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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire LF.Vb
    Last Military Serial:EP120 RAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-02403
    Last Civil Registration:G-LFVB
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire LF.Vb sn EP120...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Fighter Collection, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1942

    Constructed as a Spitfire LF.Vb.
    Built at the Castle Bromwich factory

    May 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n EP120.

    May 1942

    Transferred to 45 Maintenance Unit, RAF Kinloss.

    June 1942

    Transferred to 501SQN.
    Scored six of her confirmed kills with Sqn Ldr Geoffrey Northcott as pilot.

    Transferred to 19SQN, Cornwall.

    April 1944

    Transferred to 402 (City of Winnipeg) SQN.

    April 1944

    Markings Applied: AE-A

    Transferred to 33 Maintenance Unit, RAF Lyneham.

    Transferred to 53 Maintenance Unit, RAF Kirton, Lindsey.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n 8070M.
    As a Maintenance Instruction Airframe.

    From Unknown to 1967

    Transferred to Various RAF Bases.
    As a Gate Guardian.

    1967

    Used as a static airframe in the Battle of Britain film.

    From After 1967 to 1989

    Transferred to RAF Wattisham.
    As a Gate Guardian.

    Circa 1970


    Photographer: Unknown

    From 1989 to 1993

    Assigned to RAF Saint Athan for storage.

    1993

    To The Fighter Collection, Duxford.

    From 1993 to 1995

    Restored.

    9 May 1994

    To Patina Ltd, Jersey with new c/r G-LFVB (SPITFIRE LF VB, CBAF 2403).

    Operated by The Fighter Collection, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    By 2006

    Markings Applied: City of Winnipeg, AE-A
    402(RCAF)Sqn markings.

    20 August 2006


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: As AE-A in the hangar at Duxford, UK

    8 October 2006


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Duxford Autumn Air Show

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford Autumn Airshow

    14 May 2016


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At La Ferte Alais, Paris, France

    10 July 2016


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: Flying Legends Airshow 2016, Duxford, UK
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    Robert Nichols
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