Dates

Event

Circa 1941

Constructed as a Spitfire Vb.

August 1941

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n AB910.

August 1941

Transferred to 222SQN, RAF North Weald.

Transferred to 130SQN, RAF Perranporth.

June 1942

Transferred to 133SQN, RAF Biggin Hill.

Transferred to 241SQN.

Transferred to 416SQN.

Transferred to 402 (RCAF) SQN.

July 1944

Transferred to 53OTU, RAF Hibaldstow.

Transferred to 527SQN.
Radar calibration duties.

Circa 1945

Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

25 October 1946

To Group Captain Allen Wheeler with new c/r G-AISU.
Used as an air racer.

July 1951

Photographer: via Tony Clarke
Notes: At RAF Hendon Air Show

From 19 May 1955 to 22 August 1955

To Vickers Armstrong (Supermarine Works, South Marston) keeping c/r G-AISU.
Refurbished and returned to military markings.

1965

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n AB910.
Donated to Battle of Britain Flight.

1965

Transferred to RAF Historic Aircraft Flight, RAF Coltishall.
Renamed Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in 1973.

From 1967 to 1968

Used in the movie - Battle of Britain.

Markings Applied: N3311, AI-B
Fictitious codes used for movie.

Photographer: Unknown
Notes: Possibly taken by my late father and found in his war album. No radio aerial so suspect taken in UK possibly when shipped from Castle Bromwich. My father flew over El-Alamein after battle and was based in Palestine and he visited Egypt too. The tree line and grass look UKish not desert.Possibly the earliest picture of AB910

Circa 1975

Photographer: Unknown

1976

To The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby, Coningsby, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
View the Location Dossier

By September 1980

Markings Applied: QJ-J
Noted at RAF Abingdon Airshow 1980-09-13.

By May 1982

Markings Applied: XT-M
Noted at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 1982-05-29.

4 September 1982

Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at RAF Finningley Air Show

23 July 1983

Photographer: Paul Thallon
Notes: 1983 photo of three - Supermarine Spitfires at Greenham Common

1 July 1986

Photographer: Unknown
Notes: Photographed at Middle Wallop.

Circa 1987

Photographer: Unknown

By July 1987

Markings Applied: BP-O
Noted at RAF Fairford IAT 1987-07-18.

23 September 1989

Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: Spitfite LF.VB of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight on display at the 1989 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

10 July 1990

Photographer: Unknown

10 July 1990

Photographer: Unknown

By May 1993

Markings Applied: MD-E
In markings of 133Sqn, RAF Biggin Hill, 1942.

29 May 1993

Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 1993

Circa 1994

Markings Applied: AE-H

Circa 1995

Photographer: Unknown

Circa 1995

Photographer: Unknown

Circa 1995

Photographer: Unknown

By May 1995

Markings Applied: AB910
In D-Day markings of 402(RCAF)Sqn.

8 May 1995

Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at Duxford Airshow

By July 1997

Markings Applied: President Roosevelt, Warner Bros, ZD-C
President Roosevelt and Warner Bros titles under cockpit.

17 July 2002

Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Airshow

13 September 2003

Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: Leuchars Airshow

By July 2004

Markings Applied: IR-G

18 July 2004

Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at RAF Fairford RIAT

9 September 2007

Photographer: David Blaker
Notes: At Duxford Autumn Airshow. Markings of Wg Cdr Jan Zumbach No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron RF-D

By 2008

Markings Applied: RF-D

By July 2012

Markings Applied: MD-E
In markings of 133Sqn, RAF Biggin Hill, 1942.

8 July 2012

Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at RAF Fairford RIAT

Circa 2014

Restoration continued.
Under major refurbishment by Aircraft Restoration Company, Duxford.

19 July 2015

Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
Notes: RAF Fairford, UK