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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire LF.XVIe
    Last Military Serial:TE476 RAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-IX-4610
    Last Civil Registration:N476TE
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire LF.XVIe sn TE4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fantasy of Flight / Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire LF.XVIe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n TE476.

    30 June 1945

    Assigned to 39 Maintenance Unit, RAF Colerne, Wiltshire for storage.
    On Placed in storage at.

    19 October 1949

    Transferred to 33 Maintenance Unit, RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire.

    From 4 July 1951 to September 1956

    Transferred to Number 1 Civil Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit, Hornchurch.

    2 June 1970

    Transferred to RAF Northolt.
    Placed on display as a gate-guardian.

    15 May 1974


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Spitfire XVIe on display as the gate guardian at RAF Northolt in May 1974

    From 3 July 1989 to 1 February 1990

    To Historic Flying Limited, Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire with new c/r G-XVIB.

    3 May 1994

    To Personal Plane Services Ltd, Wycombe Air Park, Booker, Marlow keeping c/r G-XVIB.

    21 September 1995

    Civil registration, G-XVIB, cancelled.
    Exported to United States.

    11 January 1996

    To Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL with new c/r N476TE.

    Based at Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: GE D

    23 January 1996

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX476TE (SPITFIRE MARK XVI, TE476) issued.

    March 1997


    Photographer: Tom Roberts Collection
    Notes: Photographed at the Fantasy of Flight in Florida.

    5 November 1999


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Fantasy of Flight, Polk City FL

    18 August 2004


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, FL.

    18 August 2004


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, FL.

    18 August 2004


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, FL.
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