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Re. Spitfire TE518

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gck
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Re. Spitfire TE518

According to my info:
TE518 delivered by sea (not flown!) to Haifa around March 1949.
TOC summer 1949 as serial number 2027 with 101 Sqn.
2027 was written off 16-12-1953 when with 107 Sqn.
From ¨AirDOC ADP 02 – Israeli Air Force 107 Squadron¨ by Shlomo Aloni (ISBN 3-935687-60-5):
Sqn. 107 – OTU class 14 from 1-11-53 to 1-1-54:
Undergraduate Yitzak Yalon was killed on December 16 in Spitfire (20)27 during an OTU training sortie when he collided with the instuctor Ran Sharon in Spitfire (20)58.

Hope this helps.
George Kuntz