SUPERMARINE Spitfire (N219AM)

Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk. XIX N219AM at Chino, California on May 16, 2004. It was built in 1944. It was formerly Royal Air Force PS890P. It was transferred to the Royal Thai Air Force as U14-27/97 in June 1954. King Bhumibol of Siam donated it to the Air Museum at Claremont, California in 1962. It was restored to flight by the Planes of Fame Air Museum in June 2002. It has been retrofitted with a Rolls Royce Griffin engine sporting a six-bladed counter-rotating propeller. The engine was formerly mounted on an Avro Shackleton.