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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire LF.XVIe
    Last Military Serial:RW388 RAF
    Construction Number:CBAF-IX-4646
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire LF.XVIe sn RW3...
    Latest Owner or Location:RJ Mitchell Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Spitfire LF.XVIe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n RW388.

    To RJ Mitchell Museum, Stoke-On-Trent, Stoke-On-Trent, England.
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    Markings Applied: U4-U

    13 November 1973


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: RW388/U4-U - Spitfire LF.XVI - Potteries Museum, Stoke Delivered to 667 Squadron in August 1945, RW388 also served with 612 Squadron before being withdrawn in 1952. Used in the Battle of Britain film made in 1968 and preserved at the Potteries Museum in Stoke in honour of the RJ Mitchells home town

    May 1984


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Photographed at the Potteries Museum, Stoke on Trent, UK in May 1985.

    12 April 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Spitfire at the R;J. Mitchell section of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery at Hanley in the Potteries in the UK

    12 April 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Spitfire at the R;J. Mitchell section of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery at Hanley in the Potteries in the UK

    12 April 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Spitfire at the R;J. Mitchell section of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery at Hanley in the Potteries in the UK

    26 March 2022


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Photographed at the Potteries Museum, Stoke on Trent, UK on 26 March 2022.


    Photographer: Richard Hladik
    Notes: Taken a RAF Colerne ca 1955 wearing the codes of the Fighter Command Control and Reporting School
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