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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire LF.IX
    Last Military Serial:SM-40 FABe
    Construction Number:CBAF-05542
    Last Civil Registration:G-AVDJ
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX sn SM-40...
    Latest Owner or Location:Flying Legends Collection, Siegerland-Flughafen, Germany

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire LF.IX.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n MH415.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Netherlands East Indies Air Fo with s/n H-108.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Netherlands East Indies Air Fo with s/n H-65.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Netherlands East Indies Air Fo with s/n B-12.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Force Arienne Belge with s/n SM-40.

    To unknown owner with c/r OO-ARD.

    From 29 December 1966 to 19 November 1968

    To Thomas Gilbert Mahaddie with new c/r G-AVDJ (SPITFIRE IX, CBAF 5542).

    1 June 1972

    To Wilson C. Edwards, Big Spring, TX with new c/r N415MH.

    21 June 1978

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX415MH (SPITFIRE MARK IX, SM-40) issued.

    27 December 2007

    To Wilson C. Edwards, Big Spring, TX keeping c/r N415MH.

    Based at Wilson Connie Edwards Ranch, Edwards Lucian Wells Ranch Airport, Big Spring, TX.
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    21 August 2015

    To Pays Flying Museum, Scone, New South Wales.
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    9 October 2015

    Civil registration, N415MH, cancelled.
    Exported to Australia.

    9 October 2015

    To unknown owner with c/r N415MH.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    14 October 2015

    Disassembled.
    Dissembled and placed in a container for shipping to Australia.

    To Vintage Fighter Restorations., Scone, New South Wales.
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    25 June 2020

    To Air Leasing Ltd, Sywell with new c/r G-AVDJ.

    1 September 2021


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Photographed visiting Duxford, UK (EGSU) on 1 September 2021.

    To Pays Air Service Vintage Fighter Restorations, Scone, New South Wales.
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    Restored.
    The work was carried out by FAST Aero at Brasschaat, Belgium.

    26 July 2024

    To Flying Legends Collection, Siegerland-Flughafen, Germany.
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