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* recent pilots updated

F/O Gordon Gillean McLean

from: Canada Ontario Hamilton ... details
update: 2025-11-09

F/O Henry James Stuart O'Brien

from: Canada Quebec ... details
update: 2025-11-09

F/O John Campbell Younge

from: Canada Alberta ... details
update: 2025-11-09

F/L William Sawers

from: Canada ... details
update: 2025-11-09

S/L Geoffrey Harris Augustus Wellum

from: United Kingdom Essex Walthamstow ... details
update: 2025-11-09

F/O Maurice Cooper

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-11-08

W/C Jerzy Poplawski

from: Poland Gostynin ... details
update: 2025-11-06

S/L Nikolaos J Kechrimparis

from: Greece Karpenisi ... details
update: 2025-11-02

F/O Donald Walter Lambie

from: Canada ... details
update: 2025-10-29

F/O Muthukumarasami Balan

from: India Tamil Nadu Cuddalore ... details
update: 2025-10-28

W/O John Alois Kravec

from: Slovakia Smilno ... details
update: 2025-10-28

F/Sgt Edwin Dewitt Moye

from: USA USA ... details
update: 2025-10-25

P/O Henri Jeanne Paul Delabastita

from: Belgium Lueven ... details
update: 2025-10-23

F/L Józef Feliks Mierzejewski

from: Poland Warsaw ... details
update: 2025-10-22

P/O Ludwik Alfred Martel

from: Poland Piotrkow Trybunalski ... details
update: 2025-10-22
 
* recent aircraft updated

VP484

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP485

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP486

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP487

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP488

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP489

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP490

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP491

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP492

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP493

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP494

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP495

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VR961

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VR962

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VR963

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27
 
* recent comments & questions

So the only actual part of this relic, needed to revive this particular a/c and it's serial would have been the original data plate, which c ...

on: aircraft, 2025-10-22 ... details

Image!

I have a colourised image of MK940 and Jozef alongside this aircraft ...

on: pilots, 2025-10-21 ... details

Also the tailplane is intact, I can't see how it would be if it landed inverted. I'll look through the possibilities of the last digit bein ...

on: aircraft, 2025-10-17 ... details

maybe

remains a mystery, yes, it could be ER 723 if it landed just so, too bad there is no date on the back the original picture. Curious what th ...

on: aircraft, 2025-10-13 ... details

https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=ER723 ...

on: aircraft, 2025-10-13 ... details

Looking again at the picture I see the R/T mast still in place. Unless the Germans stuck it back in the hole after it was turned back. ...

on: aircraft, 2025-10-13 ... details

This Spitfire looks like it was turned back to the right way up owing to the wing. Two wings the same side. The Germans would of wanted to l ...

on: aircraft, 2025-10-13 ... details

Surviving 600 Sqn member

My good friend Peter Lovegrove was a pilot on 600 Sqn at this time, he was delayed by a fuel leak when the Sqn departed for Thorney Island f ...

on: aircraft, 2025-10-13 ... details