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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire XVI
    Last Military Serial:TE392 RAF
    Last Civil Registration:N14TS
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire XVI sn TE392 R...
    Latest Owner or Location:Condor Llc, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire XVI.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n TE392.


    Photographer: Unknown

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-XWE.

    6 October 1999

    To Texas Aviation Hall of Fame DBA, Galveston, TX with new c/r N97RW.

    Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX.
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    October 2001


    Photographer: Mark Kennedy
    Notes: Supermarine Spitfire XVI (Lone Star Flight Museum) at Wings Over Houston Airshow, Ellington Field, Houston, Tx. Oct. 2001.

    10 October 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX97RW (SPITFIRE MARK XVI, TE-392) issued.

    14 November 2003


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2003 photo taken at Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston in Texas

    10 January 2010

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX97RW (SPITFIRE MARK XVI, TE-392) issued.

    28 July 2017

    To Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX keeping c/r N97RW.

    16 August 2017

    To Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston, TX keeping c/r N97RW.

    Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Ellington Field, Houston, TX.
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    19 December 2017

    Civil registration, N97RW, cancelled.
    Exported to Australia.

    2 December 2019

    To Bishopp Aviation Pty Ltd, Kelvin Grove, QLD with new c/r VH-XWE.

    2 December 2019

    To Bishopp Aviation Pty Ltd, Newmarket, QLD with new c/r VH-RAF {1}.

    28 August 2020

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-RAF {1}.

    20 February 2022


    Photographer: Mick McKean
    Notes: Bishopp Aviation Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI VH-RAF takes off at the Watts for Breakfast fly-in February 2022 event.Watts Bridge Memorial Airfield, Cressbrook, Queensland, Australia.

    20 February 2022


    Photographer: Mick McKean
    Notes: Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI VH-RAF low pass on arrival at the Watts for Breakfast fly-in February 2022 event.Watts Bridge Memorial Airfield, Cressbrook, Queensland, Australia.

    13 May 2022

    Civil registration, VH-RAF {1}, cancelled.

    18 May 2022

    To Condor Llc, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL with new c/r N14TS.

    15 December 2022

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX14TS issued.
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