Registration / Serial: | PL983 |
Other Marks: | LT |
Aircraft Original Type: | Supermarine Spitfire |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Supermarine Spitfire / Seafire |
Aircraft Version: | Supermarine 365 Spitfire PR11 |
Licence-built by: | Vickers-Armstrong |
C/n (msn): | 6S/583723 |
Operator Titles: | UK - Air Force |
City / Airport: | Old Warden (EGTH)Map |
Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | 12 September 1963 |
Photo by: | Mike CainContact |
Photo ID: | 465006Submit Correction |
View count: | 415 |
First flew Oct.1944. Registered NC74138 20th Feb.1948 - 9th Aug.1949 for use by the US Civil Air Attaché in London. Donated by Vickers-Armstrong to the Shuttleworth Trust in 1950 and ferried to Old Warden as G-15-109. In static display there 1950 to 1975, when it went to Duxford for restoration. Registered G-PRXI 6th June 1983. Suffered a fatal crash in a forced landing during an air show at Rouen 4th June 2001. Subsequently rebuilt with first flight 18th May 2018. In 2020 it carried 'Thank U NHS' under the wings in tribute to the efforts of the NHS during the Covid pandemic.
Registration / Serial: | PL983 |
Aircraft Version: | Supermarine 365 Spitfire PR11 |
C/n (msn): | 6S/583723 |
Operator Titles: | UK - Air Force |
City / Airport: | Old Warden (EGTH)Map | Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | 12 September 1963 |
Photo by: | Mike CainContact |
Registration / Serial: | PL983 |
Other Marks: | LT |
Aircraft Original Type: | Supermarine Spitfire |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Supermarine Spitfire / Seafire |
Aircraft Version: | Supermarine 365 Spitfire PR11 |
Licence-built by: | Vickers-Armstrong |
C/n (msn): | 6S/583723 |
Operator Titles: | UK - Air Force |
City / Airport: | Old Warden (EGTH)Map |
Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | 12 September 1963 |
Photo by: | Mike CainContact |
Photo ID: | 465006Submit Correction |
View count: | 415 |
First flew Oct.1944. Registered NC74138 20th Feb.1948 - 9th Aug.1949 for use by the US Civil Air Attaché in London. Donated by Vickers-Armstrong to the Shuttleworth Trust in 1950 and ferried to Old Warden as G-15-109. In static display there 1950 to 1975, when it went to Duxford for restoration. Registered G-PRXI 6th June 1983. Suffered a fatal crash in a forced landing during an air show at Rouen 4th June 2001. Subsequently rebuilt with first flight 18th May 2018. In 2020 it carried 'Thank U NHS' under the wings in tribute to the efforts of the NHS during the Covid pandemic.
Registration / Serial: | PL983 |
Aircraft Version: | Supermarine 365 Spitfire PR11 |
C/n (msn): | 6S/583723 |
Operator Titles: | UK - Air Force |
City / Airport: | Old Warden (EGTH)Map | Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | 12 September 1963 |
Photo by: | Mike CainContact |