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A Spitfire PR MK XIX at the "100th Anniversary of Dutch Military Aviation" airshow. She has just flown in directly from the UK. Although retaining her genuine serial, she is otherwise painted to represent "PS888" which carried out the very last RAF Spitfire sortie. - Courtesy of Alan Wilson (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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