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Under Chief Engineer Dick Melton, the aeroplane was rebuilt into a two seat Spitfire and utilised the wings from another ex-Israeli Spitfire TE517. The remains were sold to upcoming Spitfire collector Charles Church and moved to his workshop in Hampshire in July 1984, where a return to flying condition was instigated.
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There were no wings, aft fuselage or tail section. At this point it consisted of the propeller hub, engine and front fuselage section to just aft of the cockpit. After a number of years the remains of the Spitfire were buried at the municipal rubbish dump until Duxford based collector Robs Lamplough tracked down its whereabouts and recovered it to his storage facility at Fowlmere, Cambridge on 10th May 1983.
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In 1976 the now derelict airframe was discovered with its faded 4 Sqn markings of “KJ-Z” showing through its dilapidated paintwork. The IAF later donated a number of airframes to various Kibbutz for display and 20-67 was given to Kibbutz Kfar-Gaza.
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The Israelis retired their last 16 remaining Spitfires in 1956 and 20-67 was ferried to IAI Lod for storage bearing the civilian registration 4X-FOM. The aircraft was now given the identity of 20-67 and carried the call sign code “67” on its fuselage side and served with 105 Sqn at Ramut David Air Force Base. Later sold to the Israeli Air Force it was flown out to the Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) plant at Lydda in April 1952.
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PT462 was stored at Treviso before being sold to the Italian Air Force on 26th June 1947 and later given the Italian serial number MM4100 when in service with 5 Stormo based at Orio al Serio, near Bergamo, to the east of Milan. The Sqn spent time in Yugoslavia, Italy and Austria before disbanding on 16th May 1947. Returned to the RAF on 5th January 1945 it may have seen further service in the hands of both 73 and 326 Sqns but by April 1945 it was being operated by 253 Sqn and coded “SW-A”.