page_title: List of surviving Supermarine Spitfires
section_title: United States
hierarchical_section_title: List of surviving Supermarine Spitfires / United States
caption_attribution_description: English: Spitfire Mk Vb BL628 "Marion", at the 2008 Oshkosh Air Show.
context_page_description: The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force along with many other Allied countries throughout the Second World War and afterwards into the 1950s as both a front line fighter and also in secondary roles.
  Many developing countries purchased Spitfires as industrial countries phased out propeller-powered aircraft in favour of new jet-engined machines. As these nations started to update their air forces many Spitfires and other Second World War aircraft were sold on the open market to individuals or for scrap. The aircraft in Hong Kong serving with the UK Colonial wings are a good example of the different means of disposal where they were simply bulldozed into the sea as part of the process to reclaim land from the water in order to lengthen the runway.
  Private collectors began to acquire Spitfire aircraft and a number went on to appear in movies and TV shows. These movie and TV appearances, in turn, helped to save a number of them from being scrapped. The Spitfire with probably the most movie and TV credits is a Mk.IX MH434.
context_section_description: Airworthy
  Spitfire F Mk.Ia P9374 (N92SQ). Owned by Ellenville LLC. Restored to airworthy condition by Historic Flying Limited, made its first post-restoration flight at Duxford on 9 September 2011, registered as G-MKIA. Previously owned by the Mark One Partnership LLC at Duxford Airfield. In July 2017 it was sold to a private owner in the United States with the register N92SQ. It wears the exact colours it wore flying with 92 Sqn from RAF Croydon when shot down on 24 May 1940, P9374 / -J, and it landed on the beach at Calais, France. It was flown by Flying Officer Peter Cazenove, who survived the crash and was taken prisoner by the Germans.  He was held in Stalag Luft III and involved in the Great Escape.
  Spitfire F Mk.Vb BL628 (N628BL). Owned by Lewis Air Legends and based at Encinal, Texas. It wears the markings BL628 / YO-D of 401 (RCAF) Squadron at RAF Gravesend, which it wore during 1942 as the personal aircraft of G. B. "Scotty" Murray. BL628 had the name Marion painted on the fuselage just forward of the cockpit after the pilot's girlfriend, and this detail has been faithfully replicated.
  Spitfire F Mk.Vb EP122 (N5TF).  Owned by Comanche Fighters, Texas. This Spitfire was built in 1942 and saw service in Malta with 249 Squadron, 185 Squadron and 1435 Squadron. The aircraft crashed landed on 27 March 1943 on the cliffside of  Dwejra Bay, Gozo and subsequently pushed over the cliff into the sea. The wreckage was recovered in the 1970s and flew in the UK with the civil register G-CISV.  It starred in the 2017 film Dunkirk. The plane was exported to the United States in 2018 and registered N5TF.
  Spitfire LF Mk.IXe MJ730 (N730MJ). Owned by Jerry Yagen and based at the Military Aviation Museum, Virginia Beach, Virginia. In April 1944 MJ730 was assigned to No. 417 Squadron RCAF, then operating in Italy. It flew 95 missions as an escort for American bombers over northern Italy. In June 1946, it was transferred to the Italian Air Force. In 1947, MJ730 was used in the film Thunderbolt!, directed by William Wyler. In 1951 it was sold to the Israeli Air Force, and after service ended up in an Israel playground. In the 1970s, a collector transported it back to Britain for restoration. FedEx founder Fred Smith bought it in 1986.
  Spitfire LF Mk.IXc MK959 (N959RT). Owned by the Texas Flying Legends Museum.
  Spitfire LF Mk.IXe SL633 (N633VS). Owned by John Sessions with the Historic Flight Foundation and based at Felts Field, Spokane Washington. A historic machine that has served with the Royal Air Force, the Czechoslovakian Air Force, the fledgeling Israeli Air Force, and finally the Burmese Air Force. It wears the markings of the Czechoslovakian Air Force as SL633 / JT-10 of the 4th Air Regiment.
  Spitfire FR Mk.XIVe NH749 (N749DP). Owned and operated by the Commemorative Air Force, based at Camarillo airport, Southern California. Built in late 1944 'NH749' was shipped to India in July 1945 to serve with the RAF's South East Asia Command (SEAC) squadrons. Rendered surplus to requirements by the Japanese surrender in August 1945 'NH749' was placed in storage and sold to the Indian Air Force in late 1947. In 1978 it was rediscovered and transported to England by the Hayden-Bailey brothers. After restoration to flying condition 'NH749' was sold to Keith Wickenden with the civil registration G-MXIV. 'NH749' was later sold to David Price's Museum of Flying in the United States and was operated from 1985 to 2005 when it was once again sold, this time to the CAF. It wears a SEAC colour scheme with the markings NH749 / -L.
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  Spitfire F Mk.Ia P9306 . On display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. It is a Battle of Britain veteran that flew with No. 74 Squadron RAF.
  Spitfire F Mk.Vc MA863. On display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio. It wears representative Operation Torch markings as MA863 / HL-B, 31st Fighter Group, 308th Fighter Squadron. Ex Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) A58-246, it served with 54 Squadron (RAF) in early 1944 as the pe
caption: BL628 on display at Oshkosh 2008
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