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Spitfire F.01 was a Mk.I sent to France for trials and was subsequently captured by the Germans.

This was the only Spitfire NOT to have an RAF serial allocated to it (as far as I'm aware anyway)

This Spitfire, the 251st produced, was actually captured...?

It was given the B Condition marking N.21 for test flying, then 01, and the last picture has it coded FW8. Although reported as being burnt at Orleans to prevent it falling into German hands it does appear to have survived for a while in a delapidated state. There has (to my knowledge) never been any proof that the Germans took it on.


The 251st production aircraft, first flown 25/06/1939 with B class Reg No. N-21 direct from makers to France - arrived French AF and TOC as F.01 on 18/07/1939; At Orleans (marked "FWB"), burnt 06/1940; Remains captured by Germans 06/1940

Perhaps the first Spitfire to be captured?


French Spitfire I

In September 1938 two French Air Force pilots were allowed to fly the Mk I after France expressed official interest in purchasing the type and a manufacturing licence. Slow deliveries to the RAF and the deteriorating situation in Europe meant that the Air Ministry was reluctant to give up any of it Spitfires, but it eventually agreed to supply three examples to the French Air Force. This was later reduced to one example, and the 251st production aircraft was completed as 01 for the French Air Force and was supplied with a spare Merlin Ill. It made its maiden flight on May 25, 1939, going to France on July 18. It was the only Spitfire ever built directly for an export customer, all other deliveries being ex-RAF aircraft modified for foreign service. However, the soul French Spitfire I had a short career. When the German forces invaded France it was a Orleans and was to have been burnt to stop it falling into enemy hands. That it was not is supported by photographic evidence of the aircraft, minus propeller and cowling believed to have been taken in late 1940 or early 1941.

Spitfire F.01 was a Mk.I sent to France for trials and was subsequently captured by the Germans.

This was the only Spitfire NOT to have an RAF serial allocated to it (as far as I'm aware anyway)

This Spitfire, the 251st produced, was actually captured...?

It was given the B Condition marking N.21 for test flying, then 01, and the last picture has it coded FW8. Although reported as being burnt at Orleans to prevent it falling into German hands it does appear to have survived for a while in a delapidated state. There has (to my knowledge) never been any proof that the Germans took it on.


The 251st production aircraft, first flown 25/06/1939 with B class Reg No. N-21 direct from makers to France - arrived French AF and TOC as F.01 on 18/07/1939; At Orleans (marked "FWB"), burnt 06/1940; Remains captured by Germans 06/1940

Perhaps the first Spitfire to be captured?


French Spitfire I

In September 1938 two French Air Force pilots were allowed to fly the Mk I after France expressed official interest in purchasing the type and a manufacturing licence. Slow deliveries to the RAF and the deteriorating situation in Europe meant that the Air Ministry was reluctant to give up any of it Spitfires, but it eventually agreed to supply three examples to the French Air Force. This was later reduced to one example, and the 251st production aircraft was completed as 01 for the French Air Force and was supplied with a spare Merlin Ill. It made its maiden flight on May 25, 1939, going to France on July 18. It was the only Spitfire ever built directly for an export customer, all other deliveries being ex-RAF aircraft modified for foreign service. However, the soul French Spitfire I had a short career. When the German forces invaded France it was a Orleans and was to have been burnt to stop it falling into enemy hands. That it was not is supported by photographic evidence of the aircraft, minus propeller and cowling believed to have been taken in late 1940 or early 1941.

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