Here you go Darren, RW352, TE178 and TE241. With thanks to Frederick Galaea and Peter Arnold. These are listed in Volume II in the appendix “The Ones That Got Away” … over 500 of them … 🙁

Lovely shot G-ORDY, Mildenhall was it?

Yep

Hello all,
William Henry Stallard (“Jock” to his RAF buddies, “Harry” to his family, “Bill” to his wife and “Dad” to me) was a LAC (Airframes) working on this kite in the mid/late 40’s (flown by Battle of Britain hero “Ginger” Lacey and others), I’d like to find out when my Dad and YB-A were in the same places (he was in India, Burma, Ceylon, Singapore and Japan); the production schedule for RN135 is 6MU 8-1-45 222; MU 5-2-45; Empire Paragon 12-2-45; India 12-4-45; 17S Japan 28-9-46; SOC 24-3-48, so I’m looking at India and post war Japan operations.
I think he was with 7132SE but I’m still waiting on info from the RAF about his service record to confirm all his postings.
Anyone know how I can find out more specific info for the YB-A bird? Operational logs, maintenance logs – anything! Photos of course!
I know it’s a long shot but I have to ask.

Thanks for your help

Jim Stallard

Hi Jim

Try page 33 of this book by Alfred Price …

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=880o3Wwzn0MC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=spitfire+rn135&source=bl&ots=UoFAuSgcdS&sig=PU29Dqh_a7X9MVGub_v2P2QizLQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=meU-UojMC8au0wX0uIGwAQ&ved=0CH4Q6AEwCw#v=onepage&q=spitfire%20rn135&f=false

Amusing to think she was only 28 years old when I took this photo 41 years ago !

HI
I thought the photo’s on the site looked familiar, though not 100% sure but could these be ones taken of the rebuild of Spitfire IX EN199 in Malta during the 1990’s by Mike Eastman?
Looking at the shot of the “new U/C leg” the background looks very Maltese along with what looks like the stub part having been recovered from the sea.
Maybe Mike if he is around could comment?

Regards

Jason

Definitely all photos of the EN199 static restoration – perhaps Mike Eastman would like to comment – he is/was a contributor to this Forum …

G-ORDY -reading Tom’s account of the rebuild -it appears that a new fuselage and wing was built -tail feathers rebuilt and metal parts reused . Effectively that constitutes a new aircraft .

That’s the way of the World these days …

Meantime here’s a few more photos of her, two taken just after the Cape Record flight when she was displayed in Littlewoods Store in Oxford Street, another after her return from France – still in external Cape Record configuration (the long range gear had been removed at Gravesend in 1939), and the last one when she was unveiled at Old Warden in 1978.

Indeed ! They built a new one using this as a pattern!

Actually quite a lot of the original structure was incorporated by Tom Storey – I’ll look out my notes – mind you its had a few more crashes and rebuilds since then!