Glass framed very rare to find nice size airframe section with brown camouflage paintwork remains very clear to see from RAF Spitfire number P9469 shot down on 7th October 1940 which crashed in Hurst Green in Battle of Britain

This is a glass framed very hard to find nice size section of aluminium airframe with some of its original brown camouflage paintwork and all clean aluminium colour still very clear to see it still retains a lot of its original colours and is wonderfully clean it has ripped and bent when the plane crashed but is very solid it has been very well cleaned and is perfect for display or any collection and rare to get parts like this from a battle of Britain spitfire. It has been mounted in to a glass fronted box frame with plane and crash information and pictures one is of the pilot in this spitfire the frame is 13 half inches by 13 half inches in size.This airframe part was recovered from RAF Spitfire number P9469 shot down on the 7th October 1940 over Sussex during the battle of Britain. A lovely relic from a battle of Britain Spitfire.

RAF Spitfire number P9469 of 222 squadron was shot down at 4.50pm on 7th October 1940 the pilot was Pilot Officer J.W Broadhurst.

The spitfire was in combat during an attack on enemy bombers. When he was shot down. John William Broadhurst bailed out but fell dead at Longhurst. His Spitfire crashed and burned out at Baileys Reed Farm, Hurst Green, Salehurst. He was posted to 222 Squadron at its reformation at Duxford on October 5th 1939. Initially equipped with Blenheim’s, the squadron received Spitfires in March 1940. On May 29th,after patrol over Dunkirk, Broadhurst failed to find Hornchurch in bad visibility, ran out of fuel and crash-landed. On August 31st Broadhurst claimed a Messerschmitt 109 destroyed, on September 4th a Messerschmitt 109  a and two more on the 7th and 27th of September. John William Broadhurst was 23 years old he is buried in Hornchurch Cemetery, Essex. Below photo J.Broadhurst in his Spitfire taken some tine in early 1940.

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