08/31/2007. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "The aircraft was built at Eastleigh as a Spitfire F.Mk.IA, and powered by an 1,030 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin III twelve-cylinder V-type engine, it was first flown on February 20, 1941. It was subsequently converted to a PR.Mk.IG (pictured here in an overall natural metal paint scheme with a red/white/blue spinner), to a PR.Mk.IV, a PR.Mk.VA and a PR.Mk.VIIG before it was shipped to Canada on February 10, 1943. It was retired from the RCAF in 1947."