Another Spitfire flies from Biggin Hill

摘要

Keith Perkins' Supermarine Spitfire HF.IXe TD314 (G-CGYJ) returned to the air in the capable hands of Peter Monk on December 7 after being fully restored by The Spitfire Company (Biggin Hill) Ltd. The fighter was built at Castle Bromwich in 1944 and initially supplied to No.33 MU at Lyneham on April 2, 1945. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin 70 engine it also flew with 30 MU at Sealand, North Wales, and 6 MU at Brize Norton before being allocated to 183 (Gold Coast) Squadron based at Chilbolton, Hants, on June 24,1945. It then passed to 234 Squadron at Bentwaters, Suffolk, on July 26,1945.