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EN803 Spitfire V captured beute coded CJ+ZY was re- engined with a DB605-A1 wrknr coded 00701990. This was a production Me110G engine. Propellor was a VDM used on the Bf109G namely 9-12159 A . All electrics had to be changed because of 12V vs 24 V.

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It is Spitfire Mk.IIA P7666 servicing in the no. 41 and 54 Squadron RAF. The kite was flown by Squadron Leader D.O. Finlay. The aircraft carries the inscription OBSERVER CORPS below the cockpit, indicating it was one of the dozens, later hundreds, of funded Spitfires. In the case by the Royal Observer Corps. But the Spitfire didn't belong to any unit of the ROC.
Here she is while servicing in the 41 Squadron .. In the no. 54 Squadron she was converted to a Mk. Vb in 1941.

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