Mark VII & VIII

 
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
EN474
7
M
1986 Smithsonian Institute, Washington
USAAF evaluator as 161522, FE-400
JF294
8
M
1986 Displayed at SA National Museum of Military History
South African Air Force as 5501
MD228
8
S
Robert Eastgate, Melbourne.
RAAF A58-445
MT719
8
AW
1993 Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Texas N719MT
May 1989 At Duxford with Reynard Racing as G-VIII
1986 Franco Actis, Turin as I-SPIT
1977 Found in Jaipur, India and bought by Osmond & Wensley Haydon-Baillie 
Indian Air Force instr a/f T17
17 Sqn RAF Burma
June 1944 Delivered to 9MU and shipped to Bombay
MT818
8
AW
1986 Jack Erikson, Oregon as N58JE
1976 Sold to John Fairey
1952 Sold to Viv Bellamy
Used by Vickers Armstrong as demonstrator - UK Reg G-AIDN
Sep 1946 Converted by Vickers to prototype Tr8
Feb 1945 Returned to Vickers
June 1944 delivered to the Controller of Research & Development at High Post then Farnborough
MV154
8
AW
Dec 1995 Robs Lamplough & Pete John, Filton
1995 The Aerial Museum, North Weald
1993 Coded as MT928 G-BKMI
1989 Restoration by John Hart, Bristol
1979 Sold to Robs Lamplough as scrap
1961 Marshall Airways, Bankstown Aus.
6.9.49 Sydney Tech College
Sep 1944 delivered to 6MU
MV239
8
AW
May 2000 Acquired by David Lowy and in the Temora Aviation Museum, New South Wales, Australia,  on extended loan.
29.12.85 Airworthy as VH-HET with Col Pay, Australia
1983 Sold & restored for ground runs only
1961 Sid Marshall, Bankstown AUS
1949 Sydney Tech College
19.7.45 RAAF as A58-758
March 1945 delivered to 6MU
NH631
8
AW
1997 Indian Air Force Historic Flight
1986 IAF Museum Delhi
8.10.82 Restored to AW for IAF Golden Jubilee
22.4.67 IAF Museum, Delhi
31.12.47 IAF
19.2.45 9 Sqn IAF, Bombay
17.12.44 No 6 MU Brize Norton
U1
8
U
B Coran, Melbourne
Composite airframe displayed as R6915 but that aircraft is a Mk 1 in the IWM London
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