• Aircraft:

  Supermarine Spitfire XVIIIE

• Reg: HS986 photos
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• Airline: India - Air Force
• Photo Date: Mar 11, 2020
• Uploaded: May 07, 2020
• Delhi Indira Gandhi Int'l Airport - VIDP, India

Restored Spitfire on display at IAF Museum Palam in the markings of the Advanced Flying School (AFS) based at Ambala. The chakra worn by RIAF aircraft from 1947-50 has replaced the roundels. The IAF received Spitfires in Oct. 1944 and a number of variants were taken on charge from the RAF to equip fourteen squadrons and flying schools. After Hurricanes, the entire RIAF fighter force was equipped with Spitfires by mid-1946 before the Tempest II was inducted.

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Aircraft

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