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QuickCheck: Was the Royal Air Force's last Spitfire mission over Johor in the 1950s?

By TAN YI LIANG
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)

Is this story about the sunset of one of World War II's most famous fighter planes true, or is it a tall tale flying high?

Verdict:

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