Ordered 19 April 1944. Built at Castle Bromwich, in August 1945. In March 1946 issued to No. 501 Squadron (County of Gloucester), Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Filton. In 1951 placed in storage at Cosford. In 1953 transferred to Lyneham. Later that year, to No. 3 CAACU Exeter, where it was painted silver and coded '43'. In August 1955, transferred to No. 33 Maintenance Unit. Wingtips, guns, and sight were refitted and recorded as TE 425, and used in the war film "Reach for the Sky." Transferred to No. 47 Maintenance Unit, Sealand, in preparation for dispatch to New Zealand. To museum in 1956.

Ex N8R, SL721. Registration cancelled on 21 July 1977 on sale to the USA as N8WK. It later became N721WK, later operated by Vintage Wings of Canada as C-GVZB, and sold to Belgium in 2018 as OO-XVI.

Static display aircraft from the Royal Air Force Exhibition Flight. Passed to the BBMF in 1999 and restored to flying condition in 2012.

Assigned to the Royal Air Force Exhibition Flight based at Abingdon. Used as a travelling exhibit. To the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in 1999. Restored to flying condition in 2012.

Delivered to the RAF as RW386 in 1945. Displayed at Halton from 1957. Moved to St.Athan in 1980. Sold as G-BXVI in 1984 then SE-BIR in 2007 and LN-BSP in 2021.

Gate Guardian at St. George's Chapel (RAF Chapel of Remembrance), RAF Biggin Hill. Replaced with a FSM in 1989 and placed in store for the RAF Museum, last reported at Stafford in 2022 and identified for onward loan.

Providing a contribution from the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight to the 2016 Shuttleworth Fly Navy Air Show.

The fuselage of Bill Francis' Spitfire on loan to the HAM and recently arrived at the time of the photo. Bill purchased the aeroplane from Pinewood Studios in 1968 with a view to restoration. It was used for cockpit shots in "Reach for the Sky" and for spares at Henlow for "Battle of Britain". Bill moved it to the garden of his bungalow in Hampton Gardens, Southend, later loaning it to the HAM after partial restoration. It moved with Bill to Southam in 1977. In 1982 it was sold to Stephen Gray, becoming G-CDAN. Subsequently restored to flight as ZK-XVI, VH-XVI. Current in 2022 marked as TB863.

Gate guard at the now closed RAF Uxbridge. Used in the Battle of Britain movie in 1968. Subsequently sold off and returned to the air in July 1991 as G-XVIA. Then sold to the USA and registered as N382RW in 1995. Destroyed in 1998 when it flew into a canyon wall in cloud. Bits were then shipped back to the UK and rebuilt as a high back Mk IX with a RR Merlin instead of a Packard Merlin, rounded wingtips instead of clipped and a smaller rounded rudder. Now flying as G-PBIX in USAAF colours coded WZ-RR.

Under restoration to flight after decades on the ground; G-CDAN was a wartime veteran (TB863) and had later been used in a non-flyer in the 1955 movie "Reach for the Sky". From 1972 it was displayed at the Historic Aircraft Museum, Southend until this closed and it was sold into private hands. On completion of its restoration to flight, the aircraft was shipped to New Zealand in October 1988 for Tim Wallis/Alpine Fighter Collection at Wanaka, registered as ZK-XVI. In 2006 it joined the Temora Aviation Museum, Temora, NSW, Australia, taking up civil registration VH-XVI.

Standing guard at the RAF Memorial Chapel as 8392M, with Hurricane IIC LF738. Replaced with a FSM in 1989 and placed in store for the RAF Museum, last reported at Stafford in 2022.