 24MU 07-07-1941 485S 30-08-1941 118S 10-04-1942 VASM 24-08-1942 fuel syst mods 93S 30-09-1942 317S 24-01-1943 FAAC 11-04-1943 ros 611S 20-05-1943 306S 20-06-1943 316S 06-12-1943 222S 01-01-1944 FAAC 14-01-1944 ros VASM 20-04-1944 mods 277S 10-06-1944 SOC CE 22-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3529
s/n W3529
c/n 1847
VA (Supermarine)
W 3529
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Caithness". Used by No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 4 December 1943. Left this unit by June 1944.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-07-1941 24MU 07-07-1941 452S 05-08-1941 FACA 21-02-1942 129S 08-03-1942 131S 22-10-1942 VASM 18-11-1942 fuel syst mods wing stiff 610S 27-01-1943 310S 30-06-1943 313S 24-07-1943 402S 04-12-1943 Scottish Aviation 13-06-1944 57OTU 04-10-1944 577S 14-06-1945 SOC 25-10-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3530
s/n W3530
c/n 1857
VA (Supermarine)
W 3530
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-07-1941 24MU 11-07-1941 485S 30-08-1941 crashed into hill in bad weather nr Lavant CE 26-09-1941 SOC 05-10-1941 to 4871M
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3560
s/n W3560
c/n 1831
VA (Supermarine)
W 3560
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 01-07-1941 33MU 03-07-1941 616S 06-10-1941 65S 'YT-R' FTR Ramrod 08-11-1941 SOC 11-11-1941 Flight Sergeant S Stulir killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3561
s/n W3561
c/n 1832
VA (Supermarine)
W 3561
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-07-1941 33MU 03-07-1941 313S 26-10-1941 130S 17-12-1941 Missing presumed shot down by Fw190s off Dieppe 19-08-1942 FH118.20
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3562
s/n W3562
c/n 1841
VA (Supermarine)
W 3562
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-07-1941 33MU 05-07-1941 92S 12-07-1941 Dived into house Biggin Hill 13-09-1941 SOC 15-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3563
s/n W3563
c/n 1843
VA (Supermarine)
W 3563
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-07-1941 24MU 05-07-1941 611S 14-07-1941 64S 14-11-1941 222S 02-05-1942 Shot down by Bf109 10m N of Blankenberge during sweep over Vlissingen 27-05-1942 Flight Sergeant C A G Armstrong killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3564
s/n W3564
c/n 1849
VA (Supermarine)
W 3564
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 28 January 1942. Coded "KH*K". Lost on operations on 2 June 1942, after combat over Le Touquet, France. Ditched near Dover, pilot F/Sgt. G.D. Aitken rescued. Had 231:40 airframe time when lost.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-07-1941 24MU 09-07-1941 145S 17-07-1941 41S 28-07-1941 AST 27-08-1941 403S 28-01-1942 Abandoned off Dover on return from sweep after combat with Fw190s 02-06-1942 FH231.40
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3565
s/n W3565
c/n 1850
VA (Supermarine)
W 3565
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-07-1941 24MU 09-07-1941 145S 17-07-1941 41S 28-07-1941 Ditched returning from bomber escort during attack on German fleet off Belgian coast 12-02-1942 Flight Sergeant B P Dunstan killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3566
s/n W3566
c/n 1858
VA (Supermarine)
W 3566
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-07-1941 24MU 11-07-1941 AFDU 17-07-1941 engine failed force-landed nr Coningsby 01-10-1941 SOC 09-10-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3567
s/n W3567
c/n 1859
VA (Supermarine)
W 3567
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-07-1941 24MU 11-07-1941 611S 28-07-1941 Shot down by Bf109s off Gravelines SOC 16-08-1941 Pilot Officer E J Lamb killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3568
s/n W3568
c/n 1865
VA (Supermarine)
W 3568
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-07-1941 12MU 12-07-1941 92S 27-07-1941 Missing from bomber escort SOC 08-08-1941 Flight Sergeant C H Howard RNZAF missing
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF LR Mk Vb serial W3569
s/n W3569
c/n 1866
VA (Supermarine)
W 3569
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 7 March 1942. Category AC damage in a flying accident on 25 March 1942, repiared on site. Left this unit by July 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-07-1941 12MU 12-07-1941 603S 25-07-1941 611S 25-08-1941 Scottish Aviation 25-10-1941 416S 07-03-1942 FAAC 25-03-1942 ros 602S 15-07-1942 164S 11-09-1942 341S 03-02-1943 340S 'GW-H' 23-03-1943 collision with BM133 Athelstone Ford E Lothian CA 06-04-1943 316S 01-12-1943 Engine caught fire crashed crashed Congleton Cheshire FACE 21-03-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3570
s/n W3570
c/n 1870
VA (Supermarine)
W 3570
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 411 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 16 October 1941. Repiared on site on 4 November 1941, no details. Category B damage on operations on 8 January 1942. Struck off on 3 February 1942, apparently not repairable.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-07-1941 12MU 15-07-1941 222S 22-08-1941 411S 16-10-1941 ros 04-11-1941 One flap jammed up hit Hurricane on landing and ran into dispersal pen Manston CB 08-01-1942 CE SOC 03-02-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3571
s/n W3571
c/n 1876
VA (Supermarine)
W 3571
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-07-1941 12MU 17-07-1941 452S 05-08-1941 ros 30-09-1941 AST 19-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3572
s/n W3572
c/n 1877
VA (Supermarine)
W 3572
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;64
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 15-07-1941 12MU 17-07-1941 452S 05-08-1941 ros 20-02-1942 ASTH 14-05-1942 222S 31-12-1942 64S 31-03-1943 into sea after mock attack on bomber nr Lady Isle of Clydebank CE 29-04-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3573
s/n W3573
c/n 1887
VA (Supermarine)
W 3573
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, mid 1941. Coded "KH*K". Used by Pilot Officer K.H. Anthony to score this unit's first kill, a Bf109F over France on 9 August 1941. Operating out of Hornchurch at that time. Failed to return from operations on 19 August 1941.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-07-1941 12MU 20-07-1941 54S 24-07-1941 403S 04-08-1941 Missing presumed shot down by Bf109 while escorting Blenheims to Gosnay 19-08-1941 SOC 20-08-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3574
s/n W3574
c/n 1888
VA (Supermarine)
W 3574
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 16 November 1943. Left this unit by February 1944.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-07-1941 33MU 20-07-1941 609S 01-08-1941 downwind landing North Weald crashed 16-10-1941 65S 23-09-1942 ? RAE for accident invest 453S 'FU-Q' 11-10-1942 ? 222S 31-03-1943 167S 19-05-1943 Scottish Aviation 05-08-1943 310S 24-09-1943 416S 16-11-1943 186S 10-02-1944 ros 12-05-1944 Portsmouth Aviation 27-09-1945 SOC 29-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3575
s/n W3575
c/n 1889
VA (Supermarine)
W 3575
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 417 (F) Squadron, RCAF in April 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-07-1941 33MU 20-07-1941 222S 07-09-1941 AST 29-12-1941 417S 04-04-1942 242S 21-04-1942 FAAC 19-06-1942 243S 19-08-1942 FAAC 30-09-1942 ros Scottish Aviation 08-01-1943 VASM 03-03-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 310S 21-05-1943 131S 02-07-1943 ASTE 04-08-1943 443S 27-02-1944 Scottish Aviation 20-03-1944 53OTU 02-09-1944 engine failed force-landed 5m S Wickenby CE 04-01-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3576
s/n W3576
c/n 1890
VA (Supermarine)
W 3576
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-07-1941 33MU 20-07-1941 92S 21-08-1941 FTR from sweep 26-08-1941 Pilot Officer E W H Phillips killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3577
s/n W3577
c/n 1904
VA (Supermarine)
W 3577
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-07-1941 33MU 01-08-1941 485S 'OU-O' 07-08-1941 Ramrod 17 to Le Havre pm Crash-landed on the beach 27-03-1942 Flight Sergeant W M Krebs killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3578
s/n W3578
c/n 1905
VA (Supermarine)
W 3578
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-07-1941 33MU 01-08-1941 485S 07-08-1941 Hit by P8718 while parked at Kenley FACE 11-01-1942 SOC
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3579
s/n W3579
c/n 1906
VA (Supermarine)
W 3579
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-07-1941 33MU 01-08-1941 485S 07-08-1941 HAL 23-10-1941 Shot down by flak while escorting Hurricanes to Bourbourg Canal nr Dunkerque 31-10-1941 W/C E N Ryder DFC PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3599
s/n W3599
c/n 1867
VA (Supermarine)
W 3599
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-07-1941 33MU 14-07-1941 92S 22-08-1941 610S 16-11-1941 HAL 07-12-1941 133S 14-06-1942 91S 15-06-1942 CAC ops 23-06-1942 AST 234S 16-09-1942 Crashed in bad visibility Southall FACE 12-12-1942 SOC 16-12-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3600
s/n W3600
c/n 1868
VA (Supermarine)
W 3600
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-07-1941 33MU 14-07-1941 452S 24-08-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Grand Queville engaged by Bf109s 18-09-1941 Flight Sergeant C F R Manning killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3601
s/n W3601
c/n 1873
VA (Supermarine)
W 3601
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;401
Walker:
Used by No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 28 September 1941. Lost on operations 27 October 1941, shot up by Bf 109s over France. Crashed while attempting to land at Deal, UK. Pilot Sgt. S.L. Thompson was killed.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-07-1941 37MU 19-07-1941 41S 26-09-1941 401S 28-09-1941 Damaged by fighters on sweep abandoned and crashed Martin Hill nr Deal Kent CE 27-10-1941 SOC 31-10-1941 FH16.30 Flight Sergeant S L Thompson killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3602
s/n W3602
c/n 1869
VA (Supermarine)
W 3602
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-07-1941 37MU 14-07-1941 131S 10-12-1941 FACB 23-03-1942 ros 93S 23-07-1942 308S 13-12-1942 315S 26-12-1942 AST 07-04-1943 FACB 20-05-1943 VASM 06-07-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff S Type pt bomb carrier Cunliffe-Owen 07-11-1943 RNAS Lee on Solent 08-02-1944 Henstridge 05-1944 ? 897S Lee oleo leg collapsed landing Cat Y1 28-05-1944 (Squadron Leader DH Grime) 761S Henstridge 10-1944 engine failed at 32000ft belly landed 03-02-1945 (Squadron Leader CG Gardiner)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3603
s/n W3603
c/n 1880
VA (Supermarine)
W 3603
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;111
Walker:
Used by No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 28 October 1941, on operations. Coded "YO*P". Category B damage on operations 13 February 1942. Had left this unit by June 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-07-1941 37MU 19-07-1941 609S 02-08-1941 AST 12-08-1941 401S 28-10-1941 CB ops 13-02-1942 610S 08-06-1942 111S 16-07-1942 Hit by flak and abandoned 10m off Ostend 25-07-1942 F/Lt C W J Fernie RCAF PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3604
s/n W3604
c/n 1893
VA (Supermarine)
W 3604
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 12 September 1941. Left this unit by November 1941. Survived the war, and was sold as scrap.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-07-1941 37MU 20-07-1941 403S 12-09-1941 610S 16-11-1941 65S 25-05-1942 303S 22-08-1942 VASM 22-08-1942 mods 65S 31-08-1942 315S 06-06-1943 340S 28-09-1943 485S 11-11-1943 VASM 20-03-1944 fuel syst mods AST 09-05-1944 57OTU 06-10-1944 sold scrap J.Dale
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3605
s/n W3605
c/n 1894
VA (Supermarine)
W 3605
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-07-1941 37MU 20-07-1941 452S 20-08-1941 118S 03-03-1942 AST 10-03-1942 Scottish Aviation 13-06-1942 242S 29-07-1942 222S 11-08-1942 VASM 19-04-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 302S 02-07-1943 501S 'SD-L' 08-11-1943 SOC 25-04-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3606
s/n W3606
c/n 1895
VA (Supermarine)
W 3606
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-07-1941 39MU 20-07-1941 222S 24-08-1941 CB ops 25-03-1942 VASM 31-08-1942 fuel syst mods 91S 28-12-1942 CAC ops 26-12-1942 ? 602S 16-06-1943 CAC ops 04-09-1943 501S 31-03-1944 FAAC 03-04-1944 ros 287S 17-01-1945 SOC 08-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3607
s/n W3607
c/n 1900
VA (Supermarine)
W 3607
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-07-1941 39MU 01-08-1941 Starveall Farm dispersal 41S 30-08-1941 ASTH 03-10-1941 Crashed on approach Woodstock SLG Oxon FACE 08-05-1942 SOC
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3608
s/n W3608
c/n 1908
VA (Supermarine)
W 3608
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 9 October 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-07-1941 39MU 01-08-1941 Starveall Farm dispersal 41S 01-09-1941 412S 09-10-1943 CGS 01-10-1944 1AGS 28-11-1944 SOC 19-08-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3618
s/n W3618
c/n 1909
VA (Supermarine)
W 3618
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-07-1941 39MU 01-08-1941 Starveall Farm dispersal 72S 30-08-1941 315S 01-09-1941 HAL 23-09-1941 AST 12-06-1942 RNAS 880S Stretton 04-09-1942 ASTH 03-10-1942 hook fitt RNAS Lee on Solent 28-10-1942 808S Machrihanish 12-1942 to 01-1943 768S Abbotsinch hook pulled out Argus Cat Y1 03-03-1944 (Squadron Leader GY Hooper RNZN) Into barrier Ravager Cat Y1 01-09-1944 (Mid RP Hubble)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3619
s/n W3619
c/n 1914
VA (Supermarine)
W 3619
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 7 December 1942. Was being flown by No. 403 (F) Sdn. pilot on 11 February 1943, when it struck a tree on a Rhubarb mission, near Bayeaux, France. Returned to base and was repaired. Transferred to Free French AF on 19 January 1945.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 01-08-1941 39MU 05-08-1941 Starveall Farm dispersal 315S 29-08-1941 307USAAF 12-09-1942 350S 23-09-1942 401S 07-12-1942 VASM 16-09-1942 ? mods 64S eng fire crash-landed Langley Sussex 11-08-1943 DeH ARF 02-12-1943 315S 24-05-1944 HAL 12-07-1944 Armee de l'Air GC2/18 19-01-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3620
s/n W3620
c/n 1915
VA (Supermarine)
W 3620
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-08-1941 45MU 20-08-1941 54S 22-08-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe believed shot down by Bf109 nr Gravelines 04-09-1941 Pilot Officer M M Evans killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3621
s/n W3621
c/n 1916
VA (Supermarine)
W 3621
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 11 June 1943. Category B damage in a flying accident on 27 March 1944. Repaired by de Havilland, returned to RAF.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-08-1941 39MU 03-08-1941 609S 07-08-1941 DeH 31-05-1942 VASM 21-10-1942 fuel syst mods wing stiff M46 install 504S 29-03-1943 416S 11-06-1943 FACB 27-03-1944 ? DeH 350S 28-03-1944 61OTU 16-09-1944 flew into ground after takeoff at night Montford Bridge CE 19-10-1944 SOC
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3622
s/n W3622
c/n 1924
VA (Supermarine)
W 3622
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-08-1941 39MU 09-08-1941 602S 14-08-1941 Missing from sweep to Abbeville 20-09-1941 Flight Sergeant C J Squibb killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3623
s/n W3623
c/n 1931
VA (Supermarine)
W 3623
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-08-1941 39MU 09-08-1941 602S 16-08-1941 Missing from sweep 12-10-1941 FH31.20 Flight Sergeant A Meredith PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF Mk Vb serial W3624
s/n W3624
c/n 1932
VA (Supermarine)
W 3624
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-08-1941 39MU 09-08-1941 603S 16-08-1941 ASTH 01-09-1941 72S 02-01-1942 ros 23-01-1942 504S 08-07-1942 501S 19-10-1942 Shorts Harland 19-03-1943 VASM 21-05-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 131S 04-07-1943 602S 27-02-1944 118S 13-03-1944 616S 03-10-1944 SOC 10-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3625
s/n W3625
c/n 1936
VA (Supermarine)
W 3625
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-08-1941 39MU 10-08-1941 609S 14-08-1941 Ran out of fuel and ditched 5m off Dover on sweep to Nieuport 27-09-1941 SOC 30-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3626
s/n W3626
c/n 1941
VA (Supermarine)
W 3626
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-08-1941 39MU 10-08-1941 41S 14-08-1941 501S 07-10-1941 ros 18-10-1941 145S 29-01-1942 350S 'MN-S' 10-02-1942 collision with W3525 landing Atcham 17-02-1942 Missing while escorting Hurricanes to Bruges presumed shot down by Fw190 01-06-1942 Flight Sergeant L J A Hansez killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3627
s/n W3627
c/n 1954
VA (Supermarine)
W 3627
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-08-1941 39MU 16-08-1941 71S 27-08-1941 Collided with W3963 and crashed FACE 15-11-1941 SOC 23-11-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3628
s/n W3628
c/n 1883
VA (Supermarine)
W 3628
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-07-1941 6MU 20-07-1941 603S 24-07-1941 ASTH 11-11-1941 crashed on del flt 17-12-1941 ASTH 611S 09-02-1942 315S 13-04-1942 flew into hill 20m from Preston Yorks 16-07-1942 SOC 25-07-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3629
s/n W3629
c/n 1875
VA (Supermarine)
W 3629
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-07-1941 6MU 16-07-1941 616S 22-07-1941 65S 06-10-1941 Believed shot down by flak ship off Dieppe while escorting Hurricanes to St.Saens 11-11-1941 Flight Sergeant G D Morcom RNZAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF LR Mk Vb serial W3630
s/n W3630
c/n 1884
VA (Supermarine)
W 3630
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Kuwait". Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 4 August 1941. Coded "KH*Z" when it flew target support for Operation 77 on 12 August 1941. Left this unit by October 1941.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-07-1941 6MU 20-07-1941 54S 27-07-1941 403S 04-08-1941 72S 20-10-1941 124S 17-11-1941 ros 28-11-1941 308S 26-07-1942 CAC ops 05-09-1942 Westland VASM 09-03-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 610S 04-07-1943 AST 03-05-1944 CGS 24-02-1945 sold scrap J.Dale
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3631
s/n W3631
c/n 1878
VA (Supermarine)
W 3631
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 15-07-1941 6MU 17-07-1941 603S 24-07-1941 332S 18-05-1942 DeH 31-05-1942 MM 26-07-1942 VASM 06-10-1942 fuel syst mods wing stiff 130S 17-03-1943 65S 31-03-1943 Shot down by flak north of Bethune went into the sea and rescued by Walrus 19-09-1943 SOC 28-09-1943 FH500.10
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3632
s/n W3632
c/n 1885
VA (Supermarine)
W 3632
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 15-07-1941 6MU 21-07-1941 603S 24-07-1941 54S 20-09-1941 124S 17-01-1942 5USAAF 06-08-1942 109Obs 28-02-1943 VASM 12-03-1943 mods 341S 16-06-1943 340S FFS 26-07-1943 1TEU 03-06-1944 57OTU 17-08-1944 FAAC 18-10-1944 SOC 29-11-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3633
s/n W3633
c/n 1879
VA (Supermarine)
W 3633
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-07-1941 8MU 17-07-1941 616S 22-07-1941 65S 06-10-1941 Damaged by Bf109 on sweep and engine cut abandoned 4m off Boulogne 21-10-1941 SOC 01-11-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3634
s/n W3634
c/n 1886
VA (Supermarine)
W 3634
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;402
Walker:
Named "March Brown". Used by No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 6 June 1943. Still with this unit (or 411 Squadron?) when it crashed near Leith Hill, Surrey on 19 October 1943. Lost control in clouds, struck high ground. This hill, near Gatwick, claimed several aircraft in bad weather during the war.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-07-1941 8MU 20-07-1941 145S 28-07-1941 41S 28-07-1941 332S 12-06-1942 CAC ops 21-07-1942 ros VASM 18-08-1942 mods AST 13-11-1942 312S 31-12-1942 VASM 03-04-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 402S 06-06-1943 Crashed after control lost in cloud Leith Hill Surrey CE 19-10-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3635
s/n W3635
c/n 1881
VA (Supermarine)
W 3635
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-07-1941 8MU 19-07-1941 145S 24-07-1941 41S 28-07-1941 AST Damaged by Bf109 and abandoned nr Merville while escorting Blenheims to Lille 07-08-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3636
s/n W3636
c/n 1882
VA (Supermarine)
W 3636
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-07-1941 8MU 19-07-1941 145S 24-07-1941 41S 28-07-1941 CAC ops 25-07-1942 ros 334USAAF 26-10-1942 Collided with EN915 and crashed Woodside Green Essex CE 27-11-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3637
s/n W3637
c/n 1896
VA (Supermarine)
W 3637
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-07-1941 8MU 30-07-1941 610S 22-08-1941 ASTH 30-09-1941 302S 30-01-1942 Sank on approach hit ground and swung on landing Harrowbeer FACB 08-04-1942 Westland SOC CE 29-04-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3638
s/n W3638
c/n 1891
VA (Supermarine)
W 3638
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 411 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 8 January 1943. To No. 411 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 25 March 1943. Left this unit by June 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-07-1941 9MU 20-07-1941 602S 25-03-1942 PPSM 06-06-1942 411S 08-01-1943 402S 25-03-1943 19S 02-04-1943 65S 30-06-1943 26S 22-05-1944 Bellylanded FAAC 18-12-1944 recat E SOC 01-01-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3639
s/n W3639
c/n 1897
VA (Supermarine)
W 3639
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;411
Walker:
Served with No. 411 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 2 October 1941, coded "DB*B". Lost in combat with enemy fighters off Calais, France on 16 December 1941. Pilot S.D. Chamberlain was killed.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-07-1941 9MU 28-07-1941 ? 411S 02-08-1941 ? ASTE 06-08-1941 Shot down by Bf109 nr Calais on convoy patrol CE SOC 16-12-1941 Pilot Officer S D Chamberlain killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3640
s/n W3640
c/n 1892
VA (Supermarine)
W 3640
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-07-1941 9MU 20-07-1941 602S 01-08-1941 485S 21-11-1941 308S 01-04-1942 AST 65S 12-03-1943 130S 31-03-1943 349S 19-07-1943 VASM 17-11-1943 fuel syst mods 277S 04-03-1944 AST 02-06-1944 53OTU 05-01-1945 overshot landing crashed Hibaldstow CE 20-02-1945 SOC 21-02-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3641
s/n W3641
c/n 1898
VA (Supermarine)
W 3641
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 7 June 1942. Left this unit by August 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-07-1941 9MU 20-07-1941 602S 31-07-1941 610S 16-11-1941 AST 20-12-1941 M45M install FAAC 22-02-1942 421S 07-06-1942 Scottish Aviation 25-08-1942 331S 02-04-1943 349S 01-08-1943 VASM 17-11-1943 fuel syst mods 277S 25-03-1944 290S 11-01-1945 FAAC 03-09-1945 Reid Sigrist refurb to Portugal 25-08-1947
last update: 2025-February-051947-August-25 Sold as Surplus Sold to Portugal. 2019-08-20
Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3642
s/n W3642
c/n 1902
VA (Supermarine)
W 3642
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-07-1941 9MU 30-07-1941 602S 10-08-1941 Spun into Channel during dogfight while escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe 17-09-1941 Pilot Officer A R Tidman killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3643
s/n W3643
c/n 1903
VA (Supermarine)
W 3643
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-07-1941 6MU 01-08-1941 485S Damaged by Bf109 nr Mardyek and abandoned over Channel while escorting Blenheims to Hazebrouck 29-08-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3644
s/n W3644
c/n 2116
VA (Supermarine)
W 3644
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-09-1941 ? 'Lytham St Annes' 6MU 16-07-1941 AST 01-08-1941 19S 'QV-J' 16-04-1942 Missing presumed shot down by Fw190 while escorting Bostons to Morlaix 23-06-1942 FH76.50 Flight Sergeant A L Ridings killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3645
s/n W3645
c/n 1907
VA (Supermarine)
W 3645
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;121
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-07-1941 6MU 03-08-1941 485S 15-08-1941 CB ops 18-12-1941 ASTH 121S 30-04-1942 Ditched after attack on shipping off Walcheren 31-05-1942 F/Lt T W Allen killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3646
s/n W3646
c/n 1919
VA (Supermarine)
W 3646
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-08-1941 6MU 05-08-1941 452S 16-08-1941 GAL 21-09-1941 145S 22-11-1941 350S 11-02-1942 VASM 29-07-1942 mods FAAC 26-08-1942 ros FACB 18-11-1942 DeH Cunliffe-Owen 31-05-1943 Cv Seafire Ib reserialled NX965 cancel later Cunliffe-Owen 11-08-1943 RNDA 19-01-1944 899S 02-1944 886S 03-1944 761S Henstridge 07-1944 to 09-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3647
s/n W3647
c/n 1910
VA (Supermarine)
W 3647
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 21 November 1942. With No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 3 February 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 01-08-1941 6MU 02-08-1941 611S 09-08-1941 ASTE 14-09-1941 603S 22-10-1941 322S 15-04-1942 FAAC 23-06-1942 ros 421S 21-11-1942 412S 03-02-1943 HAL 10-03-1943 VASM 15-08-1943 mods 277S 04-03-1944 CAC ops 10-11-1944 SOC 17-02-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3648
s/n W3648
c/n 1918
VA (Supermarine)
W 3648
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-08-1941 6MU 03-08-1941 609S 09-08-1941 72S 20-08-1941 FACB 04-01-1942 AST VASM 08-09-1942 fuel syst mods wing stiff MkIII IFF bomb carrier 222MU 18-12-1942 Empire Cormorant 03-01-1944 Portugal 17-02-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3649
s/n W3649
c/n 1912
VA (Supermarine)
W 3649
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 01-08-1941 6MU 05-08-1941 602S 16-08-1941 303S 28-10-1941 485S 'FV-B' 24-12-1941 Missing from sweep off Gap Gris Nez 28-03-1942 G/C F V Beamish DSO DFC AFC killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3650
s/n W3650
c/n 1920
VA (Supermarine)
W 3650
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 12 September 1941. Coded "KH*X". Repaired on site 20 September 1941, no details. Left this unit by March 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-08-1941 6MU 03-08-1941 611S 09-08-1941 403S 12-09-1941 ros 20-09-1941 71S 09-03-1942 Damaged by Bf109 CB cannibalised 27-04-1942 SOC CE 30-04-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3651
s/n W3651
c/n 1921
VA (Supermarine)
W 3651
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-08-1941 6MU 02-08-1941 609S 09-08-1941 Shot down by Bf109 nr Gravelines while escorting Blenheims to Choques 21-08-1941 FH27.45 Flight Sergeant E W Pollard killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3652
s/n W3652
c/n 1923
VA (Supermarine)
W 3652
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Blue Charm". Used by No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 3 June 1943. Left this unit by 7 June 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-08-1941 6MU 08-08-1941 485S 15-08-1941 HAL 26-09-1941 416S 03-06-1943 118S 07-06-1943 FACB 15-06-1943 Scottish Aviation 129S 25-01-1944 FACE 08-03-1944 LMS CGS 15-10-1944 SOC 25-10-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3653
s/n W3653
c/n 1925
VA (Supermarine)
W 3653
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 11 August 1941, 5 days after first flight. Left this unit by 25 August 1941, lost on 17 September 1941.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-08-1941 6MU 07-08-1941 403S 11-08-1941 54S 25-08-1941 Damaged by Bf109 on bomber escort nr Hardelot and ditched 17-09-1941 FH46.45
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3654
s/n W3654
c/n 1926
VA (Supermarine)
W 3654
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-08-1941 8MU 07-08-1941 616S 16-08-1941 129S 05-10-1941 65S 31-10-1941 41S 'EB-V' 06-01-1942 Missing while escorting Bostons to Hazebrouck 12-04-1942 FH202.30
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3655
s/n W3655
c/n 1930
VA (Supermarine)
W 3655
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-08-1941 8MU 07-08-1941 616S 16-08-1941 Engine cut while escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe ditched off Bexhill 27-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3656
s/n W3656
c/n 1934
VA (Supermarine)
W 3656
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-08-1941 8MU 10-08-1941 92S 16-08-1941 AST 23-08-1941 122S 22-11-1941 FAAC 28-02-1942 ros 167S 12-04-1942 FACB 14-08-1942 Westland VASM 09-03-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 118S 27-05-1943 64S 25-09-1943 CA ops 12-06-1944 ASTH 1668CU 29-11-1944 to 5842M 12SoTT 06-03-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3657
s/n W3657
c/n 1937
VA (Supermarine)
W 3657
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-08-1941 8MU 10-08-1941 92S 16-08-1941 GAL 07-10-1941 308S 12-09-1942 Shot down by Fw190s while escorting Venturas to Courtrai 03-02-1943 FH219.25
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3697
s/n W3697
c/n 1899
VA (Supermarine)
W 3697
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-07-1941 45MU 02-08-1941 243S 23-09-1941 ros 26-11-1941 65S 'YT-S' 31-12-1941 GAL 07-08-1942 VASM 20-11-1942 fuel syst mods wing stiff 313S 04-04-1943 66S 04-07-1943 FAAC 13-08-1943 ros 165S 13-09-1943 308S 01-10-1943 FACE 18-11-1943 DeH
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3698
s/n W3698
c/n 1982
VA (Supermarine)
W 3698
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-08-1941 45MU 22-08-1941 315S 30-08-1941 Missing escorting Hurricanes to Bourbourg Canal nr Bergues presumed shot down by flak 23-11-1941 Flight Sergeant G Kosmalski killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3699
s/n W3699
c/n 1983
VA (Supermarine)
W 3699
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-08-1941 45MU 22-08-1941 308S 09-09-1941 ros 05-11-1941 316S 13-12-1941 Bounced on landing and u/c collapsed Northolt 11-01-1942 SOC 14-01-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3700
s/n W3700
c/n 1987
VA (Supermarine)
W 3700
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-08-1941 45MU 25-08-1941 crashed on del flt to 131S 09-01-1942 engine failed struck tree in force-landing nr Criccieth N Wales CE 18-04-1942 ASTE SOC 26-04-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3701
s/n W3701
c/n 1988
VA (Supermarine)
W 3701
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-08-1941 45MU 26-08-1941 306S 'UZ-G' 04-09-1941 Shot down by Bf109 while escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe 17-09-1941 FH14.30
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3702
s/n W3702
c/n 1989
VA (Supermarine)
W 3702
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-08-1941 45MU 25-08-1941 308S 10-09-1941 HAL 22-09-1941 302S 09-12-1941 FAAC 12-01-1943 ros VASM 28-06-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff S Type pt MkIII IFF bomb carrier 501S 24-10-1943 501S Shot down by AA nr Caen 12-07-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3703
s/n W3703
c/n 2002
VA (Supermarine)
W 3703
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-08-1941 37MU 27-08-1941 501S 19-09-1941 FACE 05-02-1942 ros 111S 18-03-1942 Collided with BL645 in cloud and abandoned 0.5m W of Frinton Essex 18-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3704
s/n W3704
c/n 2003
VA (Supermarine)
W 3704
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-08-1941 37MU 28-08-1941 72S 19-09-1941 Missing presumed shot down by Bf109 nr Dunkerque during sweep 25-10-1941 Pilot Officer Falkiner missing
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3705
s/n W3705
c/n 2019
VA (Supermarine)
W 3705
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-08-1941 37MU 28-08-1941 609S 22-10-1941 FAAC 27-03-1942 HAL 313S 28-07-1942 340S 'GW-X' 01-08-1942 Shot down by Fw190 nr Cayeux while escorting B-17s to Rouen 05-09-1942 FH177.10 Adj V J Dubourgel killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3706
s/n W3706
c/n 2020
VA (Supermarine)
W 3706
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-08-1941 37MU 01-09-1941 118S 16-09-1941 Shot down by flak off Ile St. Marcouf 15-11-1941 Flight Sergeant H Alexander killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF LR Mk Vb serial W3707
s/n W3707
c/n 1955
VA (Supermarine)
W 3707
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-08-1941 8MU 16-08-1941 609S 21-08-1941 AST 03-09-1941 74S 23-11-1941 FACB 18-03-1942 Shorts Harland M55M install 93S 06-10-1942 VASM 25-02-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 610S 15-05-1943 CAC ops 08-10-1943 ros 316S 29-11-1943 AST 21-04-1944 42OTU 27-09-1944 FAAC 18-10-1944 ros to 5931M 12SoTT 27-04-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3708
s/n W3708
c/n 1957
VA (Supermarine)
W 3708
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-08-1941 9MU 16-08-1941 71S 27-08-1941 Damaged by return fire from Ju88 and crashlanded Butley nr Orford 17-04-1942 ASTH SOC CE 18-04-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3709
s/n W3709
c/n 1962
VA (Supermarine)
W 3709
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-08-1941 9MU 18-08-1941 92S 28-08-1941 ASTH 23-09-1941 602S 29-01-1942 71S 03-04-1942 Dived into ground low flying nr Debden FACE 06-08-1942 SOC 21-08-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3710
s/n W3710
c/n 1963
VA (Supermarine)
W 3710
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-08-1941 9MU 18-08-1941 92S 28-08-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Ostend 03-10-1941 SOC 04-10-1941 Flight Sergeant H Cox killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3711
s/n W3711
c/n 1964
VA (Supermarine)
W 3711
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;121
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-08-1941 9MU 18-08-1941 603S 30-08-1941 CB ops 04-09-1941 ASTE Missing from ground attack mission to Knocke 07-12-1941 Flying Officer R F Patterson RCAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3712
s/n W3712
c/n 1911
VA (Supermarine)
W 3712
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 11 August 1941, 11 days after first flight. Left this unit by 25 August 1941, lost on 31 August 1941.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 31-07-1941 9MU 06-08-1941 403S 20-08-1941 54S 25-08-1941 FTR ops 31-08-1941 FH12.25
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3713
s/n W3713
c/n 1913
VA (Supermarine)
W 3713
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 01-08-1941 12MU 06-08-1941 41S 'EB-T' 11-08-1941 ros 17-03-1942 5USAAF 05-09-1942 317S 04-02-1943 HAL 17-05-1943 VASM 23-07-1943 fuel syst mods MkIII IFF 316S 'SZ-Z' 22-11-1943 63S 01-05-1944 FACA 08-07-1944 ros 57OTU 01-02-1945 struck tree night takeoff wheels up landing Boulmer CE 02-03-1945 Scottish Aviation 15-03-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3714
s/n W3714
c/n 1917
VA (Supermarine)
W 3714
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-08-1941 12MU 06-08-1941 610S 10-08-1941 129S 31-12-1941 CB ops 27-04-1942 ros 610S 19-05-1942 Overshot forced landing in bad weather on ferry flight Ludharn - GAL Hanworth Hatfield 26-05-1942 AST CE 31-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3715
s/n W3715
c/n 1927
VA (Supermarine)
W 3715
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-08-1941 12MU 10-08-1941 111S 18-08-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Hazebrouck 29-08-1941 SOC 01-09-1941 W/C J W Gillan DFC AFC killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3716
s/n W3716
c/n 1928
VA (Supermarine)
W 3716
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;111
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-08-1941 12MU 10-08-1941 111S 19-08-1941 Caught fire and dived into sea returning from sweep 21-07-1942 Pilot Officer L E Swatbridge RCAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3717
s/n W3717
c/n 1929
VA (Supermarine)
W 3717
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-08-1941 12MU 10-08-1941 111S 19-08-1941 Westland 19-10-1941 308S 09-12-1941 316S 13-12-1941 u/c collapsed on landing Heston FACB 03-05-1942 CE SOC 08-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3718
s/n W3718
c/n 1935
VA (Supermarine)
W 3718
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-08-1941 37MU 11-08-1941 306S 03-09-1941 303S 06-10-1941 316S 09-01-1942 4USAAF 06-08-1942 66S 12-10-1943 340S 'GW-T' 15-11-1943 239S 16-02-1944 26S 22-03-1944 278S 27-09-1944 53OTU 22-02-1945 stalled on approach Hibaldstow crashed CE 26-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3719
s/n W3719
c/n 1942
VA (Supermarine)
W 3719
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-08-1941 37MU 11-08-1941 41S 01-09-1941 ros 02-11-1941 Westland 08-06-1942 RNAS Stretton 06-09-1942 VASM 28-04-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 3501SU 08-08-1943 Ramrod escorting B-26s to Beaumont le Roger evening Shot down by fighter but evaded 22-08-1943 FH266.50
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3720
s/n W3720
c/n 1951
VA (Supermarine)
W 3720
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 24 February 1942. Hit the sea on Rhubarb mission, en route to Calais on 27 February 1942. Sgt. R. Bateman rescued.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-08-1941 37MU 14-08-1941 222S 02-09-1941 ros 07-11-1941 403S 24-02-1942 Flew into sea nr Dover 27-02-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3721
s/n W3721
c/n 1952
VA (Supermarine)
W 3721
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-08-1941 37MU 14-08-1941 266S 26-09-1941 SOC 02-1944 bboc 62OTU 08-02-1945 SOC 14-06-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3722
s/n W3722
c/n 1953
VA (Supermarine)
W 3722
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-08-1941 37MU 24-08-1941 452S 07-09-1941 ros 25-09-1941 501S 12-10-1941 ASTH 11-11-1941 118S 26-04-1942 Damaged by Fw109s and crashlanded at Manston 09-05-1942 FH49.35 Flight Sergeant M B Green killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3723
s/n W3723
c/n 1961
VA (Supermarine)
W 3723
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-08-1941 38MU 19-08-1941 222S 24-08-1941 Missing escorting Hampdens to Lille 27-08-1941 F/Lt J C Martin killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3724
s/n W3724
c/n 1966
VA (Supermarine)
W 3724
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-08-1941 MU 19-08-1941 306S crashed during formation practise nr Ruislip Lido Middlesex 11-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3725
s/n W3725
c/n 1967
VA (Supermarine)
W 3725
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-08-1941 38MU 19-08-1941 602S 28-08-1941 Missing presumed shot down by Bf109 while escorting Blenheims to Gosnay 21-09-1941 Flight Sergeant A R Hedger killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3726
s/n W3726
c/n 1968
VA (Supermarine)
W 3726
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-08-1941 38MU 19-08-1941 602S 22-08-1941 222S 24-08-1941 FTR ops 08-03-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3756
s/n W3756
c/n 1938
VA (Supermarine)
W 3756
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-08-1941 38MU 11-08-1941 602S 28-08-1941 ros 25-09-1941 R-R mods 15-11-1941 118S 11-05-1942 GAL 27-06-1942 RNAS 885S Lee on Solent 10-09-1942 hook fitt 880S Machrihanish unable to lower u/c wheels up landing Cat X 08-10-1942 (Squadron Leader JWG Blacker RNZN) 899S from 15-12-1942 To Lee 23-01-1943 Arbroath to 899S Hatston 24-01-1943 to 02-1943 768S Machrihanish/Ayr/Abbotsinch 04-1943 Port fairing damaged Argus 19-02-1944 Stbd fairing damaged 20-02-1944 Argus (both Squadron Leader PG Adams) Scottish Aviation 19-03-1944 761S Henstridge 31-05-1944 Hit by AR318 15-10-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3757
s/n W3757
c/n 1933
VA (Supermarine)
W 3757
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-08-1941 45MU 11-08-1941 111S 21-08-1941 Missing escorting Hampdens to Lille 21-09-1941 Flight Sergeant K J Haine killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3758
s/n W3758
c/n 1939
VA (Supermarine)
W 3758
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-08-1941 45MU 12-08-1941 54S 22-08-1941 124S 08-11-1941 Missing presumed shot down by fighters nr Lille claimed by JG26 27-04-1942 FH239.50 Flight Sergeant M J R Larcher killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3759
s/n W3759
c/n 1940
VA (Supermarine)
W 3759
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-08-1941 45MU 10-08-1941 ASTH 15-08-1941 129S 02-11-1941 CB ops 07-09-1942 AST 316S 24-01-1943 306S 16-03-1943 FAAC 21-09-1943 350S 26-03-1944 53OTU 12-10-1944 Portsmouth Aviation 02-10-1945 SOC 05-10-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3760
s/n W3760
c/n 1947
VA (Supermarine)
W 3760
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-08-1941 DTD VA 15-08-1941 floats install wts and CG Worthy Down 01-11-1942 Tare 5851lb AUW 7418lb land 6717lb CRD MAEE Helensburgh 11-11-1942 Super 31-12-1942 perf trials at AUW with M45 at +9lb boost 02-03-1943 52MU 27-09-1943 Penrith Castle 06-10-1943 Middle East 30-10-1943 SOC 28-01-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3761
s/n W3761
c/n 1948
VA (Supermarine)
W 3761
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-08-1941 37MU 15-08-1941 315S 31-08-1941 71S 29-04-1942 Ran out of fuel while covering Dieppe raid and abandoned over Channel 19-08-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3762
s/n W3762
c/n 1949
VA (Supermarine)
W 3762
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-08-1941 37MU 15-08-1941 92S 10-09-1941 Missing from sweep to Le Treport First encounter with Fw190s 02-10-1941 Flight Sergeant K G Port killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3763
s/n W3763
c/n 1950
VA (Supermarine)
W 3763
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;71
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-08-1941 37MU 15-08-1941 71S 10-09-1941 Missing from bomber escort 17-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3764
s/n W3764
c/n 1956
VA (Supermarine)
W 3764
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-08-1941 37MU 17-08-1941 306S 07-09-1941 HAL 17-09-1941 303S 06-10-1941 315S 15-03-1942 Engine cut on approach undershot and hit tree and u/c collapsed Woodvale FACB 16-06-1942 to 3386M 11SoTT 21-09-1953 rtp 14-10-1953
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3765
s/n W3765
c/n 1958
VA (Supermarine)
W 3765
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-08-1941 37MU 19-08-1941 306S 07-09-1941 HAL 16-09-1941 303S 18-09-1941 FACB 13-03-1942 302S 29-12-1942 308S 25-06-1943 132S 27-07-1943 CAC ops 27-09-1943 Scottish Aviation 09-11-1943 345S 03-04-1944 57OTU 17-06-1944 FAAC 09-02-1945 u/c collapsed taxying at Woodvale 26-06-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3766
s/n W3766
c/n 1959
VA (Supermarine)
W 3766
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-08-1941 8MU 18-08-1941 609S 22-08-1941 GAL 09-10-1941 312S 29-01-1942 AST 05-07-1942 5USAAF 07-09-1942 222S 21-01-1943 64S 31-03-1943 118S 25-09-1943 Scottish Aviation 19-10-1943 61OTU 02-08-1944 SOC 11-05-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3767
s/n W3767
c/n 1960
VA (Supermarine)
W 3767
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-08-1941 8MU 18-08-1941 609S 22-08-1941 Damaged by Bf109 and abandoned over Channel while escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe 17-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3768
s/n W3768
c/n 1969
VA (Supermarine)
W 3768
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Higham Ferrers-Irthlingborough". Used by No. 441 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 27 February 1944 for training, from Digby.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-08-1941 CRD DeH Airscrews 23-08-1941 501S 15-09-1941 AST 14-06-1942 93S 09-07-1942 VASM 01-05-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 504S 27-08-1943 313S 22-09-1943 441S 27-02-1944 Scottish Aviation 20-03-1944 350S 26-06-1944 57OTU 23-07-1944 Flew into sea attacking target on Boulmer ranges FACB 12-12-1944 SOC 18-12-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3769
s/n W3769
c/n 1965
VA (Supermarine)
W 3769
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-08-1941 8MU 18-08-1941 222S 30-08-1941 131S 10-05-1942 AST 30-05-1942 RNAS 880S Stretton 05-09-1942 ASTH 10-09-1942 hook fitt Lee-on-Solent 27-09-1942 884S 10-1942 (unmod) To Machrihanish 09-03-1943 768S Abbotsinch hook pulled out hit barrier Argus 20-02-1944 (Squadron Leader JF Hollingsworth) Scottish Aviation 04-08-1944 761S Henstridge 02-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3770
s/n W3770
c/n 1973
VA (Supermarine)
W 3770
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-08-1941 8MU 19-08-1941 41S 22-08-1941 340S 'ML-R' Sweep Boulogne pm Shot down by Fw190s of JG26 10-04-1942 FH140.30 W/C M L Robinson DSO DFC killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3771
s/n W3771
c/n 1974
VA (Supermarine)
W 3771
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-08-1941 9MU 18-08-1941 72S 30-08-1941 ASTH 09-09-1941 610S 30-11-1941 CB ops 10-03-1942 Scottish Aviation 41S 08-11-1942 303S 14-03-1943 315S 06-06-1943 19S 26-06-1943 602S 10-07-1943 345S 10-04-1944 Missing from sweep to Evreux presumed collided with AA847 or hit by flak at Vernon 10-07-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3772
s/n W3772
c/n 1975
VA (Supermarine)
W 3772
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-08-1941 9MU 22-08-1941 54S 07-09-1941 Missing presumed shot down by Bf109 nr Mardyele while escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe 17-09-1941 FH9.00 S/Ldr N Orton DFC killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3773
s/n W3773
c/n 1976
VA (Supermarine)
W 3773
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-08-1941 9MU 20-08-1941 111S 30-08-1941 [306S 02-07-1942 ] Missing escorting Blenheims to Hazebrouck 20-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3774
s/n W3774
c/n 1980
VA (Supermarine)
W 3774
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-08-1941 9MU 22-08-1941 485S 02-09-1941 124S 03-05-1942 FAAC 20-06-1942 ros 306S 02-07-1942 VASM 26-08-1942 mods 308S 22-11-1942 air collision with P8746 crashed Stockwell Potato Farm Yorks CE 14-05-1943 FH394.15
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3775
s/n W3775
c/n 1981
VA (Supermarine)
W 3775
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-08-1941 CRD VA 23-08-1941 RAE 03-03-1942 VHF BA LR ASV radio trials ETPS 28-04-1942 radio clearance trials RNAS 880S Stretton 07-09-1942 AST 24-09-1942 hook fitt Lee on Solent 11-10-1942 Machrihanish 17-10-1942 Lee 24-10-1942 808S Machrihanish 11-1942 Landed in gusty wind bounced drifted off runway o/t Machrihanish Cat Y 09-02-1943 (Squadron Leader WJF Beever) PD 20-05-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3795
s/n W3795
c/n 1977
VA (Supermarine)
W 3795
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-08-1941 33MU 21-08-1941 222S 29-08-1941 FAAC 27-01-1942 ros 303S 'RF-N' 11-09-1942 to 3655M 09-04-1943 at 6FtrWingUSAAF
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3796
s/n W3796
c/n 1978
VA (Supermarine)
W 3796
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-08-1941 33MU 21-08-1941 41S 29-08-1941 ros 04-09-1941 145S 18-11-1941 350S 07-02-1942 FACB 20-03-1942 ASTH RNAS Lee on Solent 05-09-1942 ASTH 18-09-1942 hook fitt Machrihanish 10-10-1942 884S 10-1942 (unmod) 899S Hatston 01-1943 to 02-1943 DAWT Lee (Mjr RC Hay RM) 08-1943 768S Machrihanish/Ayr 07-1943 Over side Ravager Cat Z2 25-11-1943 (Squadron Leader PE Love OK)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3797
s/n W3797
c/n 1979
VA (Supermarine)
W 3797
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 20-08-1941 33MU 21-08-1941 91S 29-08-1941 CAC ops 10-01-1942 5USAAF 06-08-1942 air collision with W3505 crashed Chetwynd Salop CE 14-02-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3798
s/n W3798
c/n 1990
VA (Supermarine)
W 3798
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-08-1941 33MU 25-08-1941 308S 09-09-1941 HAL 28-10-1941 316S 13-12-1941 AST 04-06-1942 129S 19-08-1942 66S 19-02-1943 234S 19-04-1943 CA ops 03-05-1943 ros 312S 29-06-1943 to 4263M 30-10-1943 CE 28-01-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3799
s/n W3799
c/n 1992
VA (Supermarine)
W 3799
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-08-1941 33MU 27-08-1941 54S 07-09-1941 124S 18-11-1941 FACE 19-02-1942 SOC 04-03-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3800
s/n W3800
c/n 1991
VA (Supermarine)
W 3800
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-08-1941 39MU 25-08-1941 129S 07-09-1941 AST 24-09-1941 Half starboard wing shot away by flak attacking ships off Ostend and abandoned nr Mart1esham Heath SOC 12-02-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3801
s/n W3801
c/n 1995
VA (Supermarine)
W 3801
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 23-08-1941 39MU 27-08-1941 71S 02-09-1941 Missing from sweep to St.Omer 07-09-1941 Flying Officer E Q Tobin killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3802
s/n W3802
c/n 2004
VA (Supermarine)
W 3802
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-08-1941 39MU 29-08-1941 611S 10-09-1941 64S 14-11-1941 Shot down by Fw190 15m SE of Calais 28-03-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3803
s/n W3803
c/n 2009
VA (Supermarine)
W 3803
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-08-1941 39MU 29-08-1941 129S 07-09-1941 154S 12-02-1942 FAAC 08-03-1942 ros 08-06-1942 FACB 15-09-1942 AST VASM 09-06-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff MkIII IFF bomb carrier 222MU 05-12-1943 Dromore 09-01-1944 Portugal 28-01-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3804
s/n W3804
c/n 2010
VA (Supermarine)
W 3804
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;121
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-08-1941 39MU 29-08-1941 611S 10-09-1941 154S 12-02-1942 121S 26-03-1942 Shot down by Fw190 while escorting Bostons to St.Omer 26-04-1942 FH53.40
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3814
s/n W3814
c/n 1984
VA (Supermarine)
W 3814
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 21-08-1941 8MU 22-08-1941 111S 25-08-1941 FAAC 03-02-1942 ros Damaged by flak Le Treport during Dieppe raid and abandoned 19-08-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3815
s/n W3815
c/n 1985
VA (Supermarine)
W 3815
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-08-1941 8MU 24-08-1941 611S 29-08-1941 64S 14-11-1941 GAL 21-03-1942 FAC 05-04-1942 ros 4USAAF 07-06-1942 332S 08-11-1942 FAAC 02-12-1942 LMS 58OTU 23-03-1945 SOC to 5388M 17-07-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3816
s/n W3816
c/n 1986
VA (Supermarine)
W 3816
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 22-08-1941 8MU 24-08-1941 611S 29-08-1941 Shot down by Bf109s nr Mardyek escorting Blenheims to Hazebrouck 20-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3817
s/n W3817
c/n 1993
VA (Supermarine)
W 3817
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Wellingborough". Used by No. 417 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 6 February 1942. Left this unit by April 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 23-08-1941 8MU 27-08-1941 92S 01-09-1941 417S 06-02-1942 242S 18-04-1942 243S 06-06-1942 Scottish Aviation 04-07-1942 501S 'SD-O' 09-11-1942 FAAC 24-03-1944 DeH recat E bboc 25-08-1944 17FTS 07-10-1944 Swung on landing and wing hit ground Atcham FACB 09-08-1945 SOC 18-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3818
s/n W3818
c/n 1994
VA (Supermarine)
W 3818
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 23-08-1941 8MU 25-08-1941 611S 29-08-1941 64S 14-11-1941 316S 20-04-1942 308S 29-04-1942 DeH 25-05-1942 222MU 25-10-1942 Narhagus 19-12-1942 SOC 17-03-1943 USSR
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3819
s/n W3819
c/n 2001
VA (Supermarine)
W 3819
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-08-1941 9MU 27-08-1941 71S 10-09-1941 SOC Castle Bromwich CE 18-04-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3820
s/n W3820
c/n 2006
VA (Supermarine)
W 3820
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-08-1941 9MU 27-08-1941 308S 09-09-1941 316S 13-12-1941 Ditched 15m N of Fecamp returning from ground attack mission CE 20-02-1942 Flight Sergeant W Kopa killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3821
s/n W3821
c/n 2007
VA (Supermarine)
W 3821
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-08-1941 9MU 27-08-1941 452S 11-09-1941 Tyre burst on landing ground looped and tipped up Redhill 28-10-1941 not repaired CAC 17-01-1942 SOC 25-01-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3822
s/n W3822
c/n 2008
VA (Supermarine)
W 3822
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;403
Walker:
Named "Zanzibar II". Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 12 September 1941. Coded "KH*Q". Stalled and crashed on 14 October 1941. Originally Category E, but repaired, and back in service with No. 129 Squadron, RAF by 19 August 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-08-1941 9MU 28-08-1941 403S 12-09-1941 stalled off turn into wind crashed Martlesham Heath CE 14-10-1941 ros SOC cancel 12-11-1941 129S 19-08-1942 602S 29-11-1942 129S 22-01-1943 66S 19-02-1943 234S 'AZ-Y' 19-04-1943 312S 29-06-1943 AST 25-04-1944 1688Flt 29-09-1944 SOC 27-06-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3823
s/n W3823
c/n 2011
VA (Supermarine)
W 3823
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Holt I". Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF,from 12 September 1941. Coded "KH*S". Left this unit by November 1941. To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 29 April 1942. To No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 8 May 1942. Left this unit by 24 May 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-08-1941 9MU 29-08-1941 403S 12-09-1941 Scottish Aviation 06-11-1941 402S 29-04-1942 412S 08-05-1942 131S 24-05-1942 VASM 09-06-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 302S 02-08-1943 CAC ops 18-08-1943 ros 315S 09-10-1943 64S 10-06-1944 CB ops 24-06-1944 AST 1AGS 05-12-1944 SOC 13-09-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3824
s/n W3824
c/n 2012
VA (Supermarine)
W 3824
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-08-1941 24MU 29-08-1941 129S 11-09-1941 Missing presumed shot down by Bf109s while escorting Blenheims to Mazingarbe 27-09-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3825
s/n W3825
c/n 2013
VA (Supermarine)
W 3825
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-08-1941 24MU 29-08-1941 308S 04-09-1941 ros 05-11-1941 316S 13-12-1941 CB ops 29-03-1942 ASTE 2USAAF 07-08-1942 65S 02-03-1943 130S 31-03-1943 349S 19-07-1943 Scottish Aviation 27-10-1943 Taxied into tractor Darley Moor 14-11-1944 AST 14-11-1944 CE SOC 08-01-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3826
s/n W3826
c/n 2014
VA (Supermarine)
W 3826
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 28-08-1941 24MU 29-08-1941 308S 09-09-1941 FACB 17-09-1941 AST 122S 15-11-1941 CB ops 23-04-1942 recat E
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3827
s/n W3827
c/n 2015
VA (Supermarine)
W 3827
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-08-1941 24MU 29-08-1941 316S 17-10-1941 Abandoned after structural failure nr Churchstanton Somerset FACE 26-03-1942 SOC
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3828
s/n W3828
c/n 2016
VA (Supermarine)
W 3828
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-08-1941 24MU 30-08-1941 266S 13-09-1941 154S 08-03-1942 ASTH 06-05-1942 309USAAF 30-07-1942 340S 12-03-1943 LMS 66S 11-10-1943 340S 15-11-1943 FACA 26-11-1943 ros 350S CB ops 27-06-1944 DeH 1AGS 10-03-1945 engine failed wheels up landing on beach Grange over Sands Lancs CE 14-12-1945 SOC 09-01-1946
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3829
s/n W3829
c/n 2017
VA (Supermarine)
W 3829
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-08-1941 37MU 30-08-1941 611S 27-09-1941 64S 14-11-1941 152S 20-02-1942 313S 08-06-1942 222S 01-08-1942 242S 11-08-1943 331S 01-10-1943 VASM 16-10-1943 fuel syst mods 350S 20-11-1943 CAC ops 19-09-1944 ? ros ECFS 11-11-1944 ? SOC scrap 16-11-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3830
s/n W3830
c/n 2023
VA (Supermarine)
W 3830
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;234
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-08-1941 37MU 03-09-1941 234S 01-10-1941 Engine cut forcelanded on Alderney 02-11-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3831
s/n W3831
c/n 2024
VA (Supermarine)
W 3831
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-08-1941 37MU 31-08-1941 302S 11-10-1941 FAAC 11-03-1942 ros 316S 05-04-1942 FACB 27-07-1942 AST VASM 03-03-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff HAL 03-05-1943 Cv PRXIII M32 RNDA 03-03-1944 886S 21-03-1944 761S Henstridge 03-1944 718S Henstridge 09-1944 to 11-1944 Flapless landing overshot through boundary fence 28-10 44 (Lt HE Kelly RCN)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3832
s/n W3832
c/n 2032
VA (Supermarine)
W 3832
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 01-09-1941 37MU 06-09-1941 118S 16-09-1941 Collided with AA740 over West Grimstead Wilts on del flt CE 11-02-1942 SOC 23-02-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3833
s/n W3833
c/n 2035
VA (Supermarine)
W 3833
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-09-1941 37MU 07-09-1941 603S 27-12-1941 FAAC 22-02-1942 ros 332S 29-04-1942 Westland 17-06-1942 believed hit ground attacking train nr Bruges 24-07-1942 Flight Sergeant E R Malm killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3834
s/n W3834
c/n 2033
VA (Supermarine)
W 3834
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
A presentation aircraft, originally named "Holt XII". With No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 10 March 1943. To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 23 May 1943. With No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF when it was enscribed "Corps of Imperial Frontiersmen", on 13 June 1943, the third aircraft to carry this name. Coded "YO*Q". Regular pilot was Flight Lieutenant T.K. Ibbotson from Radisson, Saskatchewan. Flew 10 bomber escort missions, 13 to 29 June 1943. To No. 3501 Servicing Unit on 7 July, returned 9 July 1943. 4 more escort and sweep missions in July, including 19 July, when one Bf 109 and one Fw 190 were claimed. Ibbotson killed in motorcycle accident on 31 July 1943, aircraft passed to Flight Lieutenant O.M. Mahaffy of Toronto. 21 escort and sweep missions flown in August and September 1943. Reported damaged in November 1943, left the squadron at this time. Later used for training, survived the war, and was struck off on 17 September 1945.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-09-1941 38MU 05-09-1941 266S 'UO-P' 13-09-1941 154S 23-02-1942 FAAC 12-04-1942 ASTE M45M install 5USAAF 06-08-1942 421S 10-03-1943 416S 23-05-1943 401S 01-06-1943 [126Airfield 10-08-1943 ] HAL 12-11-1943 1659CU 05-01-1945 SOC 17-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05
Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3835
s/n W3835
c/n 2034
VA (Supermarine)
W 3835
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-09-1941 38MU 05-09-1941 234S 13-09-1941 Westland 14-06-1942 VASM 29-08-1942 52OTU 29-01-1944 2TEU 17-06-1944 Swung while taxying and hit air raid shelter Hibaldstow 16-04-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3836
s/n W3836
c/n 2036
VA (Supermarine)
W 3836
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 03-09-1941 38MU 07-09-1941 266S 13-09-1941 243S 23-07-1942 FACA 04-10-1942 ros 65S 02-03-1943 130S 31-03-1943 349S 01-08-1943 Scottish Aviation 27-10-1943 26S 03-04-1944 41OTU 08-03-1945 58OTU 22-03-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3837
s/n W3837
c/n 2040
VA (Supermarine)
W 3837
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-09-1941 38MU 07-09-1941 266S 13-09-1941 312S 07-06-1942 243S 02-09-1942 Scottish Aviation 19-11-1942 66S 12-05-1943 312S 29-06-1943 FAAC 26-08-1943 ros 504S 06-10-1943 67GrpUSAAF 06-01-1944 AST 10-03-1944 53OTU 05-09-1944 SOC 22-05-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3838
s/n W3838
c/n 2045
VA (Supermarine)
W 3838
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-09-1941 38MU 07-09-1941 611S 15-09-1941 Shot down by Bf109s in Channel on ASR escort 27-10-1941 Pilot Officer A Carey-Hill killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3839
s/n W3839
c/n 2046
VA (Supermarine)
W 3839
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Kettering District". Used by No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 20 August 1942. Was to be named "Corps of Imperial Frontiersmen", replacing BL598 . Destroyed in mid-air with BM346 on 17 February 1943, crashed near Stubb House, Yorkshire. Had 297:30 airframe time.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-09-1941 45MU 07-09-1941 611S 02-10-1941 64S 14-11-1941 AST 14-03-1942 403S 20-08-1942 air collision with BM346 crashed Stubb House Yorks CE 17-02-1943 FH297.30
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3840
s/n W3840
c/n 2055
VA (Supermarine)
W 3840
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-09-1941 45MU 07-09-1941 501S 16-09-1941 Shot down by Bf109s nr Cherbourg parachute failed 25-04-1942 Flight Sergeant M Rocovsky killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3841
s/n W3841
c/n 2051
VA (Supermarine)
W 3841
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;121
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-09-1941 45MU 07-09-1941 501S 16-09-1941 Westland 20-01-1942 72S 14-04-1942 121S 29-05-1942 Missing on sweep nr Ostend 16-06-1942 FH163.20 F/Lt J J Mooney killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3842
s/n W3842
c/n 2057
VA (Supermarine)
W 3842
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;501
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-09-1941 45MU 12-09-1941 501S 16-09-1941 71S 19-09-1941 ros 11-10-1941 Shot down by Fw109s nr Cherbourg 04-06-1942 FH214.45 Flight Sergeant B Strachen RCAF killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3843
s/n W3843
c/n 2058
VA (Supermarine)
W 3843
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "St. Kitts Nevis II". Used by No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 110 October 1942. To No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 31 January 1943. Left this unit by 3 May 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-09-1941 45MU 12-09-1941 501S 26-09-1941 ros 13-11-1941 41S 14-05-1942 412S 10-10-1942 421S 31-01-1943 504S 03-05-1943 317S 17-05-1943 350S 20-05-1943 345S 07-04-1944 Abandoned after engine lost glycol 12m E of St.Vaast-la Hougue Manche 06-06-1944 Lt J Joubert des Ouches killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3844
s/n W3844
c/n 2060
VA (Supermarine)
W 3844
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-09-1941 8MU 11-09-1941 234S 14-09-1941 ros 01-10-1941 302S 21-10-1941 Missing from recce over Channel 27-01-1942 SOC 02-02-1942 Pilot Officer Z Bednarski killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3845
s/n W3845
c/n 2064
VA (Supermarine)
W 3845
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;501
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-09-1941 8MU 11-09-1941 501S 17-09-1941 ASTH 16-10-1941 Missing from sweep to Hazebrouck 09-05-1942 FH204.50 Pilot Officer E W Gillespie killed American pilot with RCAF
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3846
s/n W3846
c/n 2065
VA (Supermarine)
W 3846
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-09-1941 8MU 11-09-1941 501S 17-09-1941 damaged ops 11-07-1942 RNAS 880S Stretton 01-09-1942 801S 10-1942 CB 10-01-1942 CBAF 10-11-1942 hook fitt RNAS Yeovilton 26-01-1943 879S from 03-1943 to 06-1943 Taxying in high wind Stretton accident Cat X 12-05-1943 (Lt RJ Clark) 886S 03-1944 761S Henstridge 06-1944 719S St.Merryn 07-1944 794S St.Merryn 02-01-1945 Heavy landing tyre burst a/c nosed over 25-05-1945 (Mid J Coles)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3847
s/n W3847
c/n 2066
VA (Supermarine)
W 3847
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-09-1941 8MU 11-09-1941 111S 22-09-1941 Westland 07-10-1941 SOC 02-11-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3848
s/n W3848
c/n 2070
VA (Supermarine)
W 3848
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-09-1941 8MU 11-09-1941 111S 22-09-1941 FAAC 29-05-1942 41S 22-08-1942 122S 14-03-1943 222S 'ZD-P' 19-05-1943 67GrpUSAAF 02-11-1943 HAL 16-06-1944 1661CU 29-11-1944 SOC 27-12-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3849
s/n W3849
c/n 2071
VA (Supermarine)
W 3849
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-09-1941 9MU 13-09-1941 118S 18-09-1941 Shot down by flak attacking minesweepers off Cherbourg 30-09-1941 SOC 08-10-1941 Flight Sergeant G A Painting killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3850
s/n W3850
c/n 2072
VA (Supermarine)
W 3850
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-09-1941 9MU 13-09-1941 609S 20-09-1941 Shot down by Bf109 while escorting ASR launch 3m W of Boulogne 21-10-1941 SOC 01-11-1941 FH23.40
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3851
s/n W3851
c/n 2073
VA (Supermarine)
W 3851
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-09-1941 12MU 13-09-1941 130S 28-10-1941 Flew into ground in cloud nr Helston Cornwall 27-05-1942 SOC 03-06-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3852
s/n W3852
c/n 2080
VA (Supermarine)
W 3852
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-09-1941 12MU 14-09-1941 41S 26-09-1941 Missing while escorting Bostons to Hazebrouck 12-04-1942 FH161.50
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk. Vb serial W3853
s/n W3853
c/n 2101
W 3853
Known Units:
Walker:
Served with No. 411 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 9 October 1941. Repaired on site 6 November 1941, no details. To No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 26 November 1941. Category AC damage on operations, 16 April 1942. Destroyed in flying accident 24 September 1942.
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3853
s/n W3853
c/n 2083
VA (Supermarine)
W 3853
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Nyasland II". Served with No. 411 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 26 March 1942, coded "DB*C". Left this unit by 18 September 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-09-1941 12MU 14-09-1941 602S 30-09-1941 HAL 10-11-1941 411S 26-03-1942 AST 18-09-1942 VASM 28-02-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 313S 28-06-1943 66S 04-07-1943 Took off in coarse pitch and failed to become airborne Perranporth FACE 19-09-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3893
s/n W3893
c/n 2084
VA (Supermarine)
W 3893
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-09-1941 129S 26-09-1941 AST 28-10-1941 302S 29-07-1942 engine failed crash landing nr Finningley CE 26-10-1942 65S 12-03-1943 ? 130S 31-03-1943 349S 19-07-1943 VASM 05-11-1943 fuel syst mods CAC ops 23-04-1944 278S 21-07-1944 151RU 09-03-1945 83GCF SOC 29-11-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3894
s/n W3894
c/n 2085
VA (Supermarine)
W 3894
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-09-1941 12MU 14-09-1941 501S 26-09-1941 Shot down by Bf109s nr Cherbourg 25-04-1942 Flying Officer A Palmer-Tomkinson killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3895
s/n W3895
c/n 2090
VA (Supermarine)
W 3895
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Named "Nyasland V". Served with No. 417 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 7 February 1942. Left this unit by 28 March 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 15-09-1941 33MU 17-09-1941 92S 22-09-1941 417S 07-02-1942 242S 28-03-1942 VASM 03-02-1943 fuel syst mods wing stiff 504S 02-09-1943 313S 22-09-1943 Missing while escorting Mitchells to Lanveoc 24-09-1943 Pilot Officer J B Cochrane killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3896
s/n W3896
c/n 2092
VA (Supermarine)
W 3896
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-09-1941 33MU 21-09-1941 315S 26-09-1941 Missing escorting Hurricanes to Bourbourg Canal nr Bergues 23-11-1941 Flying Officer W Grudzinski killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3897
s/n W3897
c/n 2093
VA (Supermarine)
W 3897
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-09-1941 33MU 21-09-1941 602S 25-09-1941 Missing escorting Blenheims to Areques 13-10-1941 FH13.50 Flight Sergeant Ford missing
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF LR Mk Vb serial W3898
s/n W3898
c/n 2097
VA (Supermarine)
W 3898
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-09-1941 35MU 19-09-1941 602S 25-09-1941 19S 02-04-1942 ASTH 11-08-1942 VASM 12-05-1943 mods 350S 'MN-J' 04-10-1943 322S 11-01-1944 CGS 07-10-1944 1AGS 28-11-1944 SOC 29-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF LR Mk Vb serial W3899
s/n W3899
c/n 2098
VA (Supermarine)
W 3899
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
Walker:
Served with No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 28 September 1941, 11 days after first flight. Left this unit by November 1941.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-09-1941 33MU 19-09-1941 401S 28-09-1941 PPSM 04-11-1941 154S 01-07-1942 121S 18-07-1942 CAC ops 21-07-1942 ros 335USAAF 01-10-1942 VASM 09-06-1943 fuel syst elev and rud mods wing stiff 350S 09-10-1943 FAAC 06-01-1944 ros 322S 01-02-1944 AST 30-05-1944 Armee de l'Air 19-01-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3900
s/n W3900
c/n 2101
VA (Supermarine)
W 3900
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;412
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-09-1941 45MU 24-09-1941 411S 09-10-1941 ros 06-11-1941 412S 26-11-1941 CAC ops 16-04-1942 Dived into ground Boxworth Cambs FA dbf CE 24-04-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3901
s/n W3901
c/n 2102
VA (Supermarine)
W 3901
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-09-1941 37MU 25-09-1941 316S 17-10-1941 306S 12-12-1941 PPSM 12-08-1942 mods 306S 24-08-1942 AST 15-09-1942 VASM 21-10-1942 fuel syst mods 118S 22-03-1943 Shot down by flak attacking convoy 7m NW of Texel 21-06-1943 Flight Sergeant R Croxton-Davies killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3902
s/n W3902
c/n 2108
VA (Supermarine)
W 3902
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 19-09-1941 37MU 26-09-1941 302S 'WX-T' 12-10-1941 VASM 28-08-1942 mods 132S 28-06-1943 1696Flt 21-11-1944 Reid Sigrist refurb to Portugal 30-12-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3931
s/n W3931
c/n 2021
VA (Supermarine)
W 3931
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-08-1941 45MU 01-09-1941 234S 26-09-1941 FACB 16-05-1942 AST 4USAAF 05-08-1942 VASM 11-07-1943 fuel syst elev and rud mods wing stiff S Type pt MkIII IFF bomb carrier 501S 'SD-F' 23-10-1943 CA ops 09-04-1944 ros Armee de l'Air 19-01-1946 GC2/18
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF Mk Vb serial W3932
s/n W3932
c/n 2022
VA (Supermarine)
W 3932
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Served with No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 29 June 1943. Left this unit by 3 December 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-08-1941 45MU 01-09-1941 308S 10-09-1941 316S 13-12-1941 FACB 28-12-1941 ros M50M install 317S 04-04-1943 412S 29-06-1943 303S 03-12-1943 Scottish Aviation 01-01-1944 M55M install 567S high approach heavy landing Hawkinge CE 16-06-1945 SOC 03-07-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3933
s/n W3933
c/n 2028
VA (Supermarine)
W 3933
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-08-1941 45MU 01-09-1941 266S 13-09-1941 154S 12-02-1942 DeH 05-05-1942 RNAS Lee on Solent 06-09-1942 ASTH 18-09-1942 hook fitt 880S 10-1942 884S 10-1942 PD 01-11-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3934
s/n W3934
c/n 2029
VA (Supermarine)
W 3934
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-08-1941 45MU 01-09-1941 234S 13-10-1941 Missing from sweep to St.Saens nr Dieppe 11-11-1941 Flight Sergeant W E Sapsed killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3935
s/n W3935
c/n 2041
VA (Supermarine)
W 3935
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-09-1941 45MU 07-09-1941 234S 18-09-1941 AST 18-04-1942 VASM 11-06-1942 fuel syst mods 41S 22-08-1942 316S 15-03-1943 306S 16-03-1943 DeH 18-07-1943 341S 15-11-1943 collision with BM317 taxy Perranporth dbf CE 05-01-1944 FH562.55
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3936
s/n W3936
c/n 2042
VA (Supermarine)
W 3936
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-09-1941 234S 'AZ-V' City of Lille 08-12-1942 USSR
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3937
s/n W3937
c/n 2043
VA (Supermarine)
W 3937
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 04-09-1941 9MU 07-09-1941 ros 13-12-1941 234S 22-12-1941 air collision on patrol landed Porthreath CAC 03-06-1942 SOC 05-06-1942 ros 303S 10-12-1942 315S CAC ops 12-06-1943 ros fast landing overshot Ballyhalbert overturned CE 09-09-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3938
s/n W3938
c/n 2047
VA (Supermarine)
W 3938
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Served with No. 403 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 12 September 1941, 6 days after first flight. Coded "KH*J". Left this unit by 3 April 1942. Later to RN, fitted with arrestor hook by September 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-09-1941 9MU 07-09-1941 403S 12-09-1941 131S 03-04-1942 AST 30-05-1942 RNAS 885S Lee on Solent 05-09-1942 AST 10-09-1942 hook fitt Lee 25-09-1942 PD 03-12-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3939
s/n W3939
c/n 2048
VA (Supermarine)
W 3939
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 05-09-1941 9MU 07-09-1941 501S 17-09-1941 [59S 19-05-1942 ?] AST 11-06-1942 5USAAF 12-08-1942 341S 05-03-1943 340S 'GW-N' 23-03-1943 FAAC 26-08-1943 ros RNDA 20-02-1944 Cunliffe-Owen 25-04-1944 mods 759S Yeovilton 24-07-1944 to 10-1944 761S Henstridge 11-1944 to 01-1945 Controlled flapless landing overshot nosed up in soft ground Cat LX 26-11-1944 (Mid RP Hypher) Retd RAF 12-06-1945 sold scrap J.Dale
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3940
s/n W3940
c/n 2059
VA (Supermarine)
W 3940
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 08-09-1941 33MU 10-09-1941 308S 13-09-1941 Shot down by Bf109s nr Amiens on sweep 27-09-1941 FH6.55
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3941
s/n W3941
c/n 2063
VA (Supermarine)
W 3941
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Served with No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 16 June 1942. To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 3 June 1943. Left this unit by 12 June 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-09-1941 33MU 10-09-1941 308S 13-09-1941 engine failed wheels up landing nr Northolt CE 18-12-1941 SOC 22-12-1941 AST 15-01-1942 401S 16-07-1942 416S 03-06-1943 129S 12-06-1943 453S 17-07-1943 350S 23-07-1943 Scottish Aviation 28-07-1943 Cunliffe-Owen 12-11-1943 39MU hook fitt RNDA 14-02-1944 886S Lee EF on takeoff crashed through fence on upwind end of runway Cat Z1 02-03-1944 (Squadron Leader CH Birch OK)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3942
s/n W3942
c/n 2078
VA (Supermarine)
W 3942
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-09-1941 43MU 13-09-1941 71S 19-09-1941 111S 05-06-1942 4USAAF 13-09-1942 CE ops 30-05-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3943
s/n W3943
c/n 2079
VA (Supermarine)
W 3943
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-09-1941 33MU 13-09-1941 118S Shot down by Ju88 while escorting Hudsons off Brittany 13-03-1942 SOC
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3944
s/n W3944
c/n 2076
VA (Supermarine)
W 3944
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-09-1941 33MU 13-09-1941 315S 22-09-1941 Missing on sweep 08-11-1941 S/Ldr W Szczeszniewki PoW
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3945
s/n W3945
c/n 2082
VA (Supermarine)
W 3945
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 12-09-1941 45MU 15-09-1941 317S 15-10-1941 316S 18-11-1941 306S 12-12-1941 Lost a wing on bomber escort to Brest 30-12-1941 FH34.20 F/Lt S W Zielinski killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3946
s/n W3946
c/n 2088
VA (Supermarine)
W 3946
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Served with No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 20 November 1942. To No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 3 February 1943. Left this unit by 15 May 1943. To No. 416 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 15 December 1943. Left this unit by 13 February 1944.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-09-1941 45MU 15-09-1941 501S 23-09-1941 152S 03-05-1942 421S 20-11-1942 412S 03-02-1943 602S 15-05-1943 416S 15-12-1943 186S 13-02-1944 130S 18-04-1944 Shot down by US Army AA 4m NE of St. Lo CE 22-06-1944 M46 and M45M install during service career
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3947
s/n W3947
c/n 2089
VA (Supermarine)
W 3947
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 13-09-1941 45MU 15-09-1941 611S 17-10-1941 64S 'SH-X' 14-11-1941 310S 18-04-1942 Shot down by Bf109 10m NW of Cap de la Havre 04-05-1942 FH255.30 Flight Sergeant P Q Bourgeois killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3948
s/n W3948
c/n 2099
VA (Supermarine)
W 3948
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-09-1941 45MU 26-09-1941 303S 29-04-1942 FACB 27-07-1942 ros 340S 28-09-1943 FACA 15-10-1943 ros 278S 23-05-1944 276S 22-02-1945 SOC 29-11-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3949
s/n W3949
c/n 2100
VA (Supermarine)
W 3949
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Served with No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF. Took part in attack mission on E-boats in English Channle on 15 March 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 17-09-1941 8MU 26-09-1941 412S 07-10-1941 engine failed crash-landed nr GAL Middx CE 10-06-1942 AST SOC 22-06-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF LR Mk Vb serial W3950
s/n W3950
c/n 2104
VA (Supermarine)
W 3950
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-09-1941 8MU 26-09-1941 452S 01-10-1941 457S 22-03-1942 303S 13-04-1942 AST 14-08-1942 VASM 11-10-1942 fuel syst mods 317S 06-04-1943 form collision with W3441 nr Slough Berks 07-06-1943 350S 05-10-1943 FAAC 21-10-1943 ros 322S 11-01-1944 1696Flt 21-11-1944 Reid Sigrist refurb to Portugal written off Reid Sigrist 30-10-1947
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3951
s/n W3951
c/n 2105
VA (Supermarine)
W 3951
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Served with No. 411 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 2 October 1941, 2 weeks after first flight. Category AC damage in flying accident on 11 December 1941, repaired on site. To No. 402 (F) Squadron, RCAF on 29 January 1942. Left this unit by April 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 18-09-1941 8MU 26-09-1941 411S 02-10-1941 FAAC 11-12-1941 ros 402S 29-01-1942 19S 26-04-1943 FAAC 03-05-1943 ros 602S 16-06-1943 AS 28-06-1943 82MU 26-09-1943 City of Lancaster 27-10-1943 Portugal 09-11-1943
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3952
s/n W3952
c/n 2126
VA (Supermarine)
W 3952
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;412
Walker:
Served with No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 1 October 1941, 6 days after first flight. To Rolls Royce for modifications on 22 October 1941, returned to this unit. Shot down by Bf 109s near Dunkirk-Lille during Circus 110 on 8 November 1941. Pilot Officer K.R.E. Denkman killed.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 24-09-1941 8MU 29-09-1941 412S 07-10-1941 R-R 22-10-1941 mods Shot down by Bf109 NE of Dunkerque on sweep 08-11-1941 Pilot Officer K R E Denkman killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3953
s/n W3953
c/n 2127
VA (Supermarine)
W 3953
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Served with No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 1 November 1941, 5 days after first flight. Category B damage in flying accident on 10 January 1942. Category C damage in flying accident on 3 September 1942. Repaired on site, left this unit by 18 September 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-09-1941 37MU 29-09-1941 401S 01-11-1941 FACB 10-01-1942 FAAC 03-09-1942 ros 302S 'WX-E' 18-09-1942 VASM 30-06-1943 fuel syst elev and rud mods wing stiff MkIII IFF bomb carrier Cunliffe-Owen 08-11-1943 hook fitt RNAS Henstridge 09-04-1944 808S 05-1944 to 06-1944 759S Yeovilton 09-1944 EF on approach to land Cat X 16-10-1944 (Squadron Leader JM Sturrock)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF LR Mk Vb serial W3954
s/n W3954
c/n 2128
VA (Supermarine)
W 3954
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 25-09-1941 37MU 29-09-1941 130S 08-11-1941 FAAC 16-02-1942 ros 302S 10-04-1942 CAC ops 07-09-1942 132S 28-06-1943 118S 10-10-1943 504S 15-03-1944 Engine cut hit cows in forced landing nr Hallaton Leics recat E 12-04-1944
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3955
s/n W3955
c/n 2133
VA (Supermarine)
W 3955
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;401
Walker:
Served with No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 19 October 1941. Shot down by Adolf Galland of JG 26 on 27 October 1941. Pilot Sgt. B.G. Hodgkinson POW. Had 11:20 airframe time.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 26-09-1941 37MU 29-09-1941 401S 19-10-1941 Missing presumed shot down by Bf109 on sweep nr Nieuport 27-10-1941 FH11.20
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3956
s/n W3956
c/n 2138
VA (Supermarine)
W 3956
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 27-09-1941 38MU 29-09-1941 602S 14-10-1941 Hit by flak nr Boulogne and crashlanded Kenley CE 03-03-1942 SOC 09-03-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3957
s/n W3957
c/n 2142
VA (Supermarine)
W 3957
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 29-09-1941 38MU 01-10-1941 71S 20-10-1941 GAL 06-06-1942 129S 19-08-1942 602S 29-11-1942 66S 19-02-1943 234S 12-05-1943 312S 29-06-1943 118S 13-03-1944 611S 03-10-1944 Armee de l'Air 29-01-1945 GC2/18
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3958
s/n W3958
c/n 2155
VA (Supermarine)
W 3958
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Served with No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 12 October 1941. Part of rear support wing for Circus 112A, raid on Comines power station, on 8 March 1942. Destroyed in a flying accident on 23 July 1942.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-09-1941 38MU 01-10-1941 412S 12-10-1941 FACE 23-07-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3959
s/n W3959
c/n 2156
VA (Supermarine)
W 3959
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;412
Walker:
Served with No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 12 October 1941, 12 days after first flight. Operated by No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF on training mission on 1 November 1941. Shot down during Circus 110 on 8 November 1941. Squadron Leader G.D. Bushell, DFM killed.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 30-09-1941 38MU 09-10-1941 412S 12-10-1941 Shot down by Bf109 NE of Dunkerque on sweep 08-11-1941 S/Ldr C Bushell killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3960
s/n W3960
c/n 2158
VA (Supermarine)
W 3960
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-10-1941 38MU 03-10-1941 302S 11-10-1941 CAC ops 19-09-1942 ros 67GrpUSAAF 25-02-1943 341S 16-01-1944 52OTU 06-02-1944 402S 17-06-1944 SOC 27-09-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3961
s/n W3961
c/n 2159
VA (Supermarine)
W 3961
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 02-10-1941 38MU 03-10-1941 316S 11-10-1941 306S 12-12-1941 FACB 16-04-1942 Westland 222S 24-10-1942 64S 31-03-1943 Engine caught fire crashlanded and blew up Langley Sussex FACE 11-08-1943 SOC 31-08-1943 FH388.15
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3962
s/n W3962
c/n 2168
VA (Supermarine)
W 3962
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-10-1941 38MU 14-10-1941 312S 23-10-1941 Westland 25-12-1941 FACB 31-12-1941 recat E SOC 06-04-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3963
s/n W3963
c/n 2169
VA (Supermarine)
W 3963
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 06-10-1941 38MU 14-10-1941 71S 22-10-1941 Collided with W3627 on training flight FACE dbf 16-11-1941
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3964
s/n W3964
c/n 2173
VA (Supermarine)
W 3964
Merlin 45
Known Units: ;401
Walker:
Served with No. 401 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 22 October 1941. Shot down by Bf 109s of JG 26 on 27 October 1941. Pilot Officer C.W. Floody POW. Had 7:00 airframe time.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 07-10-1941 38MU 14-10-1941 401S 22-10-1941 Missing on sweep nr Nieuport in combat with Bf109s 27-10-1941 SOC 31-10-1941 FH7.00
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3965
s/n W3965
c/n 2179
VA (Supermarine)
W 3965
Merlin 45
Known Units:
Walker:
Served with No. 412 (F) Squadron, RCAF, from 2 September 1942. To No. 421 (F) Squadron, RCAF from 31 January 1943. Left this unit by 21 February 1943.
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 09-10-1941 38MU 14-10-1941 313S 26-10-1941 154S 26-02-1942 FAAC 18-06-1942 412S 02-09-1942 VASM 05-09-1942 fuel syst mods 421S 31-01-1943 AST 21-02-1943 610S 09-04-1943 485S 24-04-1943 122S 25-04-1943 222S 19-05-1943 53OTU 15-02-1945 Portsmouth Aviation 09-10-1945
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3966
s/n W3966
c/n 2184
VA (Supermarine)
W 3966
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 10-10-1941 38MU 14-10-1941 19S 23-10-1941 65S 02-01-1942 CAC ops 18-04-1942 SOC 23-04-1942 AST ? Engine cut on sweep belly landed in field Yew Tree Farm nr Stebbing Essex 18-04-1942 FH200.40
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3967
s/n W3967
c/n 2191
VA (Supermarine)
W 3967
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-10-1941 39MU 17-10-1941 234S 22-10-1941 FAAC 26-02-1942 ros Missing while escorting Bostons to Cherbourg believed shot down by Bf109 15-04-1942 Pilot Officer M L Simon killed (American)
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3968
s/n W3968
c/n 2189
VA (Supermarine)
W 3968
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 11-10-1941 39MU 13-10-1941 317S 19-10-1941 flew into high ground nr Princetown Dartmoor CE 29-11-1941 SOC 18-12-1941 Pilot Officer K Woycik killed
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire Mk Vb serial W3969
s/n W3969
c/n 2192
VA (Supermarine)
W 3969
Merlin 45
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 14-10-1941 39MU 17-10-1941 313S 26-10-1941 152S 24-04-1942 crashed into mudflats Lough Foyle NI 07-05-1942
last update: 2025-February-05Spitfire LF LR Mk Vb serial W3970
s/n W3970
c/n 2199
VA (Supermarine)
W 3970
Merlin 45M
Known Units:
airhistory.org.uk/spitfire
FF 16-10-1941 39MU 20-10-1941 317S 'JH-P' 26-10-1941 FAAC 22-12-1941 AST 41S 27-10-1942 302S 14-03-1943 322S 24-01-1944 350S 13-03-1944 57OTU 23-07-1944 SOC 14-06-1945
last update: 2025-February-05