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Foto fra Duxford 2012 - Per Gram

Spitfire Flying Demonstration

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Spitfire Mk. Ia N3200, was produced at Woolston with final assembly at Eastliegh. Delivered to the RAF between September the 8th 1939 and January the 20th 1940. N3200 was the mount of Sqn Ldr Stephenson, CO of 19 Squadron Duxford and a pre-war Cranwell contemporary of Douglas Bader’s. Stephenson had also been a member of the Royal Air Force aerobatic team. He was shot down on Sunday, 26 May 1940, in Spitfire I, N3200, coded ‘QV’, while covering the evacuation of the Dunkirk beaches during Operation Dynamo, landing his fighter on the sands at the shoreline, and made a prisoner of war.

Multiple escape attempts led to his transfer to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle where he would participate in the creation of the never-flown Colditz Cock glider. Following the war, Stephenson served as the personal pilot for King George VI.