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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire LF.IXc
    Last Military Serial:3W-1 KLu
    Construction Number:CBAF-IX-0907
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire LF.IXc sn 3W-1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Nationale Militaire Museum, Former Soesterberg Air Base, Soesterberg, Utrecht

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire LF.IXc.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n MJ143.

    Transferred to 485 Squadron.

    Transferred to 66 Squadron.

    17 June 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Netherlands Navy with s/n H-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Royal Netherlands Air Force with s/n 3W-1.

    From 4 June 1954 to By 1960

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Royal Netherlands Air Force.

    Assigned to Gilze-Rijen AB for storage.

    From March 1960 to By 1968

    To Aviodrome, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland.
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    June 1968

    To Militaire Luchtvaart Museum, Kamp van Zeist, Soesterberg, Utrecht.
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    Markings Applied: H-1

    3 April 2011


    Photographer: Joop de Groot
    Notes: 2011 photo taken at Militaire Luchvaart Museum, Kamp van Zeist, Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo displayed with written permission of Joop de Groot

    2014

    To Nationale Militaire Museum, Former Soesterberg Air Base, Soesterberg, Utrecht.
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    2014

    Placed on display.

    9 April 2019


    Photographer: Johnny Comstedt
    Notes: In Nationaal Militair Museum, Soesterberg, Netherlands 9. April 2019.
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