SPITFIRE SM520 1948-1951

The two-seater version of a TR9, this Spitfire helped train future pilots for the perils of airborne warfare

The Spitfire is almost ubiquitous when discussing Britain’s war in the skies during War World II. There were 22 different versions of the classic interceptor fighter built during the height of its time in the RAF. One of these was the SM520, a two-seater plane based on the TR9 model, which itself came from a Spitfire Mk IX. The conversion from one to two seats was a post-war program, with the first SM520 arriving in 1948. The project helped provide flight and gunnery practise for new recruits to the RAF, such as the Irish Air Corps (IAC) Seafire fleet and many other air forces in what was to become the Commonwealth of Nations. This particular model was constructed as a oneseater TR9 in a West Bromwich factory and was first…

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