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c/n CBAF.8463. Built 1944 with the RAF serial ‘ML407’. Later converted to a two-seater for the Irish Air Corps and flew with the serial ‘162’ Now operated by Air Leasing Ltd and based at Sywell, she wore invasion stripes for the 2019 season and took part in a number of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. She is seen taking off to display at the 2019 Fête Aérienne Le Temps Des helices (Aerial Festival – The Time of the Propellers). Aérodrome de Cerny-La-Ferté-Alais, Cerny, France 9th June 2019 The following info is from the Flying Legends website:- “The Grace Spitfire ML407 was originally built at Castle Bromwich in early 1944 as a single seat fighter and served in the front line of battle throughout the last twelve months of World War II. ML407 flew a total of 176 operational combat sorties amassing an impressive total of 319 combat hours. Flying Officer Johnnie Houlton DFC who was accredited, whilst flying ML407, with the first enemy aircraft shot down over the Normandy beachhead on 6th June D-Day. ML407 was converted in 1950 to the two seat configuration for the Irish Air Corps as an advanced trainer. Design Engineer Nick Grace acquired ML407 in late 1979 from the Strathallan Museum and spent five years meticulously restoring the Spitfire to flying condition. After Nick Graces untimely death in a car accident Carolyn Grace took up the gauntlet of keeping this aircraft flying and now the next generation, being Richard Grace, is not only maintaining the aircraft but is flying the aircraft just as his late father had done.” |
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| Source | Supermarine Spitfire T.9 ‘OU-V’ [ML407] (G-LFIX) |
| Author | Alan Wilson from Peterborough, Cambs, UK |
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