Supermarine Spitfire Mk LFXVIe, 7245M / CBAF.IX.4640, Royal Air Force
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Registration: 7245M
Construction Number: CBAF.IX.4640
Code Number: RW729 / DW-X
Model Supermarine Spitfire Mk LFXVIe
Operator: Royal Air Force
Airport: RAF Leconfield (EGXV), UK - England
Photographer: Robin A Walker
Date Taken: 13/09/1963
Date Submitted: 09/01/2007
Displayed with incorrect serial RW729, is actually ex RW382. Later used in the film Battle of Britain. Later sold to Historic Flying Ltd and registered as G-XVIA. Sold to the USA in 1995 as N382RW and involved in a fatal crash 3rd June 1998 in Blue Canyon, California. Wreckage later sold and registered as G-PBIX and first post restoration flight happened 18/09/2013. Now airworthy and based at Biggin Hill (2017).
Picture ID:1035599