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Spitfire 1953

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Spitfire 1953
Submitted by 80sKid. View the original image on Flickr.
Authors: 
HIstoryBuff6
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RAF
Spitfire VN485
VN485

great shot of VN485, now in a museum

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Thursday, January 1, 1953
Gallery: 
1950s Hong Kong
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Submitted by Bob Tatz on Sun, 2014-10-19 12:00.

This looks very much like the annual camp that the Auxies were engaged in at Sek Kong. I was engaged in pre-flight servicing of our aicraft, which consisted of Harvards, Austers, and Mark XVIII Spitfires. There was one Mark XXIV Spitfire, but it was still in the original shipping crate from England. The RAF was operating Vampires from the same runway, which at the time was PSP. Those were great days! I wonder if anybody would like to comment.

Submitted by davwil on Sun, 2017-02-19 00:08.

My stepfather George Bain was a pilot with the RHKAAF and flew Austers, Harvards and Spitfires, inc.VN485, in the early 1950s, at Sek Kong.