Lifted from the Air-Britain book "Gifts of War" - Presented by the London Borough of Islington, whose Spifire Fund appears to have reached its objective around May 1942, Mk.
Vb (trop) ER206 was allocated to No.46 MU Lossiemouth on 29 August 1942 and passed on to No.43 Satellite Landing Ground at Leanach on 11 September. It was back with No.46 MU Lossiemouth on 1 October and despatched to No.215 MU Dumfries on 10th to be collected by No.3 Packed Aircraft Transport Pool at Newhouse-by-Motherwell seven days later. It was shipped to Gibraltar on 25 October, arriving on 9 November. After assembly and testing the aircraft was flown to North Africa and allotted to No.152(Hyderabad) Sqn at Souk-el-Arba. During the move to Constantine on 31 December ER206 tipped on its nose at the hands of Plt.Off G.Balcombe, who was unhurt, and the damage repaired on site. On 6 February 1943, the engine failed while on a sweep, and it crashed south of Pont du Fahs, Sgt.D.G.Boyce being unhurt. ER206 was struck off charge on 28 February 1943. The book has a small photograph of ER206 taken at Castle Bromwich.
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