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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire LF.XVIe
    Last Military Serial:TE517 RAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-IX-0558
    Last Civil Registration:G-JGCA
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire LF.XVIe sn TE5...
    Latest Owner or Location:Biggin Hill Airport, Croydon, London, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a Spitfire LF.XVIe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n TE517.

    Transferred to No33 MU, RAF Lyneham.

    July 1945

    Transferred to RAF No313 (Czech) Squadron, RAF Manston, Kent.

    24 August 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ceskoslovenske Vojenske Letectvo.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Israeli Defense Force and operated with these markings: 20-46.

    1950


    Photographer: Peter Arnold Collection
    Notes: TE517 / 20-46 Israeli Air Force

    Abandoned in Gaaton Kibbutz, Israel.

    March 1976


    Photographer: Peter Arnold Collection
    Notes: TE517 Gaaton Kibutz Israel

    1981

    Transported by ground.
    Brought to the UK.

    From 3 July 1981 to 12 November 1984

    To unknown owner with c/r G-BIXP.

    August 1984

    To Charles Church.

    From 9 April 1985 to 13 June 1988

    To Charles Church (Spitfires) Limited with new c/r G-CCIX.

    From 1985 to 1992

    Restoration started.
    The work was carried out by Charles Church at Winchester.

    8 May 1986


    Photographer: Peter Arnold Collection
    Notes: TE517 Micheldever, Hampshire Charles Church

    From 13 June 1988 to 6 January 1993

    To Charles Church Displays Ltd keeping c/r G-CCIX.

    Restoration continued.

    From 1993 to 2002

    To Fantasy of Flight/Kermit Weeks, FL.

    Circa 31 March 2009

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-JGCA (SPITFIRE LF IX E, CBAF IX 558) issued.

    Transported by ship.
    Returned to the UK at Booker - Wycombe Air Park.

    31 March 2009

    To Paul Marcus Andrews, PSV Building, High Wycombe with new c/r G-JGCA.

    To Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
    View the Location Dossier

    To Biggin Hill Airport, Croydon, London, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    2021

    Restored.
    The work was carried out by the Spitfire Company, Biggin Hill, for a full restoration to flight.

    7 April 2023

    First post-restoration Flight.
    Flown at Biggin Hill.

    4 June 2023


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: TE517 c/r G-RYIX photographed at Duxford, UK on 4 June 2023.
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