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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire HF.IX
    Last Military Serial:TD314 RAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-10492
    Last Civil Registration:G-CGYJ
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire HF.IX sn TD314...
    Latest Owner or Location:Keith Michael Perkins, Yalding, Maidstone

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a Spitfire HF.IX.
    Manufactured at Castle Bromwich

    From April 1945 to 24 March 1948

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n TD314.

    Transferred to 33 Maintenance Unit, RAF Lyneham.

    From 19 April 1948 to 12 May 1948

    Transported by ship.
    Shipped from UK to Cape Town, South Africa.

    From June 1948 to 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force.
    Serial whilst in SAAF Service not known.

    1954

    To South African Metal and Machinery Company.

    From 1969 to 1972

    Recovered.
    Fuselage and other parts recovered in Johnnesburg by Peter Barnett.

    From 1978 to 1981

    To Pat Swonnell, Vancouver, BC.

    From 1985 to 2002

    To Matt Sattler, Carp, ON.

    2009

    To Peter Monk.

    To Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, RAF Biggin Hill, Croydon, London, England.
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    1 November 2011

    To Keith Michael Perkins, Yalding, Maidstone with new c/r G-CGYJ (SPITFIRE HFIX, CBAF 10492).

    From By May 2012 to 2013

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: FX-P

    7 December 2013

    First post-restoration Flight.
    At Biggin Hill, UK.

    August 2016


    Photographer: Joop de Groot
    Notes: At Duxford, UK

    4 May 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken over Sywell, Northamptonshire, England

    4 May 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken over Sywell, Northamptonshire, England
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