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F/L Douglas Mercer

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2024-11-01

W/O Lawrence Victor Knight

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2024-11-01

W/O Denys Mitchell

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2024-11-01

F/O Donald Alastair Porter

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2024-11-01

Capt Douglas Wilfred Lee

from: South Africa Johannesburg ... details
update: 2024-11-01

P/O Edmund Harold Fairfield

from: Canada ... details
update: 2024-11-01

W/C Peter Prosser Hanks

from: United Kingdom York ... details
update: 2024-11-01

W/C Henry Gordon Goddard

from: United Kingdom Newton Harcourt ... details
update: 2024-11-01

F/O Eric Hodgson Woodhouse

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2024-11-01

F/L William Robertson McRae

from: Scotland Aberdeen ... details
update: 2024-11-01

F/O Charles Edward Filmer

from: United Kingdom London ... details
update: 2024-11-01

Sgt James Alan Frisby

from: USA Wichita Falls ... details
update: 2024-11-01

Sgt Edward Frank Horton

from: Canada ... details
update: 2024-11-01

Capt Frank John Montgomery Meaker

from: South Africa ... details
update: 2024-11-01

F/L Raymond Frederick Baxter

from: United Kingdom Redbridge Ilford ... details
update: 2024-11-01
 
* recent aircraft updated

TE289

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE290

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE291

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE292

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE293

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE294

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE295

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE296

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE297

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE298

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE299

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE300

stats: LFXVI Desford M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE301

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE302

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE303

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27
 
* recent comments & questions

From the Grandson of the Photographer Lo

In regard to the photographer's role, Dr. Robert Silverman was a dentist in the U.S. Army 32nd Station Hospital at the time. This note is fr ...

on: aircraft, 2018-11-14 ... details

MT818 was in Holland that day along with Spit TB885 to fly two US War Veterans for a flight over Arnhem and Veghel for a Operation Market G ...

on: aircraft, 2018-10-03 ... details

Oregon?

Just today 16-09-2018 I saw a spitfire with serial MT818 on EHLE, Lelystad Int. Airport, the Netherlands. According to bystanders, this pla ...

on: aircraft, 2018-09-16 ... details

Pilot's Log Book

R B Johnson was my uncle and I have been researching his experiences whilst serving with 222 Sqn in the BoB. When I was 15 he sent me a gra ...

on: pilots, 2018-09-16 ... details

This particular Spitfire bore the squadron code KL-A, it's replacement and namesake Spitfire X4650/G-CGUK KL-A survived the war and can be f ...

on: aircraft, 2018-09-11 ... details

TE294 dedicated to Roseland, not flown b

although TE294 (now known as the Rosland Spitfire) was never flown by F/L A. Roseland, Vintage Wings of Canada has restored this aircraft to ...

on: pilots, 2018-09-07 ... details

BS344

At the 9th of April, 1943, John McAndrew Brodie piloted this aircraft. He was victorious against one FW190 , 15 miles NW from Bizerta, Tunis ...

on: aircraft, 2018-08-08 ... details

Some additional history

The tradition of using a question mark to denote the squadron commander’s personal aircraft was established two years before Cyril West as ...

on: aircraft, 2018-07-26 ... details