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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire XVIe
    Last Military Serial:TE311 RAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-IX-4497
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire XVIe sn TE311...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby, Coningsby, Lincolnshire / Lincs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire XVIe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n TE311.

    1978


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1978 photo at Kidlington

    By July 1984

    Transferred to RAF Exhibition Flight, RAF Abingdon.

    18 July 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Chivenor Airshow

    20 September 1986


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Spitfire LF.XVIe of the RAF Exhibition Flight on display at the 1986 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    To Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby,.

    To The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby, Coningsby, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    13 December 2012

    3 May 2015


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Abingdon Country Fair

    3 May 2015


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Abingdon Country Fair

    3 May 2015


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Abingdon Country Fair

    19 July 2015


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: RAF Fairford, UK

    19 July 2015


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: RAF Fairford, UK
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