Last action of the Spitfire.. - Aircraft of World War II

Seawitch · 08-26-2009, 03:32 PM

Hi all
I gather the Israeli's used the spitfire at Suez as late as 1956.....from the write up on a model kit I built as a boy mind!
Does anybody know more about this, perhaps the very last action of the Spitfire, was it here, or elsewhere?

Flyboy2 · 08-26-2009, 09:33 PM

You might want to check out this website
IAF v RAF
It will give you an overview of the IAF vs RAF actions in 1949, here's a few pictures

And this website has a nice painting
ISRAELI AIR FORCE FIRST DECADE 1948 - 1958

Seawitch · 08-27-2009, 11:18 AM

Thanks for this Flyboy, good reading and I dare say I was a bit taken aback!

glennasher · 08-27-2009, 12:30 PM

I'm not sure of the timeframe, but Spitfires were also used in the Malaysian campaigns (early '50s?).

Waynos · 08-28-2009, 11:02 AM

The final military sorties of the Spitfire were mock combats flown against RAF Lightnings in, if I remember rightly, 1962. They were brought temporarily out of retirement so that Lightning pilots could train against slower flying piston fighters as the RAF were preparing for the possibility of taking on Indonesian P-51's and fancied a bit of DACT, as it would now be called, beforehand. As far as I am aware this was the last time the Spitfire flew on military duty other than BBMF duties.

08-26-2009, 03:32 PM	#1
Seawitch Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: London Posts: 116	Last action of the Spitfire.. Hi all I gather the Israeli's used the spitfire at Suez as late as 1956.....from the write up on a model kit I built as a boy mind! Does anybody know more about this, perhaps the very last action of the Spitfire, was it here, or elsewhere? __________________ Probably the world's best aircraft... www.seawitchartist.com

08-27-2009, 11:18 AM	#3
Seawitch Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: London Posts: 116	Thanks for this Flyboy, good reading and I dare say I was a bit taken aback! __________________ Probably the world's best aircraft... www.seawitchartist.com

08-28-2009, 11:02 AM	#5
Waynos Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 914	The final military sorties of the Spitfire were mock combats flown against RAF Lightnings in, if I remember rightly, 1962. They were brought temporarily out of retirement so that Lightning pilots could train against slower flying piston fighters as the RAF were preparing for the possibility of taking on Indonesian P-51's and fancied a bit of DACT, as it would now be called, beforehand. As far as I am aware this was the last time the Spitfire flew on military duty other than BBMF duties. __________________ BlondeValkyrie - Bugger off and host your OWN pictures you thieving twat

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08-26-2009, 09:33 PM	#2
Flyboy2 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Posts: 651	You might want to check out this website IAF v RAF It will give you an overview of the IAF vs RAF actions in 1949, here's a few pictures And this website has a nice painting ISRAELI AIR FORCE FIRST DECADE 1948 - 1958

08-27-2009, 12:30 PM	#4
glennasher Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 83	I'm not sure of the timeframe, but Spitfires were also used in the Malaysian campaigns (early '50s?).