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Registration: HS964

Construction Number: 6S/699626

Code Number: 31051 / 51

Model Supermarine Spitfire Mk PRXIX

Operator: Flygvapenmuseum Malmen

Airport: Linkoping - Malmen (ESCF), Sweden

Photographer: Brian Johnstone

Date Taken: 25/01/2012

Date Submitted: 13/05/2012

The PR.XIX was the last unarmed reconnaissance variant of the well-known Supermarine Spitfire. Totally 225 were built. Fifty of these were bought, nearly new and in excellent condition, from the RAF in 1948. They were all provided to the Reconnaissance Wing F 11 at Nyköping Their Swedish designation became S 31. The aircraft were delivered complete with camera installations and spares. The original Spitfire was once RAF PM627 and carries now the fictitious RSwAf Number 31051.

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