Supermarine Spitfire Mk LFXVIe, TB597 / CBAF.IX.3310, Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace
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Registration: TB597
Construction Number: CBAF.IX.3310
Code Number: GW-B
Model Supermarine Spitfire Mk LFXVIe
Operator: Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace
Airport: Paris - Le Bourget (LBG / LFPB), France
Photographer: Derek Gaynor
Date Taken: 20/06/2009
Date Submitted: 03/07/2009
TB597 / GW-B (cn CBAF.IX.3310) Built at Castle Bromwich in 1944 and delivered to the Royal Air Force as RR263. Retired in 1954 and used in the filming of the 1955 Douglas Bader biography, Reach For The Sky. Gate-guard at RAF Kenley from 1955-67. Overhauled and flown to France inside an RAF Blackburn Beverly, and presented to the French to commemorate the pilots who lost their lives flying for the Free French Air Forces in WWII. Carrying false identity now, preserved at the Musée de l Air et de l Espace.
Picture ID:1181110