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Originally Posted by winny

As it is in the book..

N3277 485 FF 5-01-40 MU 15-01-40 243s 15-4-40 reported shot down nr IoW, Was dam and f/ld in cherbourg france, 15-8-40 P/O Hardy PoW a/c had daimler benz engine fitted.

The only Spitfire i know of, which was fitted a Daimler Benz engine was
Spitfire Mk.Vb NX-X EN830, 131 RAF "County of Kent" Sqn.



EN830 Spitfire Mk.Vb (Merlin 45)
TOC/RAF 1.5.42
No.131 Sqn force-landed on Jersey after air combat 18.11.42 (P/O B. Scheidhauer, Free French Pilot)
Sent Messerschmitt factory Augsburg and to Stuttgart-Echterdingen in 12.42 (test flown by Willy Ellenrieder)
Armament & radio removed, 24-volt electrical system and DB601 engine installed
To E-Stelle Rechlin, marked 'CJ+ZY';
Comparison trials with Bf 109G in 1943
Technical failure 27.4.44
Destroyed on ground at Echterdingen by an USAAF bombing raid on 14.8.44; Wreck scraped at Klemm company Böblingen.

NOTE: P/O Scheidhauer took part in the Great Escape, but was recaptured at Saarbrücken, and shot dead by the Gestapo on 29 March 1944, along with 50 members of the Escape.