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Originally Posted by SEE
The Luftwaffe fitted a FI engine (can't remember which model but one that was already in service in one of their bombers) to a captured early Spit and, from the accounts I read, Luftwafe pilots really enjoyed flying it. I am pretty sure It was sent to the USA at the end of the war but was written off in an accident.
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Think you mean this one:
Spitfire Vb serial EN830 / NX-X fell into German hands late in 1942. It crash landed on November 18th 1942 while being flown by P/O (Sous Lt.) Bernard Scheidhauer of the Free French Air Force, attached to 131 "County of Kent" Sqn. RAF. He and his No.1, P/O Henri de Bordas, had been on a "rhubarb" to Normandy during the afternoon. EN830 was hit by light flak and made a forced landing in a turnip field at Dielament Manor, Trinity, Jersey.
After a brief period at Rechlin the modified Spitfire returned to Echterdingen to serve officially as a test bed. Its career ended on 14th August, 1944, when a formation of US bombers attacked Echterdingen.
The remains of the hybrid Spitfire were scrapped at the Klemm factory at Böblingen.