Spitfire F Mk.22 - Syria - 1956
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According to Spitfire International, the Syrian Government signed a contract on 26th January 1953 with Vickers-Armstrongs for the supply of 20 Spitfire Mk F-22. The aircraft were overhauled and refurbished at Gatwick. Six aircraft were to be ready for shipment on 31st of May 1954 and the balance in two batches on 30th June 1954 and 31st July 1954. They were given Syrian serial numbers 501 to 520. Later in March 1955, the Royal Rhodesian Air Force sold seven Mk 22s ( serials SR60, SR65, SR67, SR80, SR87 and SR88) but the order was never completed.
Some went to a scrapyard at an airfield near Damascus around 1960, but 14 still existed around 1967. Four near Damascus and ten in the desert, north of the city. Eventually only one Spitfire survived, fate and location unknown. PK658 (Syrian No. 504) reported near Damascus probably in the 1980s
