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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire PR.XI
    Last Military Serial:PA908 RAF
    Construction Number:6S-417723
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire PR.XI sn PA908...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire PR.XI.

    January 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n PA908.

    January 1944

    Transferred to No. 681 Squadron, RAF Dum Dum, Bengal, British India.

    May 1944

    Base of operations changed.
    RAF Alipore, Bengal, British India.

    May 1945

    Base of operations changed.
    RAF Mingaladon, Burma.

    September 1945

    Base of operations changed.
    RAF Kai Tak, Hong Kong.

    December 1945

    Base of operations changed.
    RAF Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.

    January 1946

    Base of operations changed.
    RAF Seletar, Singapore.

    May 1946

    Base of operations changed.
    RAF Palam, Punjab, British India.

    9 May 1946

    Declared BER, relegated to instructional airframe.

    29 December 1947

    To Inidan Air Force, Allahabad.
    Markings added: M342
    Provided as an instructional airframe.

    1984

    Found in Poona, western India. Offered for sale by IAF at Patna AB, India.

    January 1984

    To Carl Enzenhofer, John Wilson and Jeet Mehal, Vancouver, BC.

    8 February 1985

    Transported by ship.
    Arrived by ship in Vancouver.

    1986

    To United States Air Force Museum, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    From Circa 1987 to 1993

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: MB950
    Restored by Pete Regina and Rick Goddard; painted as a 14th Photographic Squadron Mark XI at Mount Farm airfield in England.

    May 1993

    Placed on display.

    31 May 1996


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    2004

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
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    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose
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    Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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