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| Description | A Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX and a Spitfire Tr9 flypass. The two-seat Spitfire Tr9 is owned by champion aerobatic pilot Doug Brooker and is painted in the desert colours of the Spitfire flown by New Zealander Squadron Leader Colin Gray, in 1943. Colin Gray joined the RAF in 1939 from NZ and he was an ace by the end of the Battle of Britain. By mid-1943 he was leading a fighter Wing and had personally gained 27 victories. The Mk IX and was built in September 1944 and served in the final stages of the war with the Royal Air Force in northern Italy. After the war it served with the Italian Air Force before being sold to the Israeli Air Force. After three years in Israel it was refurbished and sold to the Burmese (Myanmar) Air Force for use in their border war with the Nationalist Chinese. Its final flight was in July 1956 and it then spent 26 years as a gate guardian at a Burmese Air Force Base. it went on to become a key fighter in the Battle of Britain and maintained its position as a frontline fighter throughout WW2. It was used in a wide range of roles from fighter, bomber escort to photographic reconnaissance and in all 22,000 Spitfires were built. (<a href="https://www.wings.org.nz/aircraft" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.wings.org.nz/aircraft</a>) |
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| Source | Iconic Spitfires... |
| Author | Geoff McKay from Palmerston North, New Zealand |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Geoff J Mckay at https://flickr.com/photos/129472387@N07/51033731271. It was reviewed on 5 December 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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