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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire XVIe
    Last Military Serial:TE356 RAF
    Last Civil Registration:N356TE
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire XVIe sn TE356...
    Latest Owner or Location:Affordable Mid Coast Housing Llc, Auburn, ME

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire XVIe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n TE356.

    23 April 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Spitfire LF.XVIe seen on display at RAF Leeming, Yorshire in April 1978 was still there until 1986.

    25 February 1987

    To Bittleswell Limited/Douglas Arnold with new c/r G-SXVI.

    25 February 1987

    To Douglas Arnold, Bitteswell Ltd, Biggin Hill Airport, Westerham with new c/r G-SXVI (SPITFIRE MK.XVI, TE356).

    15 January 1990

    Civil registration, G-SXVI, cancelled.
    Exported to the United States.

    15 January 1990

    Civil registration, G-SXVI, cancelled.

    1996


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At MCAS El Toro Airshow, CA

    23 April 1999

    To Evergreen Vintage Aircraft Inc, McMinnvile, OR with new c/r N356TE.

    In the inventory of Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, McMinnville, OR.
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    23 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo at Evergreen Air and Space Museum

    21 May 2013

    To Evergreen Vintage Aircraft Inc, McMinnville, OR keeping c/r N356TE.

    15 July 2015

    To Affordable Mid Coast Housing Llc, Auburn, ME keeping c/r N356TE.

    16 July 2015

    To Affordable Mid Coast Housing Llc, Auburn, ME keeping c/r N356TE.

    15 August 2018

    To unknown owner with c/r N356TE.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Burlington, VT.

    12 November 2019

    Civil registration, N356TE, cancelled.
    Exported to United Kingdom.


    Photographer: Unknown
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     Peter Nicholson
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