Date:	Monday 3 February 1947
Time:	day
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk XVI
Owner/operator:	349 Sqn Belgisch Militaire Vliegwezen
Registration:	TB991
MSN:	CBAF.
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Beauvechain Air Base, Beauvechain, Wallonia -   Belgium
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Beauvechain Air Base, Beauvechain, Wallonia
Destination airport:

Narrative:
TB991; Spitfire LF.XVI, built at CBAF (Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory) with Merlin M266 engine. To 6MU RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire 27-2-45. Cat. B damaged; repaired on site 9-4-45. To 345 (GC II/2 'Berry') (Free French) Squadron 26-4-45. To 137 Squadron, RAF Warmwell 17-5-45. To 349 (Belgian) Squadron, coed 'GE-G' later 'GE-L' 24-5-45. To BAF pending delivery of Spitfire F.XIV 26-10-46. Although these aircraft were never Belgian owned, many of the Spitfires had their RAF roundels replaced by Belgian ones. 349 Squadron moved to Belgium and was disbanded as an RAF-squadron on 24-10-46 on transfer to the Belgian Air Force, keeping the number

On 26-10-46 (the same day): taken on charge by the Belgisch Militair Vliegwezen as TB991 coded 'GE-G' with 349 Squadron, Belgisch Militaire Vliegwezen. Aircraft wore the name "Liege" on the nose (see photo, link #5)

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 3-2-47 at Beauvechain Air Force Base, Beauvechain, Wallonia accident, Uneconomical to repair, Not returned to the RAF

NOTE: The name 'Belgische Luchtmacht' is officially introduced on January 15, 1949. Before then it was called 'Belgisch Militair Vliegwezen'.

1. https://www.belgian-wings.be/supermarine-spitfire-lf-16
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p109.html
3. https://www.avialogs.com/spitfire-and-seafire-registry/item/90657-tb991
4. https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/TB991
5. [photo: Supermarine Spitfire LF.16 TB991/GE-L "Liège" of N° 349 Squadron in flight in 1946]; https://www.belgian-wings.be/supermarine-spitfire-lf-16/tb991
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._345_Squadron_RAF#History
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._137_Squadron_RAF
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/349th_Squadron_(Belgium)#Royal_Air_Force_(1942%E2%80%9346)
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/349th_Squadron_(Belgium)#Royal_Air_Force_(1942%E2%80%9346)
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauvechain_Air_Base#Postwar/current

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Jun-2023 05:57	Peter Ziegler	Added
08-Jun-2023 17:26	Dr. John Smith	Updated
10-Jun-2023 15:39	Nepa	Updated
08-Sep-2023 20:41	Nepa	Updated