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* recent pilots updated

F/O Robert Withington Pearson

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-12-08

W/C Colin Frank Mortlock Chapman

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-12-08

P/O Edward Hunter Brown

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-12-07

Kpt Stanisław Edward Zdanowski

from: Poland Warsaw ... details
update: 2025-12-07

F/O Julian Raymond Chapman

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-12-06

F/L James Frederick John MacPhail

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-12-06

S/L Herbert Norman Burrows

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-12-06

F/O Gordon Douglas Green

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-12-06

F/O Nicholas Richard Peel

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-12-06

F/O Jean Charles Carriere

from: Canada Quebec Quebec City ... details
update: 2025-12-06

1/Off Joan Emily Russell nee Nayler

from: United Kingdom London ... details
update: 2025-11-30

1/Off Victoria Millicent Cholmondeley

from: Australia Longford ... details
update: 2025-11-29

S/L Pieter Robert Marie Van Der Heijden

from: Netherlands ... details
update: 2025-11-29

3/Off Marie Jacqueline Agazarian

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-11-28

F/Sgt Wilfred Herbert Quinton

from: United Kingdom Norwich ... details
update: 2025-11-28
 
* recent aircraft updated

VP482

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

VP483

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

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
 
* 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