I’ve just been sent this photo of a Spitfire in the Drill Shed at RAF West Kirby in the early 1950s. It was taken by Maurice Taylor. The logical identity for it is our old friend AR614 but I was under the impression that ‘614 was always fitted with a three-bladed prop.
So the question is – which one is this :confused: :confused: :confused:
By: David Burke - 4th December 2006 at 09:32
Fascinating – thanks for that!
By: G-ORDY - 3rd December 2006 at 22:19
Have a look around the West Kirby website David (if you haven’t already done so) – there’s a lot of information there and the guys that run the association are very obliging.
By: David Burke - 3rd December 2006 at 20:20
I would be interested to know where the drill shed was at RAF West Kirby as I used to wander around the site when I was young and only managed to find the foundations of the various barrack blocks.
By: Mark12 - 3rd December 2006 at 20:15
One of the group issued to No 4 School of Technical Training at St Athan in 1948…and Padgate is not too far from West Kirby. It would be nice to pin it down exactly wouldn’t it! Any idea what became of it Mark?
Its interesting that MK732 & ML427 would have been at St Athan at the same time as TB544 and they managed to survive.
Sold for scrap as ‘Lot 4’.
Last seen chopped in two, minus wings, in the scrap yard of ‘Henry Bath’ in March 1957.
Mark
By: G-ORDY - 3rd December 2006 at 20:08
Four blade propeller and the universal air intake – a Mk IX.
Most likely candidate is TB544, one of the several ‘Unmarked Silver Spitfires’ that circulated around various RAF intake/training establishments in the 1950’s and for some years at RAF Padgate
Mark
One of the group issued to No 4 School of Technical Training at St Athan in 1948…and Padgate is not too far from West Kirby. It would be nice to pin it down exactly wouldn’t it! Any idea what became of it Mark?
Its interesting that MK732 & ML427 would have been at St Athan at the same time as TB544 and they managed to survive.
By: Mark12 - 3rd December 2006 at 18:10
Four blade propeller and the universal air intake – a Mk IX.
Most likely candidate is TB544, one of the several ‘Unmarked Silver Spitfires’ that circulated around various RAF intake/training establishments in the 1950’s and for some years at RAF Padgate
Mark
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December 3, 2006 at 11:34 am