Mark I

 
Status Abbreviations are as follows:
AW - airworthy, S - stored, M - museum, R - under restoration, U - unknown.
Other abbreviations used are:
BBMF - Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
BoB - Battle of Britain Film
IWM - Imperial War Museum
MU - Maintenance Unit
OFMC - Old Flying Machine Company
OTU - Operational Training Unit
HF - Historic Flying Ltd
Instr a/f - Instructional Airframe
THUM - Temperature and Humidity Flight
WOGB - Warbirds of Great Britain
Identity
Mark
Status
Comments
AR213
1
AW
1998 Victor Gauntlett. With PPS at Booker
Bought by Patrick Lindsay, kept at Booker
10.3.47 Sold to Alan Wheeler as G-AIST
30.11.45 Struck off charge
20.2.43 No 53 OTU
31.7.41 No 57 OTU
24.7.41 Delivered to No 12 MU
K9942
1
M
8.10.2000 Restored by Medway Preservation Society for RAF Museum
9.11.71 On display at RAF Museum, Hendon
28.8.44 No 52 MU for museum purposes
24.4.39 Delivered to 72 Sqn
P9306
1
M
1986 Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago
P9444
1
M
Science Museum, London
1993 Suspended from cables in the aviation gallery
5.4.40 Delivered
28.8.49 Allocated to display duties
16.12.54 Transferred to Science Museum, London
R6915
1
M
Imperial War Museum, London
1993 Suspended from Ceiling above main arena, IWM
26.8.46 Transferred to IWM, London
11.7.40 Delivered to No 609 Sqn via No 6 MU
X4590
1
M
1978 Battle of Britain Museum, Hendon
22.9.40 Delivered to 609 Sqn
24.2.41 To 66 Sqn
28.8.44 Allocated to Museum purposes
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