History[]
Ordered from Castle Bromwich, as one of 2,100 Mk VC aircraft, on 28 May 1942, as the ninth order of Contract B981687/39/C.23(c),[2] MK698 was completed as a Mk IX, and passed to 9 Maintenance Unit on 5 April 1944, before being assigned to 313 Squadron on 3 May. After being sent to Miles Aircraft Limited on 18 July, MK698 was transferred to 401 Squadron on 31 August, before failing to return from operations,[3] when it was damaged by Bf 109s south of Wesel - the pilot, P/O CWH Glithevo, became a Prisoner of War. Following repairs, repainting and recoding, the aircraft joined Zirkus Rosarius, and was based at Hannover - Wunstorf in January 1945. The aircraft's subsequent fate is unknown.[4]
Notes[]
Sources[]
- ↑ Treasure Bunker
- ↑ Morgan, Eric B and Edward Shacklady. Spitfire - The History. 2000. ISBN 0 946219 48 6 Page 606
- ↑ Morgan/Shacklady. Page 357
- ↑ http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aviation/spitfires-luftwaffe-3473-4.html