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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire LF.XVIe
    Last Military Serial:RW393 RAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-IX-4651
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire LF.XVIe sn RW3...
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire LF.XVIe.
    Built at Castle Bromwich

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n RW393.

    20 July 1945

    Transferred to To No. 6 Maintenance Unit, RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire.

    3 November 1947

    Transferred to To No. 203 Advanced Flying School, RAF Chivenor, Devon.

    1949

    Flown as the personal aircraft of the AOC Fighter Command - Air Marshal Sir William Elliot (AOC Fighter Command 1947 -49) whilst on charge to No.31 Squadron (Metropolitan Communications Flight) at RAF Hendon.

    13 December 1954

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    14 December 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n 7293M.
    As a display aircraft at No. 603 Squadron, RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Circa 1967


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland

    9 February 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Spitfire LF.XVIe RW 393 was gate guardian at RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh from 1956 to 1989

    1975

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: XT-A
    Refurbished by the Engineering Wing at RAF Kinloss. Returned to the gate at Turnhouse by April 76.

    4 October 1989

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at RAF St Athan.

    March 1995

    Transferred to To RAF Museum Storage and Restoration Centre, RAF Cardington.

    1 May 1995

    Placed on display, Aerospace Museum Cosford, Salop.

    7 June 2007

    By road to RAFM Stafford for storage.

    21 July 2015

    To RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.
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    8 March 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At display for cockpit visits at RAF Museum, Hendon, UK
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