Warplanes of the UK: Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX

Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX

Supermarine Vickers Spitfire LF Mk IXc, RAF (Serial No. MH415), coded ZD-E,No. 222 (Natal) Squadron, RAF, Reg. No. N415MH.  Airworthy, after being refurbished by Air Leasing at Sywell.

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Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXb (Serial No. MH434), built at Castle Bromwich and first flown on 7 Aug 1943, later delivered to 222 Squadron at Hornchurch, Essex.  Reg. No. G-ASJV, previously SZ-G, "City of Warsaw", ZD-B, No. 222 Squadron.  A pilot of MH434 shot down a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in 1943.  Old Flying Machine Company, Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Airworthy.  Duxford.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk, IX (Serial No. MK356), No. 601 Squadron RAF.

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Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXe (Serial No. MK356), coded 5J-K, No. 126 Squadron RAF, previously coded 21-V, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire.  This aircraft was recently painted in a desert camouflage pattern to represent No. 92 Squadron RAF (Serial No. EN152), coded QJ-3, flown over Tunisia April - May 1943. S/L Mark Long was killed when MK356 he was flying crashed in a field in Lincolnshire on 25 May 2024.

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Supermarine Spitfire HF Mk. IXe (Serial No. RR232), "City of Exeter", Reg. No. G-BRSF, Martin Philips, Colerne, Wiltshire. Airworthy.

Supermarine Spitfire F Mk. IX (Serial No. EN179), Reg. No. G-TCHO, Martin Phillips, Exeter.  This aircraft is being converted to a two-seat Tr.9 configuration at Vintage Aero Ltd., Pent Farm, Kent.

Supermarine Spitfire F Mk. IX (Serial No. EN570), coded FY-J, Reg. No. LN-AOA, converted to two-seater by Biggin Hill's Spitfire Factory. Airworthy as of 22 April 2024. Notodden, Norwegian Flying Aces. Previously with No. 611 Squadron RAF, shot down over northern France on 11 June 1943, with the loss of F/O Gordon R. Lindsay. To be ferried to Norway.

Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXc (Serial No. LZ842), Reg. No. G-CGZU, EF-F, ex 327 Squadron, Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, Biggin Hill Airport, Westerham, Kent.

Supermarine Spitfire HF Mk. IXe (Serial No. MA764), Reg. No. G-MCDB, 122 Squadron, Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, Biggin Hill Airport, Westerham, Kent.

Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXc (Serial No. MJ271), Historic Flying Ltd, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.   Reg. No. G-IRTY.  Built in 1943 at Castle Bromwich, this Spitfire was flown on 51 combat missions.  Restored as "The Silver Spitfire", the first post-restoration flight took place in late June 2019 at Duxford.  Finished in polished aluminium, the owners, Boultbee Flight Academy,crossed 22 countries and four continents, and completed a circumnavigation of the earth in this aircraft on 5 Dec 2019.

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Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXc (Serial No. MK912), L-SH, Reg. No. G-BRRA, damaged, being restored, Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, Biggin Hill, Kent.

Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXe (Serial No. ML119), Reg. No. G-SDNI, G2 Trust, in storage, Buckinghamshire. Ex-Burmese Air Force UB441 and ex-Israeli Air Force 20-20. Currently at Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar to be restored to airworthy status.

Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXb (Serial No. ML295), project stored in Kent.

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Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXc (Serial No. NH238), H-60, NH238, G-LFMH, Reg. No. G-MKIX, Flying A Services, in storage at Greenham Common.

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Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXc (Serial No. ML427), HK-A, Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum.

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Supermarine Spitfire F Mk. IX (Serial No. PL344), coded TL-B (initials of the owner, Tom Blair), previously Reg. No. N644TB, G-IXCC.   Built in 1943, this aircraft will fly out of Northamptonshire with Air Leasing at Sywell.

Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXe (Serial No. PT879), Reg. No. G-PTIX, (previously G-BYDE), Peter Teichman, Hangar 11 Collection, North Weald, Essex.  Affectionately known as the “Russian Spitfire” due to her combat heritage flying with the Soviet Air Force during the Second World War, PT879 has completed her flight testing following a long-term restoration effort at Biggin Hill after her first flight on 28 Oct 2020.  This aircraft is the first Soviet Lend-Lease Spitfire to fly since the late 1940s.  She rolled off the production line at Vickers-Supermarine’s Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory near Birmingham on 4 Aug 1944.  That October, after flight testing, PT879 made the long journey by sea from Cardiff, Wales, to the Russian port at Murmansk.  Here she joined the 2nd squadron, 767th Regiment, 122nd Division of the Soviet Air Force, operating in the Murmansk region.  PT879 was involved in a collision with another Spitfire over the Kola Peninsular on 18 May 1945 with just 18 hours logged.  Inverted and in a flat spin, Lt Semyonov managed to escape his stricken Spitfire before she hit the ground.  In 1997, a recovery team moved PT879’s badly battered, but substantially complete airframe from the battlefield to St Petersburg.  Spitfire restorer, Peter Monk, acquired the wreck and brought her back to England.  Monk initially sold PT879 to Angie Soper in 1998, and she in turn passed the project on to Peter Teichman.  This Spitfire now wears the same livery PT879 wore in the Spring of 1945.

Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXe (Serial No. RK858), Reg. No. G-CGJE, Historic Flying Ltd, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.

Supermarine Spitfire HF Mk. IXe (Serial No. RK912), in storage at Duxford, Cambridgeshire.

Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXe (Serial No. SM639), in storage in the Surrey area.

Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXe (Serial No. TE517), Reg. No. G-RYIX, in Turkish Air Force colours. Previouslel G-JGCA, ex-Czech Air Force, ex-Israeli Air Force 20-46. Owned by Ali Ismet Ozturk, MSO Air & Space Museum, Sivrihisar, Turkey. Turkey operated Mk. IXs from 1947 to 1954. (Flypast)

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Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXe (Serial No. TE566), in storage at Kemble, Gloucestershire.

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Supermarine Spitfire HF Mk. IXe (Serial No. TA805), Reg. No. G-PMNF, FX-M, 234 Squadron, Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, Biggin Hill, Kent.  Airworthy.

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Supermarine Spitfire HF Mk. IXe (Serial No. TD314), coded FX-P, 234 Squadron, Reg. No. G-CGYJ, Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, Biggin Hill, Kent. Airworthy.

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