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Spitfire JL361

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model: Vc
factory: CBAF
engine: M45

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R-RH Cv LFIX M66 18-4-43 RAE 6-8-43 SU carburetter trials 9-43 weather trials AAEE 3-44 Rotol Staverton prop pitch indicator install. trials with SU carburetter until 4-44 achieved 418mph at 21000ft RAE Benito trials with JL227 ASTH 20-11-45 29MU 27-3-46 RNoAF 31-7-47

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by: Adrian Dwyer Additional history 2021-05-19 08:09:02

Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXc (Serial No. JL361), A-CD (later FN-D/AH-D). This aircraft was the oldest of the Spitfires brought to Norway, being initially built as a Mk VC, it was transferred to Rolls-Royce to be converted to one of the first of the Merlin 66-equipped LF IXc's in April 1943. Having spent its wartime service life as a test aircraft at Boscombe Down and Farnborough, it was one of the Spitfires bought in 1947 to equip a third fighter squadron but subsequently used as replacement aircraft for the two existing units.
From the Harold A. Skaarup site
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