ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 193500
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| Date: | Sunday 3 April 1949 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk IX |
| Owner/operator: | 335 Sqn RHAF |
| Registration: | TB539 |
| MSN: | CBAF. |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Gramos, Kerasovo area, Kastoria, Western Macedonia -
 Greece
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Larissa AB, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece |
TB539: Spitfire LF IX, built by CBAF (Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory) with Merlin M70 engine. To 39MU RAF Colerne, Chippenham, Wiltshire 1-2-45. To RAF Melton Mowbray 23-2-45. To 12FU (Ferry Unit). To 1OADU (Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit) 28-2-45. To MAAF (Mediterranean Allied Air Force) 5-3-45. To 93 Squadron in March 1945. To 43 Squadron 3-9-45 in Italy. 43 Squadron ended the war in Austria as part of the BAFO (British Armed Forces of Occupation) and was disbanded on 16-5-47. To 137MU, RAF Luqa, Malta June 1947. Converted to Spitfire HF. IX with Merlin M66 engine 29-1-48. Struck off RAF charge when sold to Royal Hellenic Air Force (RHAF) 27-5-48. To 335 Squadron RHAF in June 1948.
Written off (destroyed) 3-4-49 on combat operations: pilot took off from Larissa AB, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece for the execution of a combat mission to Grammos, Kerasovo area, Kastoria, Western Macedonia. Hit by anti-aircraft fire, the Spitfire fell to the ground and burned.
Crew:
F/O Georgios Liberopoulos /Lt Georgios Lymperopoulos (pilot) RHAF. KIA.
Gramos (Greek: Γράμος, Aromanian: Gramosta) is a remote mountain village and a former municipality in Kastoria regional unit, Macedonia, Greece. The village is a traditional Aromanian (Vlach) settlement, named after the nearby Gramos mountains to its south. It lies very close to the Albanian border
Sources:
1. https://aviationarchaeology.gr/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Supermarine-Spitfire-losses-in-Greece-1942-1953.pdf
2. https://polemikiaeroporiahaf.blogspot.de/search/label/Supermarine%20Spitfire
3. https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/TB539
4. https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=TB539
5. https://www.avialogs.com/spitfire-and-seafire-registry/item/80792-tb539
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._93_Squadron_RAF
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._43_Squadron_RAF#Second_World_War
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/335th_Squadron_(HAF)#Post%E2%80%93war_history
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramos,_Greece
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Feb-2017 09:07 | TB | Added |
| 08-Aug-2023 19:00 | Dr. John Smith | Updated |
| 09-Aug-2023 07:40 | Nepa | Updated |
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