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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire LF.IX
    Last Military Serial:TA805 SAAF
    Last Civil Registration:G-PMNF
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX sn TA805...
    Latest Owner or Location:Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, RAF Biggin Hill, Croydon, London, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire LF.IX.

    11 March 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force with s/n TA805.

    1954

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the South African Air Force.

    By 1954

    To South African Metal and MacHinery Co, Salt River, Cape Town.

    From By 1981 to By 1989

    To SAAF Museum, Snake Valley AB.
    By the time TA805 came to Snake Valley it was only a fuselage hulk.

    From 1989 to By 1995

    To Steve W. Atkins, Oxford, UK.

    By 1995

    The restoration project was stored at the Isle-of-Wight.

    29 April 1996

    To Peter R. Monk Mike Simpson, Maidstone with new c/r G-PMNF.

    From By 2001 to By 2003

    Restored.
    Restored at Sandown, Isle of Wight.

    17 March 2003

    Transported by ship.
    Moved to Duxford.

    Restoration continued.

    12 May 2005

    Markings Applied: TA805, FX M

    7 December 2005

    First flight.

    8 October 2006


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Duxford Autumn Air Show 2006

    To The Kent Spitfire, RAF Biggin Hill, Croydon, London, England.
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    2009


    Photographer: Andy West
    Notes: Photographed at the Military and Flying Machines event, Damyns Hall Aerodrome, Upminster, Essex (www.damynshall.co.uk) - not far from the site of the former WWII Battle of Britain aerodrome at Hornchurch. Carries the markings: SPIRIT OF KENT/FX-M/05

    To Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, RAF Biggin Hill, Croydon, London, England.
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    13 June 2021


    Photographer: John Yates
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