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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire F.IX
    Last Military Serial:5631 SAAF
    Construction Number:6S-160931
    Last Civil Registration:N64SQ
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire F.IX sn 5631 S...
    Latest Owner or Location:Collings Foundation, Stow, MA

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a Spitfire F.IX.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n BR601.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force with s/n 5631.

    To Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX.
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    15 April 2008

    To unknown owner with c/r N601FF.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Wilmington, DE.

    29 August 2013

    Civil registration, N601FF, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Wilmington, DE.

    15 February 2016

    To Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar Ltd, Biggin Hill Airport, Biggin Hill, Westerham with new c/r G-CIYF.

    Based at Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, RAF Biggin Hill, Croydon, London, England.
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    28 March 2017

    Civil registration, G-CIYF, cancelled.
    Exported to United States.

    18 April 2017

    To Collings Foundation, Stow, MA with new c/r N64SQ.

    9 June 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX64SQ (SPITFIRE MK.F IX, 6S-160931) issued.

    24 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2017 EAA Airventure at Oshkosh
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
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