Belgian museum (Brussels?) Spitfire – hanging from the ceiling

Very nice Wiki link indeed!

RM873 <– actually RM747, not 873

I knew it was one or t’other – Spitfire Survivors gives both, but I just picked one of the serials!

RM689
RM694
RM797
RM873 <– actually RM747, not 873
RM921
RM927
RN201
SM832

The Mk.IX is a replica and hangs from the roof in one of the other halls within the Army Museum in Brussels. It is not in the same central hall as the two aforementioned machines (Mk.IX MJ783, and Mk.XIV MV246), it flies above the 1919-1944 Hall (Item 5 shown on the museum layout here –> http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/plan-map/map%20of%20the%20royal%20army%20museum.pdf)

The following link is a good place to start for surviving Spitfire information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Supermarine_Spitfires

That’s great, thank you. 🙂

RM689
RM694
RM797
RM873
RM921
RM927
RN201
SM832

(I missed one when I counted originally!)

I’ve not included Mk.XIV RN203, simply because it’s not a complete airframe. Presumably, though, it was also built as a high-back, so that would make it 8 airframes surviving.

Six, by my reckoning, of which two currently fly.

Do you have the serial no’s? 🙂 Thanks

Great to see a XIV on display, even if it is really a XVIII. There seems to be very few high back XIV survivors around. 🙁

Six, by my reckoning, of which two currently fly.

Lets not forget Overloon, NL

Now on indoor display is Spitfire XIV NH649. My photo dated Sept 2010
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Great to see a XIV on display, even if it is really a XVIII. There seems to be very few high back XIV survivors around. 🙁

I have a sneaky feeling this is a wild goose chase

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?34218-Spitfire-XVIII-TP285

Thanks for the update on the present Overloon a/c.
I would think that the Spitfires now in Museums and presently flying have a history that one can check.
Perhaps the Norwegian pilots example survived for a while after the war but was scrapped many years ago, along with many other a/c.

The Spitfire at Overloon is a Mk XVIII represented as a Mk XIV. Can’t be the one DCK is looking for.

Lets not forget Overloon, NL
Am I correct in saying that….
When on outside display (also a Harvard and B-25D FR193) they had Spitfire PR XI PL965.
This was traded and now this a/c has returned to flying condition?
Now on indoor display is Spitfire XIV NH649. My photo dated Sept 2010
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Also in Belgium at the Belgium AF Technical School at Saffraanberg was Spitfire LFIXe SM-29, exMK912. Replaced with an F104. My photo dated Aug 1970. A/C now in the UK?
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According to Spitfire Survivors in the Benelux are the following mk IX, XIV and XVI:

IX
MJ143 Soesterberg NL
MJ783 Brussels B
MK732 Gilze Rijen NL
XIV
MV246 Brussels B
RM921 Florennes B
XVI
TD135 Brasschaat B

Easiest way to check is if he can give you the serial.

Thanks for the replies. It doesn’t look like the Norwegian pilot was right concerning this museum. Perhaps he means another museum in the Be-Ne-Lux area.

The ones in the air section are real. The other one is a replica AFAIK.

MkIX

Mk XIV

2009:

According to their website they have a replica MkIX marked BS435.
The displayed MkIXc is marked GE+B MJ360 but is actually MJ783.