Spitfire Database
+ the pilots who flew them
| Serial | Pic | Model, Factory | Notes (click note to toggle full text) | |
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| LR688 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 2-6-43 879Sq 11-43 Cosford to Hawarden 8-5-44 768Sq Abbotsinch/Ayr 4-45 Caught No.8 wire prop tipped barrier 'HMS Ravager' Cat SS 9-4-45 SubLt CR Thomas. Taxied into notice board damaged prop Cat LQ 6-6-45 Lt G Ogil... ... | ||
| LR689 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 2-6-43 15MU to ATA Kirkbride 12-6-43 887Sq Belfast 'H5S' 6-43 Hook bounced hit barrier broke back 'HMS Unicorn' Cat Z 27-8-43 SubLt HA Foote (RNZN) safe | ||
| LR690 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 3-6-43 Christchurch 4-6-43 880Sq from 13-8-43 899Sq 11-43 887Sq swung off peritrack port wheel sank in soft ground nosed over Belfast 3-2-44 SubLt DA Gibson | ||
| LR691 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 31-5-43 880Sq from 20-8-43 Low wind speed hook pulled out into barrier 12-9-43 SubLt GH Blacker (RNZN) 807Sq 1943/4 808Sq landed to port into walkway Cat Y 21-1-44 SubLt BAN King 879Sq attd 4SAAF 6/7-7-44 879Sq 'HMS... ... | ||
| LR692 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 3-6-43 842Sq 7-43 880Sq from 20-8-43 879Sq landed after op missed wires into barrier 'HMS Attacker' Cat Z 15-8-44 Lt JG Hornshaw. Jettisoned | ||
| LR693 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 9-6-43 Heston Aircraft Ltd for prop vibration tests Christchurch to Hawarden 13-8-43 886Sq Burscough Collided NM929 during wing air exercise crashed 2 1/2ml N of Carnforth Cat Z 11-11-43 SubLt RA Colbeck (RNZN)+ | ||
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| LR694 | Seafire-IIc, West |
Rotol Staverton 11-6-43 (prop vibration tests 3-blade props) 33MU to Christchurch 13-8-43 809Sq mistook water for runway bad visibility burst tyre rudder torn Burscough Cat X1 23-12-43 SubLt RD Wood 809Sq hit barrier 'HM... ... | ||
| LR695 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 11-6-43 775Sq taxied into petrol bowser 29-5-45 SubLt J Willgoss | ||
| LR696 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 11-6-43 Kirkbride to Donibristle 19-7-43 897Sq Heavy landing damaged tail oleo 'HMS Unicorn' Cat X 27-8-43 SubLt WS Donnelly (RNZN). Ran off runway into soft ground nosed over Burscough Cat X2 7-11-43 SubLt IWE Litt... ... | ||
| LR697 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 11-6-43 880Sq 'HMS Stalker' 842Sq 7-43 897Sq 30-7-43 to 12-43 Floated into barrier 'HMS Unicorn' Cat X 20-8-43 SubLt B Razzall 798Sq Lee-on-Solent 6-45 Lee-on-Solent store overshot runway o/t 9-2-46 L/C MW Rudorf | ||
| LR698 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 11-6-43 Kirkbride to Donibristle 19-7-43 809Sq 8-43 'HMS Unicorn' hook failed to lower ordered to land Salerno beach Cat Z 10-9-43 SubLt JT Basley safe | ||
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| LR699 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 18-6-43 RNARY Coimbatore 1-44 889Sq 4-44 Flew into drogue 'HMS Atheling' Cat X2 27-7-44 SubLt GA Bowser RNARY Clappenburg Bay 8-45 1700A Flt Trincomalee until 1-46 | ||
| LR700 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 19-6-43 897Sq 8-43 809Sq 8-43 834Sq 10-43 | ||
| LR701 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 19-6-43 Passage to Gibraltar badly damaged in hangar during gale 'HMS Hunter' 4/5-8-43 880Sq 'HMS Stalker' Halton to Machrihanish by Lt Mogridge (806 Sqn) 4-2-46 | ||
| LR702 |
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Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 25-6-43 809Sq 8-43 834Sq 'Z' Heavy landing port u/c collapsed 'HMS Battler' Cat X1 23-2-44 Lt DAE Holbrook. Retd Durban late 1944 | |
| LR703 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 25-6-43 809Sq 7-43 887Sq 9-43 to 11-43 761Sq Henstridge 7-44 to 2-45 Taxied into tail of Spitfire BM453 6-8-44 SubLt JA Marriott. Swung stbd tailplane hit glim lamp 26-8-44 SubLt FG Swann. Tyre burst landing nosed u... ... | ||
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| LR704 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 25-6-43 879Sq 12-43 Bounced over wires into barrier 'HMS Attacker' Cat Z1 19-9-44 SubLt WA Clarke safe | ||
| LR705 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 25-6-43 834Sq 'Y' port wing WO stbd wing damaged in hangar during gale 'HMS Hunter' 4/5-8-43 887Sq 11-43 807Sq 1943/4 | ||
| LR706 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 26-6-43 879Sq 'HMS Attacker' 8-43 Salerno ops engine overheating landed 'HMS Hunter' then retd 'HMS Attacker' badly damaged 10-9-43 SubLt RJH Grose | ||
| LR707 | Seafire-IIc, West |
15MU 30-6-43 887Sq Heavy landing 'HMS Unicorn' 27-8-43 SubLt TD Lucey 809Sq Tail oleo hit round-down landing 'HMS Battler' 9-9-43 SubLt TD Lucey. Tested Yeovilton store 11-4-44 809Sq floated into barrier 'HMS Stalker' 20... ... | ||
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