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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire PR.XI
    Last Military Serial:PL965
    Construction Number:6S-504719
    Last Civil Registration:N965RF
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire PR.XI sn PL965...
    Latest Owner or Location:Spitfire Inc Owner Trustee, Wilmington, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire PR.XI.
    This is the one that got away. Was on outside display from 1960 - 1986 (!). It was then traded for Spitfire XIV HS649 and restored back to flying condition. First flight after restoration in 1992.

    From By 1960 to Circa 1986

    To National Oorlogs en Verzetsmuseum (National War and Resistance Museum)-Liberty Park, Overloon, Noord-Brabant.
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    July 1975


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Photographed at Overloon, Netherlands in July 1975

    1985


    Photographer: Han de Ridder

    1985


    Photographer: Han de Ridder

    22 July 2000


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: RIAT at RAF Cottesmore 2000

    27 August 2002

    To Spitfire Inc Owner Trustee, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N965RF.

    22 October 2002

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX965RF (SPITFIRE MK PR XI, 6S-504719) issued.

    Circa January 2004

    Assigned civil registration: G-MKXI

    To Spitfire Inc Owner Trustee, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N965RF.

    13 February 2004

    Civil registration, N965RF, cancelled.
    Exported to Great Britian.

    April 2004

    Returned to the UK.

    9 July 2004


    Photographer: Didier Kories
    Notes: Spitfire PR MK.XI taken at Koksijde airshow Belgium

    Taken on Strength/Charge with s/n PL965.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-MKXI.

    To unknown owner with c/r N965RF.

    Markings Applied: PL965

    By 14 July 2007

    Markings Applied: PL965, R

    14 July 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2007 Fly-In at Breighton

    20 June 2009


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Visitor to 2009 Air Britain Fly-In at North Weald

    19 August 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: at 2012 Sywell Airshow in the UK

    19 August 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: at 2012 Sywell Airshow in the UK

    19 August 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2012 Sywell Airshow in the UK

    10 June 2018


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: RAF Cosford, UK
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    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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