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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire XVIe
    Last Military Serial:TE288 RAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-11892
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire XVIe sn TE288...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Force Museum, Wigram Airport, Christchurch, Canterbury, South Island

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a Spitfire XVIe.

    1 June 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n TE288.
    Served with 61 OTU, 501 RAuxAF Squadron (coded RAB-D).

    1951

    Withdrawn from use.
    And stored.

    From 1955 to 1963

    Spent time as a gate guard at RAF Rufforth, Church Fenton and finally Dishforth.

    1963

    To Canterbury Brevet Club, Christchurch, New Zealand.

    From 1963 to 1984

    Mounted on a pole on Memorial Avenue at Christchurch International Airport.

    Circa November 1977


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: Displayed on a pole at Christchurch Airport, NZ

    1984

    Original Spitfire aircraft donated to RNZAF Museum and replaced with a Fibregalass replica.

    1984

    To Air Force Museum, Wigram Airport, Christchurch, Canterbury, South Island.
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    5 March 1984


    Photographer: Burbanite
    Notes: The original Spitfire aircraft is taken down from its pole on 5th March 1984 - to be later restored and displayed at the RNZAF Museum at Wigram

    Markings Applied: OU-V
    The aircraft is displayed in the Aircraft Hall as OU-V of No. 485 Squadron in Europe in 1945.

    18 December 2010


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: Aircraft displayed at the National Air Force Museum of New Zealand at Wigram, Chistchurch

    19 March 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Airforce Museum of New Zealand at Wigram, Christchurch, South Island.

    18 February 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
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