K9791

Supermarine Spitfire Ia

MarkIa
FateUnknown
Lost17 August 1940
A Supermarine Spitfire (representative type, not this airframe)
Representative photo of a Supermarine Spitfire — not this individual aircraft.
ⓘ licence & creditAirwolfhound / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spitfire_-_Season_Premiere_Airshow_2018_(cropped).jpg

Notes

Spitfire Mk I K9791 was held as a reserve and trials aircraft, including cannon mock-up work, gun-firing trials, De Havilland propeller trials and overload fuel-tank trials. It later received a Merlin XII and served with the Photographic Development Unit at Benson before failing to return from operations on 17 August 1940.

Operations flown

Non-operational flight — Failed to return

Crew: J D T Taylor-gill (Other)