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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire 22
    Last Military Serial:PK481 RAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-00070
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire 22 sn PK481 RA...
    Latest Owner or Location:The RAAFA Aviation Heritage Museum, Bullcreek, Perth, Western Australia

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a Spitfire 22.

    3 September 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n PK481.

    1953

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    1955

    Placed on display with Brighton amp; Hove Branch of the RAF Association, England.

    1959

    Placed on display with Royal Australian Air Force Association, Adelaide Terrace, Perth.

    October 1969


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: The WA branch of the Air Force Association acquired this Spitfire F.22 PK481 from Britain and displayed it on a pole at their Perth city office in Adelaide Terrace from 1959. Photographed there in October 1969

    6 March 1971


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: When the AFA moved to a new estate in the Perth suburb of Bull Creek, their Spitfire was moved from the city to Jandakot Airport where it was refurbished and repainted in a hangar. Seen there in March 1971

    1972

    Placed on display with Mounted on A pylon Outside Raafas Headquarters, Bullcreek, Perth.

    1985

    Markings Applied: PK481
    Painted in camouflage colours and subsequently moved inside and into the North Wing for display as part of the Museum collection.

    To The Royal Australian Air Force Association, Bullcreek, Perth, Western Australia.
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    5 April 2014


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Aviation Heritage Museum of Western Australia in Bull Creek, Perth

    5 April 2014


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Aviation Heritage Museum of Western Australia in Bull Creek, Perth

    To The RAAFA Aviation Heritage Museum, Bullcreek, Perth, Western Australia.
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