Seen as Sywell a 1943 Castle Bromwich built Spitfire LF.IXe MH415. On the UK register as G-AVDJ. Owned by Air Leasing Ltd. Operational during WWII with 129, 222 & 126 Sqns. After the war with the Dutch as H-108 and H-65 then Belgium as SM-40. Later Belgian civil register as a target Tug OO-ARD. Has stared in some movies including The Longest Day and the Battle of Britain. Moved to the USA in 1969 and was registered N415MH and painted into 222 Squadron markings as ZD-E. Into storage in 1973 Purchased in 2014. Shipped to Scone, Australia for long rebuild back to flying condition. To the UK 2020.

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'The Russian Spitfire.' Visiting Sywell for the 2021 opening of the Sywell Aviation Museum who had built the bomb racks and bombs for this aircraft. Built at Castle Bromwich and rolled out on 04 Aug 1944. Shipped to Murmansk by sea in Oct 1944. Joined the 2nd squadron, 767th Regiment, 122nd Division of the Soviet Air Force. Crashed over the Kola Peninsular on 18 May 1945 after a collision with another Spitfire. The pilot bale out. The aircraft only had about 18 hours on the clock. Registered as G-BYDE on 11 Nov 1998. To G-PTIX on 29 Jan 2018.

Scanned from a 35mm slide.

Preserved by No. 1 Squadron, RAF and has since been painted into more accurate unit markings.

At the time owned by Charles Church Displays.

This Spitfire on static display was part of the Fighter Collection at the time. To N2TF in December 2011.

Franco Actis was the owner of this unique Italian Spitfire