Finding visuals...
  • The Locator
  • Airframes Database

    Social media...
    Follow AV on facebook
    Follow AV on Twitter @aerial_visuals
    Follow the AV YouTube Channel

    Site navigation...
  • Home
  • Desktop Calendar
  • The Racers
  • FAQs
  • About Aerial Visuals
  • Comment on this Dossier
    • Search For Airframes Now
    Search - Index - Gallery - Reports - Lists - AV Needs You!

    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Supermarine Spitfire
    Latest Model:Spitfire FR.XVIII
    Last Military Serial:HS687 IAF
    Construction Number:6S-672224
    Last Civil Registration:D-FIII
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Spitfire FR.XVIII sn HS...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fliegerhorst GMBH and Co KG in Eschbach, Germany

    EDIT THE HISTORY HERE    		 If you can add to the history or would like to submit a correction please use the editor to do so.

    UPLOAD A PHOTO    		 If you have a photo of this airframe to share then use the photo upload tool.
    The Airframes Database depends on user contributions to stay current.
    If you have any news about this airframe or photos which you would like to share please do so
    by using the links above.
    The more you and others share the better the database becomes!

    Dates

    Event

    May 1945

    Constructed as a Spitfire FR.XVIII.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n SM845.

    February 1946

    Transferred to RAF South East Asia Command, India.

    Circa October 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Indian Air Force with s/n HS687.

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Dumped at Kalaikunda AB in the 1970s.

    1978

    To unknown owner.
    Salvaged and shipped to the USA.

    To Historic Flying Ltd in Audley End (UK) with new c/r G-BUOS.
    Returned to UK for restoration.

    7 July 2000

    First post-restoration Flight.

    19 July 2003


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: In the 100 Years of Flight enclave at RIAT Fairford.

    3 May 2008


    Photographer: robert roggeman
    Notes: EBAW.FLY IN.

    2 April 2009


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Photographed at Duxford, UK on 2 April 2009.

    25 May 2009

    To Biltema Group with new c/r SE-BIN.

    21 August 2010

    Crashed.
    Crashed on landing at the Tynset Aiport in Norway. The pilot perished in the crash.

    12 November 2012

    To Richard Lake/Spitfire Ltd, Sandown, UK with new c/r G-BUOS.

    17 December 2013

    First post-restoration Flight.

    19 July 2015


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: RAF Fairford, UK

    9 July 2017


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye

    December 2020

    To Fliegerhorst GMBH and Co KG in Eschbach, Germany keeping c/r G-BUOS.

    By 2022

    To Fliegerhorst GMBH and Co KG in Eschbach, Germany with new c/r D-FIII.

    2 September 2022

    Civil registration, G-BUOS, cancelled.
    Transferred to Germany.

    26 May 2023

    Damaged.
    Sustained substantial damage when it was involved in a landing accident at Hildesheim Airport (EDVM ), Germany.
    This dossier is waiting for review by an editor.This airframe dossier is based on
    unreviewed imported data.
    If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Aviation Safety Network
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Swedish Transport Agency
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Tell Others About this Airframe Dossier
    Forum Link: [URL=https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=4903][IMG]/home/users/web/b1393/nf.aerialvisuals/public_html/AV/Support/Logo_20x20.jpg[/IMG]Aerial Visuals - Airframe Dossier - Supermarine Spitfire FR.XVIII, s/n HS687 IAF, c/n 6S-672224, c/r D-FIII[/URL]
    Direct Link: https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=4903
    Copyright 1993-2025 www.m.AerialVisuals.ca
    The Aerial Visuals pages are best viewed with a screen at least 800 pixels wide.
    In case you are wondering Aerial Visuals is a huge fan Google Chrome. If you do not have Chrome installed why not?
    Aerial Visuals requires cookies and Javascript to function correctly. Please ensure these features are enabled in your browser.
    Aerial Visuals is powered by Netfirms.