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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire XVI
    Last Military Serial:SL542 RAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-IX-4656
    Last Civil Registration:N2289J
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire XVI sn SL542 R...
    Latest Owner or Location:Westmount, Montreal, Quebec

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a Spitfire XVI.

    July 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n SL542.


    Photographer: Alf Jeffries

    January 1957

    Involved in an incident.
    Suffered accident at RAF Little Snoring removing it from airworthy status.

    May 1957

    Transferred to RAF Horsham Saint. Faith, UK.
    Used as gate guardian.

    From 1966 to 6 December 1988

    Transferred to RAF Coltishall, Norfolk.
    Used as a gate guardian.

    28 June 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Spitfire LF.XVIe SL 542 as gate guardian at RAF Coltishall, Norfolk in the Summer of 1978.

    From 1989 to 1991

    Transferred to RAF, Saint. Athans.
    In storage awaiting sale.

    From May 1994 to Circa 2002

    To Mike Araldi/Pegasus Investments/Jet Cap Aviation Corp, Inc, West Palm Beach, FL with new c/r N2289J (SPITFIRE MARK XVI, SL542).

    13 June 2008

    Civil registration, N2289J, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    To Anthony Gurak, Westmount, Quebec,.

    Based at Westmount, Montreal, QC.
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