AR501’S POST-SERVICE DAYS

SPITFIRE AR501 The surplus Spitfire in use with the Loughborough College of Technology during October 1947. At right is another of its instructional airframes, Grumman Martlet AL246, which is now preserved by the Fleet Air Arm Museum. PETER R. ARNOLD COLLECTION After fifteen years at the Loughborough College of Technology — today Loughborough University — as an instructional airframe, AR501 became surplus to requirements. It and another airframe from the college, Sea Hurricane Ib Z7015, were handed over to the