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Registration: 7000M

Construction Number: CBAF.11493

Code Number: VZ477 / JF-O

Military Unit: RAF Wellesbourne Gate Guard.

Model Supermarine Spitfire Mk LFXVIe

Operator: Royal Air Force

Airport: RAF Gaydon, UK - England

Airshow: Gaydon - BoB Display - 1959

Photographer: Peter Clarke

Date Taken: 19/09/1959

Date Submitted: 03/07/2007

Aircraft ex TE392;spurious serial & squadron code; shown before conversion to high back configuration. Later sold to Doug Arnolds/ Warbirds of Great Britain and stored dismantled. Later sold the the USA as N97RW and restored to airworthy condition. Owned and flown by the Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, Texas. Damaged in a flood at the museum caused by Hurricane Ike (2008) but repaired and flying again (2016).

Picture ID:1061101

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