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Help – looking for Photographs Spitfire Vs AR501-510

I am researching the wartime histories of Spitfire Vc AR510 to 510 and am looking for copies of any photographs of them during their wartime use.

With two exceptions they were delivered to operational squadrons July – September 1942 and of the ten, four survived the war – main squadrons/bases of interest as follows:

AR501
July 42 – July 43: 310 sqn Exeter
Oct 43 – Feb 44: 312sqn Ibsley

AR502
July 42 – Nov 42: 310sqn Exeter

AR503
July 42 – April 43: 310 sqn Exeter
April 43 – July 43: 504sqn
Jul 43 – Oct 43: 165sqn
Oct 43 – May 44: 308sqn

AR504
Aug 42 – Jul 43: 312 sqn Ibsley
Jul 43 – Jan 44: 504sqn

AR505
Sep 42 – Apr 43: 19sqn Perranporth
Apr 43 – Nov 43 402sqn

AR506
Jul 43 – Aug 43: 131sqn

AR507
Oct 42 – May 43: 132sqn
Jul 43 – Aug 44: 611sqn

AR508
Aug 42 – Sep 42 – 610sqn

AR509
Oct 42 – Mar 43: 310sqn
Jul 43 – Nov 43: 611sqn

AR510
Jan 43 – May 43 – RAAF 2 OTU, 24sqn, 452sqn

Any help greatly appreciated – the final use is intended for publication and any reproduction fee would be passed back to the supplier.

Cheers
Andrew

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By: Dora-9 - 7th June 2008 at 14:22

Thanks both for the leads

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By: antoni - 6th June 2008 at 19:31

There is a photograph of AR503 NN*Q in No 310 Squadron 1940-1945, Tomas Polak, ISBN 2-9526381-1-X

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By: svas_volunteer - 6th June 2008 at 13:12

AR501 is ‘our’ spitfire based at Old Warden with the Shuttleworth Collection, see www.shuttleworth.org for details and i’m sure the experts on here can help you further.

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