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RAF 'Polish Wing' Spitfire Mk XVI - TE311 - Shuttleworth Season Premier Airshow 2019

The RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk.XVIe, TE311, makes a wonderful sound with its Packard Merlin 266 engine as it briefly displays at Old Warden during the Shuttleworth Season Premier Airshow 2019. Spitfire TE311 is a low-back/bubble-canopy Mk XVI with ‘clipped’ wingtips. Some 58 years after it last flew, TE311 was put back into the air in 2012, having undergone a painstaking re-build to flying condition by BBMF technicians in their own time, which was started in October 2001. TE311 was built at Castle Bromwich and taken on charge by the Air Ministry on 8 June 1945 – a month after the war ended – and was delivered to No.39 MU at Colerne on 16th June 1945 and placed into storage. From 5th October 1945 to 17th February 1946, it was flown by the Handling Squadron of the Empire Central Flying School (ECFS) at Hullavington. Subsequently, after another period in store with No.33 MU Lyneham until 31st May 1951,when it was used by the No. 1689 Ferry Pilot Training Flight at Aston Down and Benson, until it received Cat.4R damage in a flying accident on 21st June 1951. Between 19th July and 13th December 1951 it was repaired by Vickers Armstrong and returned to 1689 FPT Flight on 31st December. The aircraft was transferred to the Flying Training Command on 31st July 1952 and then allocated to the Ferry Training Unit at RAF Benson on 9th April 1953. Returned to No.33 MU at RAF Lyneham on 23rd September that year it was then delivered to No.2 CAACU at Langham, Norfolk on 12th January 1954, before going back to No.33 MU at RAF Lyneham on 23rd February 1954 and then being grounded and transferred to non-effective stock on 13th December 1954 . On 8th August 1955 she was issued with Maintenance serial 7241M, before being placed on the main gate at RAF Tangmere from 11th August 1955 where she remained until 1967 adorned in a silver paint scheme. The aircraft was loaned to Spitfire Productions Ltd for the movie 'The Battle of Britain' and delivered by road to Henlow in 1967. For the filmi it was restored to taxiing condition and modified with a false rear fuselage to resemble a Mk.I and was then used at North Weald and Duxford during 1968 marked with serial N3321 & N3324 and codes AI-C, AI-M, DO-H. On 11th August 1968 it went to RAF Henlow and was returned to LF XVIe standard for display at RAF Benson. It was exhibited at the Battle of Britain Display on 20th September 1968 and then allocated to Abingdon as part of the RAF Exhibition Flight. During its time with the Exhibition Flight it was loaned to SERCO in Wolverhampton and to the Bayeux Museum in France where it was marked as MK178/66Sqn/LZ-V. In October 1999 – TE311 aircraft was transferred to the BBMF and dismantled for spares along with TB382. In 2004 restoration work began on TE311 until after 12 years of painstaking restoration TE311 made its first post restoration flight on 19th October 2012. At this point TE311 was painted as Spitfire XVI TB675 '4D-V', the aircraft of Squadron Leader Tony Reeves DFC, who was the Commanding Officer of No 74 Squadron in 1945. For the 2015 season invasion stripes were added as a reserve aircraft for the 70th Anniversary of D -Day. In February 2017 it’s paint was removed and replaced with a black undercoat in preparation for a new scheme, but it remained in undercoat for the 2017 season before emerging in March 2018 in the colour scheme that it wears today. These are the markings of an Spitfire from 131(Polish) Wing, coded SZ-G, flown by Group Capt. Aleksander Gabszewicz VM KW DSO DFC, between April and June 1945. Formed in April 1941 from two Polish Squadrons (302 and 303 Squadron RAF) the Wing was known as the 1st Polish Fighter Wing. Gabszewicz originally served as a Non Commissioned Officer in the Polish Army before the outbreak of World War Two and in 1938 was attached to the air wing of the Border Defence Corps. He is regarded by some as having downed the first German Aircraft over Poland in the Second World War - a Heinkel He 111 over Ciechanow. Gabszewicz came to the UK where he served in the ranks with 607 Squadron and 303 Polish Squadron. He later became Flight Commander and Commanding Officer of 316 Polish Squadron. With further postings to 11 Group HQ and later as an instructor with 50 OTU he was subsequently made Wing Commander of the 2nd Polish Wing and finally the 1st Polish Wing and also appointed as the Commanding Officer of RAF Coltishall in February 1945. Gabszewicz aircraft features a boxing bulldog. Some sources saying this was created by one of Gabszewicz's Ground Crew, Sgt Wojciech Milewski who was also a boxer. Other sources claim it was part of a series of insignias designed by Disney as part of the US war effort. Video and Audio content is Copyright © 2019 High Flight This video and audio material may not be reproduced in any form (except as the videos Youtube embedded video option on any other website), without written permission.