History:
RAE 7-6-41 Cv PRIII Type C later to PRV Special. RAE e/f belly landed Hatherden Hants CB 1-4-42 SqLdr CL Gomm safe. High alt trls 4-8-42 ETPS 19-11-42 air homing trls to BDU 4-43 eng change to Sunbeam Talbot returned RAE for cool trls and drag redn mods. Peterborough 6-43 for chemistry application trls left UK 12-6-43 for Gibraltar temp rating tests Flew Gibraltar-Maison Blanc Tripoli-Cairo Tripoli-Malta Algiers-Gibraltar. had jettison overload tanks. Farnborough 15-7-43 Flexi-tank trls in 8-43 Farnborough as comms a/c Recco trls with Spitfire IX 19-1-44 trls TR1996 radio from 6-44 used as Farnborough hack ACR trls with Firebrand EK670 20-11-46 VHF and SBA trls To RAF film unit Hucknall photos with Lancaster FM201 Spent most its service life at RAE and AAEE and still on charge in 1954
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Spitfire Production