Air_Supermarine Spitfire_MJ772

G-AIDN and the two-seat Supermarine Spitfires
Delivered to RAF Lyneham as a single seat Mk IX in December 1943, MJ772 served with 340 and 341 Squadron RAF, and was converted for the Irish Air Corps to Trainer IX configuration in July 1950, numbered as IAC 159. The Irish Air Corps sold it to Film Aviation Services Ltd and then to COGEA as a target towing aircraft. It appeared in the 1969 Guy Hamilton film "The Battle of Britain", for which it was extensively restored, and after a couple of sales, was acquired for the Champlin Fighter Museum, Mesa, Arizona, USA in 1974. It remains airworthy, but as a slightly odd-looking single seat Spitfire, as the rear cockpit has simply been blanked off.

Delivered to RAF Lyneham as a single seat Mk IX in December 1943, MJ772 served with 340 and 341 Squadron RAF, and was converted for the Irish Air Corps to Trainer IX configuration in July 1950, numbered as IAC 159. The Irish Air Corps sold it to Film Aviation Services Ltd and then to COGEA as a target towing aircraft. It appeared in the 1969 Guy Hamilton film “The Battle of Britain”, for which it was extensively restored, and after a couple of sales, was acquired for the Champlin Fighter Museum, Mesa, Arizona, USA in 1974. It remains airworthy, but as a slightly odd-looking single seat Spitfire, as the rear cockpit has simply been blanked off.