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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire IX
    Last Military Serial:MH367 RAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-5487
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-WDQ
    Latest Owner or Location:Lasbrook Holdings Limited, Auckland

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    Dates

    Event

    July 1943

    Constructed as a Spitfire IX.
    Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX built with a Merlin 61 engine

    From 5 August 1943 to July 1948

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n MH367.

    July 1948

    Damaged.
    In a landing accident.

    July 1948

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    From Circa August 1948 to Circa 1988

    To Flowers Scrapyard near Chippenham, UK.

    Circa 1990

    Discovered by Tim Moore of Skysport Engineers who was scouring the yard for parts for a Beaufighter restoration. - the remains of the Spitfire were taken back to Moores workshops in Bedfordshire.

    Peter Godfrey, an Englishman living in Florida, approached local Spitfire rebuilder, Harry Stenger, about getting a Spitfire project underway. Harry took on this project and combined components from several Spitfires including the a two seat conversion parts from ML417 and wings from BR601 along with the mortal remains of MH367 and a fuselage manufactured by Dick Melton to produce a completely restored Mark IX, MH367.

    From November 2006 to 9 January 2008

    To unknown owner with c/r N367MH.
    The new aircraft was painted in the markings of Major Robert Levine of the USAAF as flown by him in Tunisia.

    May 2008

    To Lasbrook Holdings Limited, Auckland with c/r ZK-WDQ (Spitfire Mk IX, CBAF 5487).
    Re-painted in the colour scheme / markings of the Mark IX Spitfire flown in the North Africa campaign by Sq/Ldr Colin Gray, NZs highest scoring Ace.

    30 May 2015


    Photographer: Peter Mole
    Notes: At Ardmore, North Island, New Zealand
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