Fleet Air Arm aircraft fates

The late Ray Sturtivant…
Having done a little research before posting my last post, I did include on a reply that disappeared before I could send it that there was a lovely picture of two Spits from 759NAS escorting an (unidentified) Fw190 in FAA A/C 1939-1945 (page 380 in my copy). The far Spitfire is R7193 Y1M, and the closest is…L1096, Y2W.
And (seeing as Derbyhaven left out a tiny bit of info in the above reply) it came to the Fleet Air Arm as a mark Va.

So presumably scrapped then.

Thank you Ivor

According to “FAA Aircraft 1939 to 1945”:
To RNDA 4.9.42; 885 Sqn Yeovilton 10.9.42 until 10.42; 887 Sqn Lee 1.43 – 2.43; 809 Sqn Stretton 3.43 – 5.43; RNARY Fleetlands, local Gosport 18.5.43; 759 Sqn Yeovilton (“Y2W”) 12.43 – 11.44; EF during aerobatics, FL on a/f 17.3.44 (Lt S Jewers); Tyre burst on TO, stbd oleo collapsed 12.8.44 (S/L CM Miseldine); To NEA at 39 MU 3.2.45.

Where would we be without Ray Sturtivant?

Hello guys – thank you. Yes, the serial is L1096

759NAS used Spitfires from June 1940 until October 1944 out of Yeovilton, and was, at that time, a fleet fighter school before becoming (from April 1943) an advanced flying school. It used Spitfires MkI, II, Va and Vb’s, which covers the vast majority of the type in FAA service.
Hopefully you have a serial…?

Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm 1939-1945 from Air Britain. I have a copy, do you have a serial number?