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The Aircraft Restoration Company's (Propshop Ltd.) 2 seater Supermarine Spitfire Mk. T IX, PV202, G-CCCA, conducting air experience flights at IWM Duxford on 2nd June 2021.

This aircraft was built as a single-seat LF (Low Flying) lX fighter at Castle Bromwich and delivered to the Royal Air Force at 33 Maintenance Unit, Lyneham as PV202 on 18/09/44.
It moved to 84 Ground Support Unit, Thruxton and then, on 19/10/44, entered service with 33 Squadron based at Melville, France carrying the codes 5R-Q. It went on to Maldegem, Belgium and returned to the UK on 14/12/44 at 84GSU, Lasham.
PV202 completed 20 operational sorties with ten pilots from Britain, Denmark, Holland and South Africa, during its service with 33 Squadron. A move between MU’s took it to 83GSU, Dunsfold in January 1945, before going to 412 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force at Heesch in Holland, where it carried Squadron codes VZ-M and VZ-W. The Squadron later moved to Germany, at Rhein and Wunsdorf forward operating airfields. On 04/05/45 Fg. Off. H.M.Lepard carried out the last of PV202’s 76 operational sorties with 412 Sqn. The Squadron returned to Dunsfold at the end of May and PV202 went to 29 MU at High Ercall for storage in July 1945.
In 1950 the aircraft was converted by Vickers-Armstrong to a trainer for the Irish Air Corps. Delivery to the IAC was on 15/06/51 as IAC161. In 1960 the IAC retired it's Tr.9's to the ground technical training school at Baldonnel, as instructional airframes. IAC161 was sold in December 1960, with three other TR9's, to Tony Samuelson, for the Battle of Britain Film Company. Two were made airworthy and used in the filming. IAC161 was never used, remaining in store at Cricklewood. In April 1970 the four TR9's were sold to Sir William Roberts. IAC161 was moved to Flimwell and later to Shoreham, before going to join Roberts’ 'Strathallan Collection' aircraft museum in Scotland.
In 1979 it and its sister aircraft IAC162/ML407 were put up for sale and went to Nick Grace, at St. Merryn in Cornwall. Grace kept IAC162 for himself and sold IAC161 to Steve Atkins at Saffron Walden.
Atkins later relocated to Sussex with the Spitfire. The aircraft was restored as a two seater with a modified rear canopy arrangement. On completion it flew from Bae Dunsfold on 23/02/90, wearing its 412 Sqn. colours as PV202 VZ-M. Atkins then passed ownership to shareholder Richard Parker, who operated her extensively on the airshow scene, until selling it to Rick Roberts on 14/07/92.
Roberts operated the aircraft extensively and during this time it suffered an undercarriage malfunction at its home base at Goodwood. Following repairs at Earls Colne it changed its colours to the earlier 33 Sqn. markings as 5R-Q. Roberts sold the aircraft in March 2000 to Greg McCarrach, for export to South Africa, but it was written off in a fatal accident at Goodwood on 8/04/2000, killing the new owner and his instructor Norman Lees.
Following the crash investigation at Farnborough, the aircraft's remains were bought by Karel Bos, owner of Historic Flying Ltd (HFL) and arrived at The Aircraft Restoration Company (ARCo) workshop at Duxford on 28/02/01.
A comprehensive rebuild was carried out by engineers at HFL. Karel Bos decided to present the aircraft in the colour scheme it wore when delivered to the IAC in 1951 and to convert it back to its original configuration with the bubble top rear canopy. The original rear canopy assembly was traced and acquired. A Rolls-Royce Merlin 66, correct for this mark, was rebuilt in America by Paul Szendroi of Universal Airmotive and replaced the previously fitted Packard 266 Merlin.
The aircraft was substantially complete by February 2004 and first engine runs were undertaken on the 27th of that month, but during ground testing it was found that an engine component had failed and it would require removal of the complete engine for the repair. IAC161 remained grounded for the rest of 2004 whilst a replacement component was sourced and the engine stripped and repaired in-house. Engine runs took place on the 3rd and 23rd December and a post restoration flight was made on 13th January 2005, in the hands of ARCo Managing Director and pilot John Romain.
In March 2007 the aircraft was painted in Royal Netherlands Air Force colours to represent ‘H98’, one of three Spitfire Trainers sold to the Netherlands in March 1948.
For the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, 2010 the aircraft appeared in livery to represent Spitfire X4474 of Duxford’s 19 Squadron, a late production Mk.1 flown by Sergeant Bernard Jennings during the Battle of Britain in September 1940.
In 2014, the aircraft was repainted once more into its current 33 Squadron RAF scheme, representing codes similar to those it wore during 1944.

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