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History[]

Requested as part of a Mk VC order submitted on 12 May 1942 under contract B197813/39,^[2] MB945 was built at Chattis Hill as a PR XI, with c/n 4875, between July and 7 October 1943, when it made it's first flight at Benson. Passed to the USAAF on 30 October,^[3] the aircraft was assigned to 7 PRG, 14 PRS, based at Mount-Farm. Flown by Lt. Franklyn I. Van Wart on 1 March 1944, ^[4] the aircraft was reported as lost in the English Channel,^[3] but was actually captured by the Germans, repaired and flown as part of Zirkus Rosarius as T9 + BB.

Notes[]

↑ Known to Supermarine as either Type 365 (Production) or Type 374 (Converted Mk IX).^[1]

Sources[]

↑ Morgan, Eric B and Edward Shacklady. Spitfire - The History. 2000. ISBN 0 946219 48 6 Page 387
↑ Morgan, Eric B and Edward Shacklady. Page 399
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Morgan, Eric B and Edward Shacklady. Page 400
↑ http://www.mysliwcy.pl/forum/watki.php?id=472&ustaw=ge

[2] Known to Supermarine as either Type 365 (Production) or Type 374 (Converted Mk IX).^[1]

[Spitfire_History_p387-1] Morgan, Eric B and Edward Shacklady. Spitfire - The History. 2000. ISBN 0 946219 48 6 Page 387

[Spitfire_History_p399-3] Morgan, Eric B and Edward Shacklady. Page 399

[Spitfire_History_p400-4] 3.0 ^3.1 Morgan, Eric B and Edward Shacklady. Page 400

[5] ttp://www.mysliwcy.pl/forum/watki.php?id=472&ustaw=ge

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