25.06.2009, 20:07
Spitfire Mk PR XIX PS890 (F-AZJS)
Delivered to the PRU unit at RAF Benson in April 1945, it served with 542 and 81 Squadrons, before being sold to the Thailand Air Force in 1954. It was displayed in a museum in Bankopk, until being sold in 1999 to the Air Museum in Chino. As part of the rebuild, an ex-Shackleton Griffon engine was installed, and the contra-rotating props retained, a feature never used in previous Mk XIXs. Returned to the air in June 2002, ownership has passed to Christophe Jacquard, in Dijon, France.
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Delivered to the PRU unit at RAF Benson in April 1945, it served with 542 and 81 Squadrons, before being sold to the Thailand Air Force in 1954. It was displayed in a museum in Bankopk, until being sold in 1999 to the Air Museum in Chino. As part of the rebuild, an ex-Shackleton Griffon engine was installed, and the contra-rotating props retained, a feature never used in previous Mk XIXs. Returned to the air in June 2002, ownership has passed to Christophe Jacquard, in Dijon, France.
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